Annual Report to the League of Nations on the Administration of the South Seas Islands Under Japanese Mandate for the Year 1924

Japanese Government (1925-12-10). Annual Report to the League of Nations on the Administration of the South Seas Islands Under Japanese Mandate for the Year 1924 (Report). Geneva: League of Nations. p. 76.

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Abstract: Submitted to the Council of the League of Nations in accordance with Article 22 of the Covenant and examined by the Permanent Mandates Commission during its Seventh Session, October 1925.The annual report to the League of Nations on the Administration of the South Seas Islands under Japanese mandate for the year 1924 was received by the Secretariat on October 15th, 1925, and examined by the Permanent Mandates Commission on October 23rd, 1925 in the presence of the accredited Representative of the Japanese Government, M. Y. Sugimura Counsellor of Embassy, Assistant Director of the Japanese League of Nations Office...

GENERAL REMARKS "1. History of Administration. — On the occupation of the South Seas Islands north of the equator, formerly possessed by Germany, in October, 1914, by an expedition of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the commander of the expeditionary forces at once placed the territory under a military administration, taking charge thereof in his hands. On December 28 of the same year, an Extraordinary South Seas Islands Defense Corps was created to replace the expeditionary forces in respect to the defense and administration of the islands. In December, 1920, when the Council of the League of Nations approved stipulations with regard to the mandatory rule of the islands, the Imperial Japanese Government began to make preparations for carrying it out and in April, 1921, inaugurated the mandatory administration of the territory. Subsequently, in order to reap a satisfactory result in the work entrusted to it, the Imperial Government introduced, in April 1922, reforms in the administrative system for the islands, and replaced the Extraordinary South Seas Islands Defense Corps with an administrative organ of entirely civil nature, creating for that purpose the South Seas Bureau. At the same time the military forces hitherto stationed in the islands were completely withdrawn...

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