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Show JAPS SUGGEST CABLE CONTROL Empire Will Uphold Its Mandate Man-date Over Island. Paper Says TOKIO, March 4 (By The Assocl-! lated Press). The Yomei-l'n Shim-' 'bun today published a dispatch from J Paris quoting Viscount Kijulro Ishii.l I Japanese aniliavailnr to !" ranee and . ri presentattve of Japan In the council' of the league of nations, as saving that! 'Japan would insist on her mandate II over the Island of Yap. but was ready 1 1 to make concessions regarding the ca bles. The newspaper says it thinks Viscount Ishli's statement embodies the attitude of Japan which does not di lire to permit the ap Question to i f t the friendly relations between! Japan and the l'nlted States. PLAN JOINT CONTROL. The Yomcl-Url surmlies Japun will propose that the Guam-Yap cable line i ! placed undT .Jolnt control, but de clare It remains to be hern whether' this would aatlsfy the United Btat4 I The Kokumln Shlmbun Calls attention atten-tion to the Importanc e the lnaugura-! tion "i ihe 1 1 a lriK i dmlnlst ration will I have on Kar Eastern affairs. It cannot can-not bo denied, the newspaper ss that It means the negotiations be twin Japan and the Culled States on pending oucrtions must undergo ro-newed ro-newed discussion, more ospei iuIIv the iccord between tbe two countries, which hail almost reached ihe stak'e of suecen siRoNt.i.it l s. POLICY, "At this critical moment." the Kokumln Ko-kumln continues, 'uiiother delicate i matter has arisen, the Yap problem 1 The Harding administration probabl) I will adopt stronger foreign pol than the outgoing admlnhttlfln, so ihai Japan's diplomacy lowartt Anierl- 'ca la bound to become increasingly dlf-i ,flcult "We hear that Japan KiivA to the. incoming president .i heuutlfujp bouuuet I I of reises but we want to Jsp.m to be careful that the bomjucM Of roses Is not returned to us aa a frB of thistles " . |