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Show JAPAN WILL HOLD 10 WPMANDATE FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL AFFIRMS AF-FIRMS REFUSAL TO GIVE UP ISLAND RIGHTS. May Make Concessions Concerning the Gu2in Cable Line to the Extent of Handing Over to Americ the Guam End. Tokio. Japan will not yield on her iiintnlatunal rights the island of aji, an offieinl of the foreign office antioiinred on Marc!) li. Sin' may, however, how-ever, make some concessions eoneeru-i-ag disposition of tile Yap cable sia-Lion, sia-Lion, be added. 'i'lic declaration of Viscount lsliii, this official continued, was made upon bis own initiative, but represents, on llic whole, tiic aitilntie which .Japan . ill take with regard to the Yap question. ques-tion. Disposition of tile cables, "he asserted, as-serted, is a mailer lor settlement by the international conference on communications, com-munications, but Japan may make concessions con-cessions concerning the Uuam line to the extent of handing over to America the tiiiam end. Japan, however, would continue to hold the Yap end by virtue Of her sovereignty over the island. l'rinia facie title to the cable was' obtained by Japan during the war, he maintained, when Japan cut the Yap-Guam Yap-Guam cable. Asked concerning Japan's attitude toward the conference, between the United States, Great Britain ('and Japan on disarmament, the official replied re-plied Japan was not in a position' to speak definitely until such an invitation invita-tion had been received. Japan's frame of mind might be surmised, sur-mised, however, he added, from utterances utter-ances of Foreign Minister Usliida agreeing in principle to joining an international in-ternational discussion of armament limitation. Newspapers continue to comment on the refusal of the United States to accept Japan as mandatory for Yap. Yorodzu assails the United States for seeking to "repudiate decisions of the league of nations of which "ft is not a member." Asalii Shimbun dwells on the "audacious "auda-cious attitude" of the United States, winch country it declares long has been anxious for possession of lap. |