The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-14
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER l+, 1921
U. S. AND JAPAN AGREE ON TREATY

The controversy between tho United States .rnd .Iarau concerning mud..od islands in fine Pacific, has been settled through a treaty agreed upon Monday afternoon at the Far Fastcn conference
 American opposition to Japanese manda- tories in the Far East was not confined to the Island of Yap but to all of the islands in the Pacific ocean north of the equator which formerly belonged to Germany. These "gcms of the Oriental seas" of which Yap is onc aggregate l27 and are comprised in four groups. namely the CaroIincs with 62, the Marshall with 32 the Marianne tor Ladrone) with 9, and the Pelew with eight. They form kind of strategic semcircIe around the Philippines.
 While chief interest in the discussions of the Allied Communications Conference, which began in Washington on October s, 1920, to determine the aIlocation of these islands, has contcrcd in Yap by reason of it's importance as a cable station the problem of Yap was overshadowed by the larger international as poet of the control of all the 127 islands. The contention of the United States Department of State has been that Yap should be "ntor- nationaizcd." :" The Allied Communications Conference. becoming dcadIoclcd in February, 1921, the questions were referred to the For cign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.
 Opposition to Japm's mandate over Yap, expressed by Secretary of State Colby to tn" President and members of the Council of the League of Nations. included the declaration that Yap ''constitutcd an indispensable part of any scheme or practical arrangement of cable communication in the Pacific and that Is free and unhanpcrcd use should not be hampercd or controlled by any one power" Under the mandatory agreed to by France and England, "full power of administration and legislation" over Yap was vested in the Tokio government and Yap was to be con sidercd "an integral part of the Empire of Japan" Another objection by the United States was that it saw in the Yap situation the possibility of a foreign nation exercising a censorship over its communications to Flu rope and Asia
 The fact that the former German operated cable from Shanghai, China, which passes through Yap, was taken over by Japan and ifs Oriental terminus removed to Tokio, was another occasion for American protest. Con trol of Yau by Japan was granted bv the Paris Peace Conference on May :. 1919, when il was decided that thc mandate for Pacific islands
 
 Germany sbould be awarded to the Tollio gov "rnmcnt and the mandate for those south of the equator to Australia and New Zealand
 It is not generally known that the Island of Yap was originally called Guap or Wap. al cognomen given by Spanish navi"ators, who discovered in it the sixteenth century. Until 1885 Yap, like all the other of the Carolines, was owned by Spain. Germany at that time cast covetous eyes upon Yap, realizing that it was well situated for communication with Japan, China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea and that it was a con venient station on the Transpacifc route via Honolulu to San Francisco.
 Suiting action to desire, the German gun boat Iltis in that year, raised the German flag on Yap and other islands. It created con siderable excitement in Madrid and an appeal was made to the Vatican with the result that