Citizenship Tokyo, Sept. 20.
Mr. Juan Castro, police inspector of the South Seas "Administration, which governs the Japanese Mandated Taands in the South Pacile, today began the rounds of various Japan joe government departments with Petition for the granting of Japanese fetizenship. to the 50000 natives on the islands. Mr. Castro arrived in [Yokohama on September 18 in the Ss. Saipan Maru in. company with Ar. Harjo Nate, editor of the *"Nanyo Asahi Shimbun'"a Japanese language Gaily published inthe mandated {Ff the 50.000 natives, he said, 4000 belong to. the comparatively "well educated Chamorros, while the remainder are Kenakas "There are also. 60,000 Jupanese on the islands.
The Mandated Territories have 0 far contributed ¥.10,000 to the na: tional defence fund—Domel.
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