The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
MIKADO'S DEMAND ON KAISER

| Samoa are much smaller than the Ger.
man. strategetlcally they are mon
valuable. Tutuila contains only nry.
four square. miles and Manua ba,
twenty. Tutuila's great advantage al
the harbor at Pago-pago. The United
| States has the strongest, most deslr.
able naval station in the south Pacific
Across the channel from Nuutele. the
outermost German islst. the distapc.
10 Tutuila is forty miles.
or the Bismarck Archipelago n.
chief islands are Neupommern. Neulau.
enburg, Neuhannover, the Admiralty
Islands and the so-called French Ia.
ands. These islands lie eastward Q,
New Guinea. The area of the land
in the archipelago D. 1920 squar,
miles. The population is estimated e
| be about 200.0 900. The natives Papuans
were formerly cannbals. and some a.
them still are uncivilized The island,
export copra, and recently cotton ha,
been grown. TIL capital Herh.rishohe
Is on Blanche Bay, Neupommern. Or
Matupi Island in Blanche Bay 1.-THE Get
mans have a naval station.
Kaiser Wilhelm Land is strip Of
country about the size of the State o,
Kansas in the northeastern par, oil
New Guinea. When Germany. in 1856
acquired this neglected portion Of the
tropics the region was entirely savage
A great part of it is little improved
to-day. Kaiser Wilhelm Land 10
largely mountains and densely wooded
| Except along the kaiserin Augusta
| River, which is navigable, ii is df.
| ficult to penetrate the interior. The
| principal inducement to go there is the
gold found in the Bismarck Mountains
| The chief city of Kaiser Wilhelm
Land is Stephansort.
BY ties OF loyalty the Australia
Commonwealth is linked to Great
Britain. Yet 1t happens while Japan 10
| England's ally Australians entertain no
| friendly feeling for the japanese In
handling japanese difficulties" similar
| to those that troubled the United States
Australia displayed notable indepen-
dence. When official announcemenl
was made that japanese were not
wanted in Australia the commonweath
plainly intimated that any attempt Of
Great Britain ito interfere" would b
resented Australia's exclusion meas.
ures are more stringent that any cvei
suggested on the American Pacific
coast. Australians objections TO Japa.
nese are expressed In the laws Of the
commonwealth.
! For reasons, both racial and commeT-
cal, Australians would not care to see
Japan take German Samoa, the Bis
marck Archipelago and Kaiser Wilhelm
| Land. The desire. reported to have been
expressed by Great Britain. that Japa'
] aN0N.t Ag#u
! waters, possibly was prompted by Aus
| tralia.
| Australians are very DESTROYS OF help.
| ing the mother country in this wal
/ The navy of the commonwealth. ccn'
ssting OF the battleship Australia, me
cruisers Melbourne. sydney, Brishant
! Pioneer and Encounter and the DESTROY
ers Yarra, Paramatta, Warrcgo, swan,
J Derwent and Torrens, may be very busy
| in the Pacific.
1t is possible that Australia VIII
organize an expedition against the i'ls'
marck Archipelago and Kaiser W.lnc'm
Land. Papua, the British part of New
Guinea adjoining Kaiser Wilhelm Land,
is a territory of the commonwoaln'
! Australia took charge of Papua IN l90''
War fervor may move the Australians
to try To capture Kaiser Wilhelm lAhl
and the adjacent islands,
The first division of the Australian
i army, about 5000 men, is reported now
to be modified and ready to embark
Although Australia preferred to have
her own fleet, the Dominion OF NV
Zealand chose TO assist the defence
the empire by contributing hatue.
ship to the British navy. This armor"
vessel, named the New Zealand, com
pleted and assigned to duty in 1913
now supposed to be with the hr.tS'
battleship squadron in the North sea
The Federated Malay States, pro-
tectorate composed OF Perak, SeahsoI
Negri Sembilnn and Pahang on nv
Malay Peninsula, also voted Sll,5oooV'
To build British battleship This war
ship, called the Malaga. will be reaU
for service very soon.