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Show IPIIEFB 1(1 GIVE OP VAPJSLE Foreign Office Official 'Says Country Will Cling to Mandatory Right TOKJO. March T. Jpn will not yield on her mandatorlal rights on the Island of Tap. an official of tho foreign office told th Associated Press. Sha mtr, however, make aoaaa conees-alona conees-alona concerning disposition of tha Tap Mhle ara t ion he added. The declaration of Vlecount lahll, this official continued, waa made upon his own Initiative, but represents, on the whole, the attitude which Japan finally win take with regard to tha Tap question. ques-tion. Disposition of tha cables, ha asserted. as-serted. Is a matter for settlement by the International conference on communications, com-munications, but Japan may make concessions con-cessions concerning the Guam Una to the extent of handing over to America the Guam end. Japan, however, would continue to hold the Tap end. by vlr-tne-ef bee woielgny ever the Island. Prima facie title to the cable waa obtained by Japan during the war, he maintained, when Japan cut the Tap-Ouam Tap-Ouam cable. Asked concerning Japan's attitude toward tha conference between the United Statea, Great Britain and Japan ' on disarmament, tha official replied that Japan waa not In a position to I speak definitely until such an Invita-I Invita-I tlon had been received. Japan's tram of mind might be surmised, sur-mised, however, ha added, from utterances utter-ances of Foreign Minister Uchira. agreeing In principle to Joining an International In-ternational discussion of armament limitation. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. Newspapers continue todsy to comment com-ment on tha refusal of tha United Htate s to accept Japan as mandatory for Tap. Xorodau aasalla th United Statea for seeking to "repudiate the decisions, of the league of nations, of which It is not a member." Asahl rlhlmbun dwells on tha "audacious "auda-cious attitude" of the United States. whlcficountryTTt dec I area, long baa been, anxious for tha possession of Yap. The H"""1" SMirrtratl says: "If Japan offers an Inch, America will try to take a yard." Commenting on a reported project by the United Htatee to Increase the Guam fortifications. Mchl N'lchl thinks this will ba a serious blow to Japanese defense, de-fense, and "cannot but Impress Japan- ess nature as a challenge by a country which la foremost In attacking th Japanese aa being militarist!." INSPIRES ERROR. JIJI Bhlmpo says, with regard to the 'rejection by the house ef the resolution resolu-tion for a curtailment In naval armament, arma-ment, that It haa caused the misunderstanding misun-derstanding abroad that Japan still advocates ad-vocates naval expansion. It asserts that all Influential newspapers of Japan and a majority of tha Intelligent classes recognise the necessity for reduction re-duction in armament. "Th people of Japan." It says, "will surely welcome any armament restriction restric-tion proposal." The newspaper declares Japan may have to rely on an International agreement agree-ment concerning limitation of naval armaments, but that th country Is able to restrict army expenditures owing to the favorable change in th Far Kastern situation. The only drawback." It says, "la the predominance of th military clique." TO CABLE HAROINO. At meetings of buslnss men It was decided to send a cable to President Harding and Senator Borah, urging them to use their influence for restriction restric-tion In armament and also to request the diet to spply a part of tha armament arma-ment appropriation to educational and social improvement - BanJI Muto, chairman of one meeting, meet-ing, said ba feared adoption of the budget bud-get by tha Japan ass - house without modification would caus a reaction In the United States In favor of armament arma-ment Of 700 postal cards distributed - In Osaka, Kyoto and Koba, following lectures lec-tures by Yuklo Osakl, leader of the Constitutionalist party. In favor of dla-armament dla-armament 20t0 were returned. Of these. 1000 Indorsed Mr. Oaakl's views on curtailment in armament and sixty were against Revolt Also Starts in Chita TOKIO, March 7. According ' to travelers from Chita, east of the bolshevik bol-shevik Far Kastern republic In Siberia, Si-beria, an antlsovlet movsment haa been started by troops and peasants In the Interior of that republic, aays a dispatch to ths JiJI Bhlmpo from Vladivostok today. Th revolutionary revolution-ary movement it la said, takes In tha citlaa of Cheliablnsk, Tobolsk and Omsk. |