AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1921, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.

TROUBLE WITH FORMOSA. MANDATES IN THE PACIFIC. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 6, 5.5 p.m. Tokio, Feb. 5. M. Kinkendo, a prominent Formosan, speaking at a public meeting here, declared on his honor that Formosa was threatened with disturbances ( as serious as those occurring in Korea. Formosans believed the Japanese were attempting to enslave them. M. Kinkendo presented a petition to the Diet asking for the reorganisation of the Japanese administration in Formosa. M. Tanaka announced that Japan .intends to reinforce the garrison in Korea with another division. An Oppositionist (M. Mochizuki) demanded information from the Government during a debate in the Diet on the differences between Japan and Britain relative to the administration of the ex-German islands in the Pacific, south of the equator. He referred to M. Uchida’s statement to the Diet that Britain maintained that the Versailles Treaty clause guaranteeing adherence to the principle of equal opportunity in mandated districts did not apply to the South Sea Islands. Japan took the contrary view, but tentatively accepted the British theory, reserving the right to resume negotiations and insist upon the Japanese rights in the islands wherever Britain had given a mandate.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.