AMERICA AND JAPAN.
DISPUTE OVER AN ISLAND. A CENTRE FOR CABLES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Feb. 5, 12.5 a.m. Tokio, Feb. 3. Viscount Uchida (Minister of Foreign Affairs) informed the Diet that Japan insisted from the beginning that she is entitled to the German rights and interests at Yap, and the same policy will be followed. He added that it was decided at Versailles to postpone consideration of the Yap question to another occasion, but the recent international communications between the conference and Washington had not succeeded in reaching a decision regarding Yap, and it was decided to refer the matter to the next conference. Viscount Uchida. answering an interpellation concerning the new “gentleman’s agreement” with the United States, said Japan had agreed on her honor to restrict emigration to the United States.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Yap is an island in the Pacific formerly belonging to Germany, and its importance lies in the fact that it is a junction of some of the most important cable lines crossing the Pacific.)
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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172AMERICA AND JAPAN. Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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