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Show And all are equally good for you. Teeth, appetite and digestion ail, benefit. Your nerves will say "thank you. your vim will respond. WR1GLEVS is liked for what it does as well as for its BIG value at the small cost of 5c. The Flavor Lasts dear aFj-j&iAz- fteief mfetvybr r fYvrtinfffaif Japanese are intelligent, warlike and Industrious, They are crowded at home and getting more crowded They are living In cramped condi Caroline archipelago of the tlons on a meager diet. Naturally North Pacific which just they are seeking to Improve their con now bulks large in the ON YAP. dition by emigration, penetration, col U. S. did hap worlds eye, has a suggesonization and conquest. Thats wh7 To take a nap; tive name. The dictionary are In California, Hawaii, Siberia, they And then the Jap Korea and Shantung and would like gives various meanings to Chap. Looking, for pap. the word, including snapto be In Canada, Australia and New Seeing a gap, to Likewise a snap. pish bark, yelp, gab, Zealand. Most nations fight only wbe Lid clap talk noisily, to chatter, to war. is thrust upon them. Japan conA wrap scold. Also, as seen by . On Yap. , siders, war s y Jf state Eo Yap the foregoing 'pome, tap which may not .or Is on the map. condifj6nS , may many rhymes, Including make expedient. Mayhap The Jap map, Jap, scrap. Anyway, the isOn the last lap Yap, of course, has a past. The as Mt x go land, in itself as inconsequential German-owneisland north of the Get a tap its name, Is now on the map to stay. Or a rap equator, turned over to Japan by the As to Jap and scrap that is a story Or a slap. mandate, include the Marianne or Even a scrap: yet to be told. the Marshall and the Caroline Verb. sap. Before the World war, you see, the J. D. 3. groups from north to south ; they form United States enjoyed direct cable e around a sort of strategic communication with China by way of Th& the Philippines. Carolines, of must tion which assume it was taken Yap, then a German possession. Dur- under a erill be re- which Yap is one, number 700 Islands, ing the war Japan diverted the cable considered.misapprehension, most of which are small atolls. Their routes with the result that American total area is about 560 square miles. Of more there is or feelless course, business and press dispatches must , The principal islands are ing In both the United States and now be sent by way of Manila. and 106 miles 10,000 square Viscount Uchida, foreign minOn November 9, 1920, the United Japan.of ister has officially declared population ; Ponape, 134 and 2,000 ; States called the attention of the pow- that his Japan, government will stand firmly Yap, 70 and 2,750; Ruk, 80 and 12,000; ers to its understanding that Yap was on its mandate over the North Pacific Kusalc, 45 and 400. not to be Included in the mandate to The Carolines were discovered In islands, formerly owned by Japan, but was to be international- It seems to be the general Germany. 1527 by Diego da Rocha, a Portuguese, of opinion ized as a cable station. the "Japanese newspapers that the who named them the Sequieras. In Yet in December, 1920, the council United States is in no to in- 1686 Admiral Francesco Lazeano gave of the League of Nations, controlled terfere, because it hasposition not ratified them their present name in honor of by the allied powers, approved the the peace treaty and has not entered his king, Charles II of Spain. with Yap in- the , north Pacific mandate, David OKeefe of Savannah, Ga., League of Nations." cluded. It is not to be denied that the con- recalled the exigence of the Carolines Now the United States not only troversy over Yap, in connection with to the civilized world in 1873. He was holds invalid the disposition, without matters In China and Siberia, Is a shipwrecked and cast up on Yap, Its consent, of any of the territories danger spot. But any talk of war be- Thereupon he married a native woman ceded by the central empires to the tween the United States and Japan and proclaimed himself king of Yap. allied, and associated powers, but over Yap Is king Spain ousted this mostly .yap. pointedly suggests reconsideration of of of Yap. The plain truth the matter is the action,, in defiance of American that It is About this time Germany cast covet, for probably protest, approving the award to Japan America and Japan to impossible to war ous eyes on the Carolines, recognizing resort of the mandate for Yap and other with the hope of a decisive victory. their strategic position as to Japan, north Pacific islands. The two countries are too far apart. China, the Philippines and the Dutch This is the substance of the Ameri- It would strain the resources even of East Indies. So the German gunboat can note to Great Britain, France, Itthe United States successfully to in- Iltls hoisted the German flag on Yap aly, and Japan, now made public by vade Japan. Japan could not success- and other islands In 1885. Spain proSecretary of State Hughes. fully Invade the United States. Neith- tested. The Pope was named arbitraHis argument is that the Ameri- er country has the men or the tor and upheld Spains claim, granting can interest In these territories derives necessary for such an invasion.ships A Germany important trading rights from American participation in the country that must fight an enemy sev- Fourteen years later, after the victory over the central powers; that eral thousands of miles across the sea war, Spain sold the Carothis interest Is recognized not only is at a disadvantage almost hopeless. lines and Ladrone islands to Germany in the Versailles treaty, but In the Japan, in a purely defensive war, is for $4,200,000. Guam was excepted, as mandate terms ; that President Wilson, the most powerful country on earth It had come into the possession of in the sessions of the supreme coun- except America. the United States in 1898. ' cil, made the .reservation that Yap It is this military deadlock between Yap next attracted attention in should be internationalized, and that America and that explains many 1914, when British cruisers destroyed Japan the councils allocation of Yap to Ja- things that otherwise would puzzle the the wireless station and cut" the capan is not binding on the United student of Oriental affairs. It ex- bles. A month or so later a Japanese States, because this nation has not the Japanese attitude toward fleet took possession. This was a surratified the Versailles treaty, under plains the California situation. Japan knows prise, as Great Britain had officially authority of which such allocation was It cannot use force to change that con- announced that Japans activities In. made. dition. The astute reader will also the war would not extend beyond the It Is a cause of regret to this gov- see its bearing upon the Siberian sit- China sea. In answer to an Inquiry, ernment, the Hughes note says, that uation, the Shantung Incident at the Japan assured Secretary of State after and despite this protest, there peace conference and our former Bryan that the occupation was for should have been any attempt to pass r policy in China. America military purposes only and would not upon drafts of mandates purporting and Japan are therefore still In the be permanent. to deal with the Pacific islands, stage of diplomatic amenities where Yap, together with the other Caroeluding Yap, and that a mandate they are likely to remain for a long line Islands, is of considerable milishould have been . approved, or at- time. Incidentally, if Japan should tary importance. It lies at the gate of tempted to be put into effect, which, decide to make war on the United the Orient. Americas route to the while purporting to be made in the States, she would presumably strike runs by way of Hawaii, name of the United States, was with- without warning, as she did in the Philippines and Manila. As a JapaYap Guam, out the assent of the United States, war. nese naval base, it would be a menace This government trusts that this ac Japen Is not difficult to understood. both to Guam r.rd the Philippines. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. 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