 On October 5, the First South Seas Squadron anchored off Kusaie; on the seventh it arrived at the island of Sokehs and entered Ponape Harbor; and on the twelfth the , followed by a cruiser escort, entered Truk Lagoon where the Japanese businessman and adventurer Mori Koben witnessed the vessels at anchor.In the west, Matsumura in the , escorted by two cruisers, sailed into the harbor at Yap much to the consternation to the Royal Australian Navy which had been on its way north to do so; on 7 October, a landing party was put ashore at Koror in the Palaus; on the ninth Angaur and its German phosphate mines were in Japanese hands; and on the fourteenth, the battleship dropped anchor in the roadstead off Garapan Town on Saipan.The Japanese occupation of Micronesia with the except of the American colony of Guam and the British Gilberts was complete.