PACIFIC ISLANDS.
THEIR STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE. IN THE EVENT OF WAR. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 13, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 12. The Petit Parisien’s Washington correspondent states Japan’s mandate over German Islands in the Pacific would enable her to take all the American positions in a net of floating mines and submarines. Japan’s commercia l fleet could transport in a fortnight eight divisions fifteen hundred miles from the Japanese coast, and in that time from the opening of hostilities, she would have Guam and the Phillipines in her possession, leaving America with a little base at Honolulu. He envisages the possibility of a new war, which would ruin a quarter of the globe and greatly aggravate the present situation. If an agreement is not reached America should fortify Guam, which Japan would probably oppose, staking everything on the result. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1921, Page 5
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142PACIFIC ISLANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1921, Page 5
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