Japanese Action Noted by "The Times": Washington Naval Treaty and the Port Lloyd Base 2 London, Sept. 19.
The fortification of the Bonin islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, tide by a correspondent in "The Times" to-aay.
it refers to the suggestion that the reported' conversion of Port Lloyd into a naval and alr base portends the Japanese abandonment of the Ladrones and other Pacific groups in 1935, when she dissociates herself from the League of Nations.
Tt is equally possible, continues the article, that the Japanese intend hold them and create a powerful base in the Bonins for their protection, Certainly, the Chichijima base further strengthens their almost impregnable position in the western Pacific, and its conversion into an a base scarcely seems consonant wit Article XIX of the Five-Power Treaty.
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