Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-03-31
]. 5. OPPOSITION
To MANUFACTURES
Of JAPAN GROWS
DOES NOT APPLY TO ZAP BUT
TO 127 OTHER ISLANDS WHICH
PARTLY ENCiRCLE THE PHIL.
ipPiNES.

confined to the Island of Yap, but, as
indicated on February Il, 1921, in
the note of former Secretary Of state
Colby, to the league OF nations, to all
Of the islands in the Pacific ocean
north Of the equator which formerly
belonged to Germany These gems
of the oriental seas" Of which Yap
is one. aggregate l27, and are com.
priscd in four groups, namely the
CarOlines with 81, the Marshall with
81. the Marianne Tor l.adrone) with
25 and the Pelew with eight They
form a kind of strategic scmicirclc
around the Philippines.
While chief interest in the discus.
sions of the allied communications
conference, which began in Washing
ton on October s. 1920, to determine
the ALLEGATION of these islands, has
centerod in zap by reason Of its I'M
portancc as cable station, the prob
lem Of Yap is ovorshadowed by the
larger International aspect of the
control of all the 12T islands. The
contention of the United States dc
partment Of state has been that Gdp
should be inlernationaized The al
lied communications conference, at
tended by representatives of the five
allied powers becoming dCadl0ckCd
in February, the questions were re-
ferred to the foreign relations COM
mittcc of the United States senate
Date of the resumption of the con
ference has not hecn announced.
Opposition to Japan's mandate ov-
err zap, expressed by Mr. Colby to
the president and members OF the
council of the league Of nations, in
cluded the declaration that Nap con
stituted an Indispensable part of any
scheme or practical arrangement of
cable communication in the Pacific
and that it's free and unhampcrcd use
should not be hampered or controlled
by any one power. Under the man
datory. agreed to by France and Eng
land, full power Of administration and
legislation over zap was vested in
the Toxic government and Iap was
to be considered an integral part of
the empire OF Japan Another OBJ
lection by the United States is that
it sees in the zap situation the pos
sibilty OF a foreign nation exercising
a censorship over its communications
to Europe and Asia.
The fact that the former German
operated cable from Shanghai, China,
which passes through zap was taken
over by Japan and its original ter
minus removed to Toxic was another
occasion for the American protest .
Control over zap by Japan was grant
ed by the Paris peace conference on
May Z, 1919, when it was decided
that the mandate for the Pacific isl
ands north OF the equator formerly
belonging to Germany should be
awarded to the Toxic government and
the mandate TOR those south of the
equator to Australia and New Zea,
land.
II is not generally known that the
island OF zap was originally called
Guap or Wap, a Cognomen given by
Spanish nayigatOrs, who discovered
it in the 18th century. Until 1885 zap
like all the other of the CarOlinca.
thie ,imc caet cnvnto,,s ovog M Won
realizing that it was well situated
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