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Show ISLANDS CAUSE DWAIIESf 111 Leader in Diet Questions British Administration in Misunderstanding TOKIO. Feb. i tUy Associated Tress). Information relative to the differences which have developed be-i tween- Japan and Great Britain rela- tive to the administration of former flerman Islands south of the equator, has bee,n demanded by Kotaro Mochi-zuki, Mochi-zuki, a leader of the opposition party, and widely known In the United I States as a,, publicist and diplomatic ! expert. Former Minister 1,'chida, speaking I before the Japanese diet on January I 22. referred to the South Pacific island", where Japanese have acquired property right. j lie declared that Great llritain maintained the clause of the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty guaranteeing adherence to tho principle of equal opportunity in mandated districts should not be applied to the administration of islands in the South scan. The Japanese, Japa-nese, he said, had taken a contrary view, but hail lentatively accepted tho Itritish theory, reserving the right to resume the nerotiations and to insist upon the rights of Japanese in the islands over which ''.rent llritain has been given a mandate. The Japanese government has in- sis ted from the stnrt thai Japan is entitled to German rights and interests inter-ests in the Island of Yap. and this policy will be followed, said Viscount I'chida. the foreign minister in th diet, in answer to an inquiry by Representative Rep-resentative Kotaro Mochixuki concerning concern-ing the outcome of the negotiations between Japan and the Cnited States! regarding disposition of the Yap cable! and also the nature of Japan's policy n the premises. I I |