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 and the U.S.S.R. over Japanese fishing rights on the U.S.S.
 
                                                            
 
 
ely Japanese, was 7361 in 1940.  The islands produce sugar a
 
                                                            
 
 
occupation and claim in 1898.  U.S. sovereignty not subseque
 
                                                            
 
 
65. Japanese Mandated Islands - In 1914, after having declared War on Germany, Japan occupied all German islands in the Pacific north of the equator. The Principal Allied and Associated Powers, including the United States, throuh their representatives at a meeting on May 7, 1919, voted  
to confer on Japan a mandate for the "German islands north of the equator". This was a preliminary and conditional commitment, since the Treaty of Versallies had not been signed and the Principal Allled and Associated Powers were not in possession of Germany's "rights and titles".  Later,  
after the treaty had been signed (June 28, 1919) and the United States had refused to ratify it, the Principal Allied Powers, without the consent of the United States, allocated these German islands as a class C mandate to  
ns approved and confirmed the mandate charter which prescrib
 
                                                            
 
 
The Mandated Islands number over 600, and are scattered over an area extending 2,500 miles east and west, and 1,200 miles north and south. The population in 1938 was 50,998 natives, 71,847 Japanese, and 124 foreigners. The islands produce sugar, coconuts, fish products and  
                        phosphates.                         
 
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