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Show 1 S. DEMANDS SHARE IN ALLIED DISCUSSION I WILSON'S NOTE I is studied ey I LEASUE COUNCIL I U. S. Claims Equal Concern In Handling Germany's Overseas Possessions . i: NEVER CONSENTED TO GIVE YAP TO JAPAN Some Statesmen Question U. S. Right to Participate in Allied Discussion PARIS. Feb 24. (By The Assocl- ated Press t The United States gov- crnmont, in its note to the council of the league of nations on tho question of mandates, claims an equal concern jand Interest with tho other principal allied and associated powers in tho overseas possessions of Germany and ln ther disposition. This was shown today when the note, sent by tho American state depart- ment and laid before tho council of tho league yesterday was mado public. NOTE is Mist CSS1 D The council again took up tho note. I this morning, considering It with par- tlcular reference to this claim advam'-'ed advam'-'ed by the United States. Some of the 'members held that America had for-1 for-1 felled such rights by withdrawing as an associated power, from tho supreme In the summary of the note, which watt made public Wednesday, it was revealed that the United States de- dared It had never given Its consent j that the island of Yap. an Important (link ln the chain of cable communlca- tlonK in the Pacific be Included In the I territories suhjected to the mandate 'of Japan. The principal feature of the note. In addition to tho points con- talned in the summary, was the Am- encan contention of equal right and .interest ln disposing of Germany's ov-j ov-j erseas possessions. On this tho note l NFGLE S A M CONCERNED. "Aa one of the ptlnclpal allied and 'associated powers tho United State. I has equal concern and inseparable in- terest with the other principal allied and associated powers in the overseas possessions of Germany, and conse- quehtly an equal voice In their dls- position, which it la respectfully sub- mltted cannot bo undertaken or af- fected without Its consent." iteferrlng to tho attribution of tho island of Yap to Japan, the note reads: j "While this government never a--I sented to the Inclusion of the Island of Yap ln the proposed mandate to Japan, It may be pointed out that even If one or more of the other principal allied and associated powers were un- dor misapprehension as to the Indus- Ion of the inland in the reported de- clslon of May 7, 1919, nevertheless In the notes above mentioned the United ! States government makes clear Its po- (Presumably the notes referred to comprised that sent by tho Unit. .1 ' States to Great Britain on November I 20, last, with the copies submitted to tho French and Italian governments. ,The notes set forth tho American po-isition po-isition on the responsibilities of man-datoiy man-datoiy powers. The Japanese man- date was approved by tho council of tho league December 17 ln Geneva.) POSITION BXPL 1INED, ' At tho tlmo when these notes were addressed to the respective govern- ments above mentioned, an agreement had not been reached on the terms of tho allocation of the mandates cover- Ing the former Herman Inlands in tho Pacific. Therefore, the position tafc on by the president on behalf of this HJ i government clearly set forth, neceS HHl sarily had the re-sult of effectively HBa I withdrawing any suggestion or lmpli- HBl j.atlon of assent, mistakenly Imputed HHJ to this government long before De- HHl cumber 17, 1920, the date of the coun ' cil's meeting In Geneva." JftV |