Yap Controversy, Us Newspaper Articles

Author(s) Unknown (1920-02-23). "Yap Controversy, Us Newspaper Articles". New York Times.

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Abstract: Series of articles in the New York Times dealing with the so-called Yap Crisis in the earlty 1920s. The seizure of Yap by the Japanese in 1914 and the diversion of the Yap-Shanghai cable to a Japanese island, Nawa in the Ryukyus, deprived Americans of this alternative route and meant that, whenever the Guam-Manila service was interrupted, all American cable traffic with China and the Philippines had to pass through Japan. Japan did ultimately acknowledged the special interests of the United States in Yap, but the matter never actually went beyond formal acknowledgment. In 1925, when the cable service between Yap and Guam was interrupted, the United States Navy, when approached by the State Department on the subject, declared that since the cable was not a naval undertaking the Navy would take no action. As late as 1929 the United States still retained technical control over the Yap-Guam cable, but there is no indication that it was in effective operation at that time.