Word: nauru
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...small British islands, Nauru and Ocean, just south of the Japanese-mandated Marshall Islands, were taken...
...wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer...
...nations may send at least 100 annually to the U. S. Bhutan (in the Himalayas), the British Cameroons, Liechtenstein, Muscat, Nauru, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Yap and ten others sent none...
...wisdom in not accepting a mandate over Armenia (which has since become a Soviet republic). Other mandates held by Britain are: Palestine, parts of German East Africa, Togoland and the Cameroons, Southwest Africa (held by the. Union of South Africa), German New Guinea (held by Australia), the Nauru and Samoan Islands (held by New Zealand...
Though having yearly quotas of 100 each, the following regions seldom send immigrants to the U. S.: Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, British Togoland, French Togoland, French Cameroon, Tanganyika, Nauru, New Guinea...