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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.
COLONIZATION OF
PACIFIC ISLANDS
Plan Being Carried Out Successfully
IMPORTANCE OF AIR ROUTES
WILS
Honolulu, T. H. (By Mail); Guano Islands held by the United -Colonization and annexation by States. In 1872 it was found the the United States of Howland, Į U.S.9. Narragansett had taken pos- Baker and Jarvis islands has given session and Christmas was occupi- this country a strategic advantage¦ ed" by three. Honolulu settlers, who in the impending race to girdle the subsequently departed. it Pacific with airlines, and has claimed. A Frenchman, reported brought into prominence the ques to be a Catholic priest, is under-
of tion of ownership
stood to hold that island at pre- other tiny islands scattered sent under an 87 year lease from throughout the vast ocean and the British government. considered of international Im- portance in connection with air
rcules.
numerous
Rescued, from oblivion by the airplane. their resurrection has brought up a host of unsettled problems and conflicting claims as to territorial rights.
The United States. observers here believe, has an important advantage the race by virtue of the already established Pan American clipper schedules, and it has followed this up by turning Its attention to islands which are strategically located for future air lines to Austraila and New Zea- land.
Howland, Baker and Jarvis, Iring south of the equator in Mid Paci- flc, have been occupied in line with a proclamation by President Roosevelt declaring them Amèri can territory, and plans are being earried out to govern and control them as an integral part of the United States possessions. A radio-telephone call from Wash- Ington early in June sent the coast guard cutter Itasca steam- ing back from the islands of Maut- to Honolulu. where it hurriedly loaded a cargo of provisions and took on twelve Hawalian boys who were left, four on each island, as colonizers of Howland. Baker and Jarvis.
"SPUR" LINE Similarly important in the fu ture quest for shortest aerial con- nections between the United States and Japan. Marcus Island may cause those twq, countries to bar- | gain for sovereignty. Marcus, a wreck-stewn atoll. les roughly 720 miles northwest of Wake atoll, Pan American Airways' present mid- pacific base point, and within fly- ng distance of Midway Island. The island is strategically situated for a "spur line to Tokyo, cutting the present avaliable route by thousand of miles.
Capt. Rosehill is said to have claimed the island for the United
States in 1699 while Japan bases' her claim upon the accidental visit of a sea captain, driven there in a storm. Both countries claim sovereignty.
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Some observers also expect Ger- many to seek repossession of thej Pacifc islands she formerly held, now administered largely by Ja- pan which has announced she is retaining her League of Nations mandate over them although quit- ting the league, Many of these border the present Pan American route to Guam, while the Marian- nas lle strategically along a path- way northward of Guam to Japan.
TIM
ITS TIMING ACCURACY.
In addition to their possible uses in connection with civilian air transportation, the importance as military outposts and refueling stations of the three islands has beer recognized by the U. 8. navy. Rumours are current here that the navy is as much interested in sub-
London, July 25. stantiation of the United States
Yesterday evening the Post- claim to the islands as are private
three master-General Inaugurated the aviation companies. The tiny bits of land would, if utilized latest development of the telephone service. Henceforth subscribers by the navy, vastly extend the
to dial TIM to be in- line of strategic outposts which has have only Its extremes in the Panama Canal formed, and mellifluously. Inform- zone and in Alaska and its spear-ed, of the hour of day. The Inno- head in the Hawaiian islands.
PROSPECTIVE AIR ROUTES Other nations, according to Rep. James P. Buchanan of Texas who 'sponsored an administration up- propriation of $35.000 for coloniza- tion and government of the 13- lands, have "their eyes upon thein and are preparing to take posses- sion of them physically."
vation, though it,must clearly be viewed with lawn' in clock-making circles, is a welcome one. Many of us do not own clocks; more of us wn clocks which do not go; and it' is possible that some of us have Lever learnt to tell the time. So TIM fulfills a need. In certain quarters, nevertheless, the new de- vice is suspect. The unpunctual do not relish this reduction in the Ray A. Kleindienst. an adminis- margin of human fallibility; the trative officer in the territories and breathless plea "My clock "was insular possessions of the depart-"wrong" which has so often con- ment of Interior, and R. B. Black,doned their arrival a few lengths field representative of the depart behind the fish, will now ment, arrived here in mid-July to even thinner than before. supervise arrangements for admin- Nor. if may be supposed, can the istration of the possessions. Klein- Post Office contemplate with en- dienst, who will be stationed here tire serenity the vista it has open- permanently, said the intention of ed: for people will hardly be satis- the government is "to perpetuate fed with being told the time and the sovereignty of the United will demand still further extensions States over these islands."
of this service. The date," for in- He pointed out that Howland stance, is with many of us a matter and Baker are on the line of ajat almost perpetual uncertainty. prospective air route to Australia. and even the vested interests of and Jarvis on the route from the calendar-makers will hardly Hawaii to New Zealand.
be able to avert the inevitable
once
sound
Among the many other islands coming of DAT. Then, there are considered worthless com- the lighter. spirits, the men care- mercially because they le away less of chronology, who do not in from established steamer lines, is the least want to be told the time Christmas Island, which has been but who would like to dial LIM described by aeronautical experts and be told a limerick. The possi- as the most adaptive seaplane base bilities are indeed unlimited; and it between Honolulu and American is to be hoped that the Postmaster- Samoa A coral atoll, encircling General has not created, in TIM, a placid and deep lagoon, the is- land lies approximately 1,200 miles southward of Hawaii and 200 miles northeastward of Jarvis;
Although its position is too far eastward to beneft" a direct Hawaii-Australia air line, Christ-
route
will be
i
the embryo of a monster as in- tractable as Frankenstein's. "
PEERAGE TITLES
The titles taken by the recipients más is strategically situated for or the four peerages conferred in the day, concidently forseen by the Brithday Honours List are: some observers, when a strategic Baron. Cantley of Lindfield in the established from County of Sussex (Bir Henry Caut- mainland and United States or ley), Baron Halley of Shahpur in South America to the Antipodes.. the Punjab and Newport Pagnell in Successive occupation of the is the County of Buckinghamshire land has shrouded the identity of (Sir Malcolm Hadley). Baron Aus- its present possessor, although tia ef: Longbridge in the City of] Great Britain clains sovereignty. Birmingham (Sir Herbert Austin) Discovered by Capt. James Cook and Baron Wardington of "Ain- on Christmas day 1777. it was re-mouth in the County of Northum-
ported by an American' captain berland (2&r and ones was listed among the Pease).
W. Beaumont
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