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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS - WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH, 1991.

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THE UNITED STATES AND

YAP.

THE US. NOTE TO JAPAN. WHY AMERICA REFUSES TO RECOG:

NISE JAPAN'S CLAIM:

The diplomatic correspondence on the subject of the island of Yap, which has taken place between the Governments of Japan and the United States has recently been published. The position is clearly stated in a letter written by Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of State, and dated April 6th last it reads as follows:---

MADAME LOTTIE GORDON'S

FTERNOON CONCERT

CITY HALL,

CHINA'S RAILWAYS.

According to an official report ou 'China's railways the total cost of the entire Government property December 31st, 1910. amounted to $491,877,393,19, Mex. Of this amount, $183,100,184,24 was the cost of road", and equipment. @591,063.01 was the cost of other physical property, such as land, mills or mines. not part of the operates! railways.

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Government investment, and suns represented by mortgage bonds; expital liabilities, and 85.943.802.28 was the cost of non-physical, assets, which companies, the purchase price of rights, consist of stocks and bonds of other and similar intangible property. east of road and equipment. per kilometre of line in the system was, therefore, $81,144.71 Mexican (or, $130,380.43 per mile). Compare this with the per kilo metre cost of other countries (in gold dollars):-

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Country. Cost per Kilometre of Line.

Australia 34,240 (U.S. Gold). India

99,706 Japan

33,074

Russia. 34,000

South Africa, 30.153 Germany 74,503

The Government of the United States finds itself unable to agree with the con tention of the Imperial Japanese Govern ment that in order to maintain the posis tion of the Government of the United States with respect to the Island of Yap it is necessary for the Government to prove not merely the fact that the parti- cular line of views was stated at the meetings of the Supreme Council, but also that the Supreme Court decided in favour of those views. If it is meant that the United States could be bound without its consent by the action of the Supreme Council,' the contention ja deemed by my Government to be in- admissable, and on the other hand thef United States has never assented to the were taken at 73 cents of US, gold cur- If the average price of the silver dollar titles over her overseas possessions. Erency, the cost of the Chinese Govern will not be questioned that one of the meut Railways ner kilometre of line: Principal Allied and Associated would amount to about 360.000, which is Powers in whose favour Germany re rather high. This is probably due to the nounces her rights and titles is the fact that unch of the materials and most United States. Thus not only could the of the equipment used were "purchased position of the Government of Japan from foreign countries. derïve no strength from the Treaty of Versailles or from any discussions pre- Jiuinary thereto. but the terms of that Treaty confirm the position of the Gov. ernment of the United States.

United States 10,005 (

The following is a'zabulur view of the cost of road and equipment of the dif Ferent lines:-

:

Taiguan 242,550 22,423,81423 01,308,10 Trokow-Chiogbos 132,6597,694,036.69%40,8:9.14 Kaifeng-Ho 385,000 13,580,991.01 -73,139.37 Chuchow Kirin-Changebun 123,530. · 7,104,314.93. 57,511.09

Kilometres Cost of Road Cost per Lize Owned

and Kilometro U.S. NEVER SPECIFICALLY AGREED,

Equipment of Line Further, the draft convention refat- Poking-Hankow 1,305,571 8101,817,219.65 $77, 37.55 ing to the maudate for the German con- Fiestain. Pakow 1,106,825 101,525,778.049,725.52 Peking-linkden 030,030 68,030,757 57. 00,950.55 cessions in the Pacific Ocean north of the S'hal-Nanking997,008 31,047,202,51 1,017.13 Equator, which was subsequently pro- S'hai-H°chọn.» posed procreded in the same view pur Poking-Saiyan 490,788 28,824,578.73 30.756.80 po. 286,309, 22,500,75 79,2.58 porting on behalf of the United States Chengting as one of the grantors to confer the man- date upon Japan, thus recognizing the right and interess of the United States and the fact that the proposed. action could not be effective without the agree ment of the United States as one of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. As the United States did not enter into this convention or into ány, Treaty, re lating to the subject, my Government is unable to understand upon what grounds it was thereafter attempted to confer the mandate without the agreement of the United States. It is manifest that the League of Nations was without any authority to bind the United States and that the confirmation of the mandate in question and the definition of its terms

Ping siang 90.540 Canton-Kowloon · 143,294 Changchow-Amoy 23.000 Sapinganish Hupch-Hunan 42,813

Teonehlatan 80,580

4.810.838.42 | 59,191.95

· 15,633,218,40 109,139.27

2.849.768.4694.634.42 54,031,804,70-147,825.TU

́5,510,334.99 | ́63,631.30

Chinese Gorerament Railwaye -

1019 5,079,995 $495,130,154,91 381,144.71

· 10185,473,018 428,4 1,334,31 78,275.19 2015 5,443,834 || 409,520,351 10 76,220.29

change formed an important item. This Among the financial accounts, Ex- is due to the fact that the Chinese Government Railways were built largely

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NEW BAILWAYS AND... nosus,

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and the British American Tobacco Co.. tion. The Adminstration of the Peking luve "contributed 8100,000 in this connec Hankow Railway have also submitted specifications to the Government for the building of a number of highways by the famine sufferers as feeders for the wain

It should be noted that this randate actively engaged planning the construc tion of short railroads in several direc not only recites Article 119 of the Treations. The Peking-Hankow ling is to be of Versailles to the effect that Ger connected with the Peking-Pukow rail- many renounces in favour of the Prin cipal Allied and Associated Powers all way by a branch running from Tsingehow to Shibchisebuang The embankment her rights over her overseas possession work is being done by famino sufferers, including therein the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean lying north of the Equator, but also recites that the Principal Allied and Associated Powers agreed that in accordance with Article 29 Part 1 (Covenant of the League of Nations) of the said Treaty a mandate should be conferred upon His Majesty, the Emperor of Japan to administer the said islands and bave proposed that the man- dare should be formulated' is set forth While this last quoted recital, as has already been pointed out in previous communications "by my Government, is inaccurate in its terme, inasmuch as the United States as one of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers had not so agreed and proposed, the recital again recognizes the necessity of the partici pation of the United States in order to make the proposed disposition effec tive"

The Note then re-states ex-President- Wilson's understanding of the subject, namely that the United States had never given its consent as to this mandate, and concludes] :-

line,

The roads it. proposed to build in this connection are as follows:-

',

From Kowyang to Mancheng 60 li. From Hsushuai to Aahsin 67 li. From Chichow to Yangchuan 45 lì.. From Wangtu to Chinfengtien 2) li. From Shuntelu" to. Kuanhsien 70 li. · From Hantanhsien to Tamingfu 140 li: From Huhsien station to Hobsien city'

From Hsiencheng station to Haincheng

city 2 li

From Hoshangchion to Yuchen 70 11. From Chichow to Wuan 100 li From Kuangluchen to Pengcheng 70 li. From Shunteh to Shuihsien 45 11. Again, on the Peking-Mukden Railway a second line of rails is to be laid be "Apart from the express purpose of tween Shanhaikuan on the west and the President Wilson in relation to the Tungstas coal mines. The distance is Island of Yap, inasmuch as the proceed about 120 miles. The estimate for this ings of the Supreme Council on May 7th, | work is $3,000,000. The Yu Tung section 1919, did not, and in the nature of things of the Peking Hankow Bailway, will also would not, have fiaality, my Government be double tracked, mas

is unable to perceive any ground for the Further north the Peking-Suiyan line contention that it was its duty to make is to be extended in a westerly direction immediate protest with respect to the to the important trading centre of Pao so-called decision of May 7th, 1919, and taocheng across the Mongolian border.— certainly it cannot be said that an omis. From the Chinese Government Bureau sion to do so operated as a cession af its | of Economic Information: rights. It may be added, however, that

when the matter was brought to the at

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tention of the Government of the United its right or interest, as it existed prior States in connection with the Conference to any action of the Supreme Council on Communications in October last, my or of the League of Nations and cannot Government informed the Government of recognize the allocation of the Island or Japan and other Governments (by Notes the validity of the mandate to Japan, being a world orginization with Offices at practically all principal Ports and Towne, of November 9th, 1920), that it was the In this view the Government of the understanding of the American Govern United States deems it to be unneces ment that the Island of Yap was not in-sary at his time to consider the terms cluded in the action of May 7th, 1919. Its of the so-called C mandates or the position was subsequently stated at discussion with respect thereto length...

The American Government, as had It is a cause of regret to my Govern been clearly stated in previous commu- ment that, after and despite this protest aications, seeks to exclusive interest in there should have been any attempt to the Island of Yap and, has no desire to pass upon drafts of mandates purportingcoure any privileges without having to deal with the Pacific Islands, includir arivileges accorded to other fing Tap, and that z maudate should have Powers, including, of course, Japan, and been approved or attempted to be put relying upon the sense of justice of the into effect which, while purporting to be Government of Japan and of the Govern made in the name of the United States, was without the assent of the United States. My Government trusts that this action, which it must assume was taken under misapprehension, will be recon- midered..LECAPITULATION

mens of the other Allied and Associated Powers my Government looks with con hence to a disposition of the matter whereby, the just interests of all may be properly conserved

venture to add that notes similar

La particular, as no Treaty ban ever taneously to the Governments, of Great to the foregoing are being sent simul been concluded with the United States Britain, France and Italy, and that in rolating to the Island of Ypp and as no iew of the widespread interest in the one has ever been authorized to sede-subject and the public attention which it. or surrender the right of interest of the has already received. the notes will be United States in the Island, my Govern made public in Washington as-soon--d8 ment must insist that it does not lose they have been delivered to the respec

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