Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-04-14
MANDATE NOTE
FROM FRANCE
Say They Will Do Everything
to Settle U. S. Issue on ISL
and of Yap.
NEWS FOR WASHINGTON
Taken to Mean Acceptance of
Principles Laid Down by
the U. S. Government.

ASKING TON, April ID
Frances reply to Secretary Hughes
note of April 4, regarding the Jap
anese mandate over the island of
here as tantamount to acceptance
here as cantamount to acceptance
of the principles lid down by the
American government that the
United States has surrendered none
of its rights in the former overseas
German possessions.
The text of the French note
| which is in the form of prelimi-
nary reply was made public today.
both in Washington and in Paris.
It is signed by Premier Millerand
and gives assurance that a French
representative will place before the
supreme council the question of a
desire to find solution to various
matters in order to give every salts
faction to the United States.
Premier Millerand states that his
government has already done every
thing to lend it's aid to the Amer
lean government in this matter.
Reference is made to the French
note of February Is, which pointed
out that while the decision of the
note of May 7, 1919, made no men
tion of the Japan trouble over GER
tain islands, President Wilson and
+ Secretary Lansing had formulated
during former meeting in the
presence of the representatives of
Japan. categorical relations regard
ing the island of Yap and that the
| Japanese representatives had not
| objected.
The full text as made public. does
not diffeir materially from that
given out in Paris.
PARIS, April 14.-Premier BRAND
has dispatched to Washington note
acknowledging receipt of the COM
! munication from the American
state department regarding the
mandate of the Pacific islands north
of the Equator given to Japan. The
note says a representative of France
will take up the question when 1t
comes before the supreme allied
council with the most ardent desire
to find a solution giving satisfaction
of the United States"
After acknowledging receipt of the
American communication Premier
BRAND said:
THE memorandum, being address,
ed to Great Britain, Italy and Japan
simultaneously. reply cannot be
made until after an accord between
the governments of the four inter-
ested powers at the next meeting of
the supreme council"
by the note of Feb. is, after
having noted that the decision of
May Z, 1919 carried with it no re-
striction concerning the attribution
to Japan of a mandate for the is
land of the northern Pacific. my de-
partment explained to your embassy
that, however, President Wilson
ard Secretary of State Lansing in
the course of the preceding meet
ing had formulated in the presence
of Japanese representatives cata-
gorical reservations on the subject
CT the island of Yap; that Baron
Maxine. (Japanese representative
on the council had not refused
to allow discussion of the questions
raised by the representatives of the
United States, and that consequent
knowledge of the American reser-
vation."
The note concluded by saying
that there were contained in it ele-
ments for further conversation be-
tween the United States and Japan,
which the government of the repub
lie would be happy to see result
satisfactorily.
THAT note was the same day
communicated to the Japanese en-
tassy in Paris, and your excellency
was kind enough to express to my
department a lively satisfaction with
the same. and to give assurance
that it would be particularly appre-
GATED in Washington"