Show PARADE— EDITORIAL-NE- WS FlNANCIAL--MlNlNS- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING REAL ESTAT- E- — MAIN NEWS SECTION— Third Part APRIL 5 1936 " C Page T JAPAN GUARDS SECRETS OF PACIFIC WAR POSTS 111 ' " - '""i- 7 Strong Bases Built In Violation of All Pacts Writer Says i i Keep Foreign Visitors From Landing on Any of the Mandated Islands Mystery Still Marks Disappearance of Aliens BY CONSTANTINE BROWN April i— Behind the Japanese suggestion to discuss the naval bases in the Pacific lies a thrilling drama involving secret fortifications espionage- - and naval rivalries which played an important part behind the scenes In the London negotiations The United States Great Britain hnd Japan agreed in 1922 when the first naval limitations treaty was signed In Washington to maintain the status quo with regard to fortifications and naval bases in the Western Pacific west of the 180th parallel The maintenance of the status qQo implied that no new fortifications or naval bases shall be established in the territories and possessions of the three signatories that no measure shall he taken to Increase the existing naval facilities and that no Inrrorme ahull Via made In the coast defenses of the specified territories Violates Pact During the 14 years which have WASHINGTON scrupulously the provisions of the Japan Washington agreement has not The island tew and far apart between Hawaii and the China coast which are flying the American flag remained undefended The defenses of Manila were neglected The British left Hong Kong as it was at the end of the World war But hardly had the ink dried on the Washington treaty when the Japanese government began trans- forming into powerfully fortified submarine' and air bases the islands entrusted to her by Europe in 1920 Strewn between the 180th par' allel and the Philippines there are four archipelagoes with hundreds of small islands commonly known since 1920 as the mandated islands They qfed to belong to Gee many until the treaty of VerOn the maps these sailles sparsely populated pin points still have their German names: the Marianas the Marshalls the Caroline and the Pelew No white man excepting an occasional missionary has set foot in those prized possessions of Japan since 'the supreme council in Paris placed them under the mandate of the Tokyo government The few who ventured to pry into the Secrets of the imperial govern- ment reached the islands without much trouble but were never seen British Americans and again Dutch who disregard Japan’s notice “Forbidden to foreigners” disappeared without a trace Try to Check Tales During recent years there have been unsuccessful attempts on the part of the interested governments to check up on the mysterious tales which were brought back by the few Malay fisherman who ventured into those forbidden waters When the governor of Guarrv indicated his desire to call on ts Japanese colleague there wa£ no from Tokyo encouragement Either the harborq'were not charted yet and Would be dangerous for an American warship ITOJ7- -- anese governor did not have the jiecesqaTy facilities to receive suqfex distinguished guests as American naval men accustomed as they were to the comforts and luxuries of American naval stations In 1933 when a group of American scientists wanted to observe the solar eclipse from the Marianas and were told by the navy department that they could have a tug to take them and their Instruments over the Japanese government forestalled the official request of the state department with an offer to place at the disposal of the foreign astronomers the Kaga Maru an old Japanese freighter But even the most ruthlessly guarded secret cannot be kept Indefinitely and the efforts of the Tokyo government to keep these islands a forbidden sone have proved useless The activities of the Japanese - navy are today no longer a secret in Washington London and at Geneva Wards of Mandate The principal naval base is Saipan Island In the Cairo lines archipelago The Japanese government has spent no less than in “improvements" The covenant of the league of nations describes the mandate as “a sacred trust of civilization to be assumed by nations who by reason of their resources can best undertake the responsibility to safeguard and g of the in assure the population” Japan is isted there in 1923 have been interpreting this “sacred trust of modernized and provided with civilization” in its own manner artillery These secrets have now leaked In Saipan the harbor has been developed to take in ships up to out but Tokyo continues to deny 4000 tonf a pier 300 feet long has that anything “illegal” is being done When 18 months ago the been contracted to accommodate draft Italian delegate at the “Permaships not exceeding a nent Mandates Commission” at Although the natives are mostly fishermen who raise just the bare Geneva demanded certain exnecessities of life three sugar planations from the Japanese repmills have been erected on the resentative regarding the "harisland with concrete foundations bor works” in the islands the ‘These were capable of supporting 12 and 14 Japanese replied inch coastal defense guns Saipan necessary because of the erosions Is today the principal submarine caused by the storms” The reply of the Italian “The advance post in the Pacific and the center for distributing military centuries old calm of the ocean ljy and naval supplies to the bases that region must have changed In the other archipelagoes since Japan took poseessiomof the One thousand miles east of archipelagoes” brought- - broad Mindanao lies the Pelew or Palao smile from the Tokyo representagroup There the Kossol reef has tive The sole meads at the disposal been transformed into a first of the lAgud for compelling the class air base while in the Korrov Island another submarine and proper execution of the mandate hydroplane base the natives have is thirforce of public opinion been treated along the whole sqdAhat is a feeble weapon these length of the island with a military lays road which is lined with bristlini Offensive Plans eight inch guns the discussions which During The summer war gamef the led to the signature of the London 1935 fleet in 1933nd Japanese naval treaty British and Amerhave found these x bases fully ican naval experts have satisfactory Equally satisfactory particular attention to the given "ofwere the submarine caches of fensive of the Jappreparations” Wolsai Ufelang Kwajolang anese general staff Waloelab'and Bongelad in the In the minds of naval strateMarshall achipelago gists there is no dodbt that the Formosa Air Base fortifications of the mandated islands cannot be interpreted in The island of Formosa which comes under the same status quo the same way as the remilitarization of the Rhineland Hitler’s conprovision is now one of Japan’s tention that the pill boxes and the strongest air bases in the Pacific Situated only 350 miles from Luunderground airfield he is building on the left bank of the Rhine are zon this island has become during the last four years as much of a purely defensive works is not forbidden tef i liOry iu rureignenr baseiess On the other side or xne river there are powerful' French as the mandated archipelagoes On its southern and eastern and Belgian fortresses But there Is nothing in the coasts modern flying fields and hangars capable of containing western Pacifio to worry the 350 airplanes have been erected Japanese sailors America’s only while the fortifications which ex important naval base Hawaii is digenous ot DRIVE OUT about 2000 miles from the first group of the mandated islands the Marshall archipelago and 3392 miles from Yokohama Manila the only important base in the Western Pacific is obsolete and its fortifications which not been modernized foryrtmny years are purely defensive The of the Manila harbor is American China etjuadron composed of one orfilser a few old destroyers and submarines and some Hyr gunboats By no Btretcof the imagination could thlsbe represented as a menace tim-bas- Ao islands Japanese submarines and of the Islands of Java and Suma- destroyersould tra checkmate the movevbr the American and in th Pacific In the (Centime they could clear the Pacific sea lanes of every British and American merchantman and destroy British and American commerce with the Far East Offers Problem It will not be easy to remedy In London the this situation delegates of the signatories of the new naval agreement discussed informally what might be done to counter Japan’s move Between Hawaii and Japan the United States possesses a number of islands which might be organized as airplane bases These are Midway and the Wake islands and the newly acquired Kingman Reef Palmyra Jarvis and Baker islands which the department of commerce has made into bases for the China clipper airline None of thepi has for the time being any military value But they could in case of emergency be transformed into bases for naval plane The Aleutians a string of islands to Alaska from extending Kamchatka have been surveyed during the past three years and It was found that they could offer satisfactory shelter for subTheir marines and seaplanes transformation Into naval bases however will prove a slow process since plans have not yet gone beyond the preliminary experimental stage Any expenditure on Manila and Guam is considered futile because they are directly under the guns of the Japanese Brit-ish-fle- e Japan - Britain Also Weak' The British are not much better equipped in the Far East Even before they withdrew the major portion of their China fleet squadron in November 1935 to transfer it to the Mediterranean the four British cruisers and the divisions of destroyers and submarines based at Hong Kong and Shanghai were as innocuous as the American division Hong Kong is as obsolete as Manila Singapore Britain’s far dl eastern Gibraltar has been only a few months At the time the Japanese began to fortify the mandated islands the British labor government had decided to neglect that outpost of the empire It was only after the admiralty obtained conclusive proofs of the Japanese preparations that the British government decided to complete the defense of Singapore American and British naval strategists are seriously concerned over the tremendous work Japan has completed In her eastern com-plete- For Example: Comes First Complete m Now Is the time to —AND MODERN LIVING ROOM SUITES ” $44 YOUR OLD RANGE 3 for What You Get Down— 82 a Month 4 DOMESTIC ORIENTALS — Of latest design and fine Mohawk and Smith quality Rug Cushion mm23 and Throw Rug included at 5x12 $AQ7S 85 Down— 88 a Month marvel at the fine quality and beauty of this lovely living room outfit See It now before It’s too late will Vou KARPEN and GRAND RAPIDS SUITES THE ABOVE 12 PIECES in “OUR WONDER” Mohair Quality Group for your living room It's the year’s best buy for — Now also before at such never so Down— $ Oa Month a Outfits low price Never And $6 8250 LINOLEUM FELT BAS- E3 square yards for PRIN- TA square yard INLAI- DA square yard 8f $f Down— 8260 a Month EXTRA QUALITY RUGS— Including some Wiltons Rug Cushion and Throw Rugs also Included 8ft8Q Jfe 4A 8350 Down— 88 a Month Electric The beautiful and fine for pnly $7050 88 Week A 82 Davenport Lounge Chair Choice of Tables Table Scarf Sofa Pillow Table Lamp and Shade Floor Lamp and Shade Bridge Lamp and Shade UKlVt OUT & SAVE 81 a SEAMLESS' AXMINSTER or VELVET RUGS All wool faced and choice pat- - 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