Tokyo, Oct. 5.
Japan will retain her mandatory rights in the southern Pacific is spite of her probable severance of all re~ ations with the League of Nations the Foreig Office spokesman said here today. Japan, the spokesman said, had been awarded the Islands by the Five-Power Conference convened fater the Armistice and not by the League of Nations, Comprising islands formerly in German hands, the mandated area was taken over by the Japanese Navy during the World War.
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