Map showing, with those of other Powers, the American possessions in the Pacific. The United States has the longest coast-line of any nation on the Pacific; for its protection the Islands formerly under German control, held by the Japanese and British during the war, have been assigned, according to American Navy in these waters should be second to none. the terms of the Peace Treaty, to the mandatory of the Allied nations as follows: "The German Samoan Island-The mandate shall be held by New Zealand. The other German Pacific posessions south of the Equator, excluding the German Samoan Island and Nauru--the mandate shall be held by Australia. Nauru (Pleasant Island)-the mandate shall be The German Pacific Islands north of the Equator-the mandate shall be held by Japan." The German Colonies in the Pacific Ocean north of the of the United States By HENRY CHUNG, A. M. With Introductory Note by Research Professor of Government and Public Admin- To The Chinese Students in America whose mission it is to emancipate their country from the iron-bound traditions of the past and to instil the spirit of Western civilization into their ancient culture, so that China henceforth will be not a passive and self-contained nation but a progressive and dynamic power taking its place, along with the United States, in the family of the world's democracies |