What "South Seas"

Means

NEWSPAPERS continue to put sensa tional headings over Japan’s fre quent references to the “South Seas”, when outlining her foreign policy.

Pacific Islands readers should under stand that when Japan refers to the “South Seas” she is referring to the seas southwards of Japan and generally northwards of the Equator—the seas which wash the shores of Japan’s own mandated islands, the Philippine Islands, and, maybe, the Dutch East Indies.

Europeans, by “South Seas”, usually mean that part of the Pacific Ocean south of the Equator. Hence the con fusion, and alarm.