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THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1937.
Small Pacific Island Key To
New Air Route
EXISTENCE WAS ONCE OFFICIALLY DENIED
New York, April 15..
The smallest son island in the world-so small and obscuro that the United Staton State Department; for years, donicd the `possibility of its "öxistenco has bocomo a kay to South Pacific air
routes.
It is Kingman Reef, a little strip of sand scarcely three feet above the high water level of the sea, ninety feet wide and-one) hundred and twenty feet long, and a thousand, miles from the nearest human habitation. Kingman is the first stopping point south of Honolulu when the Pan American Clipper pioneers the first air route across the Pacific to Australia,
Although engineers of the Fan American Airways spaten have been conducting weather and marine studies of it since 1934 and the United States Government confirmed claims to its ownership two years ago, Kingman Reef was officially "unknown" until twelve years ago.
Some seventy years previously Captain John Kingman, of
Mr. Tim Carter of London, rood in a newspaper that an Ohio doctor had the American trading schooner, "Shooting Star," first reported piled 3,685 matches into a "battic sighting a reef over which the long north-east swells of the lower". So Mr. Carter bought scores Pacific were breaking in a general location of 168° West Longitude of boxes of matches and began a tower. He has now passed the 7 North Latitude. For a number of years thereafter other 4,400-imark gad is still going strong! sailing ships chanced upon shoals near the same spot. A legend grew about an "isle of mystery."
Not until 1921, however, was any official word recorded. In that year the U.S. Eagle, en route to Honolulu from Samon, report- 'ed seeing dry land at the position of Latitude 6°23′ N. Longitude
162°18′ W.
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John Galsworthy's Best Seller One More River
Dynamited
London, April 15,
the
Salvage operations in former Cunard liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1915, with a loss of 1,198 lives, are expected to begin this month.
In 1922 Lorrin P. Thurston, pub- 1sher of the Honolulu Advertiser, found the island, went ashore and wrote a story of his visit. Two years later W. G. Anderson also visited the island and planted three coconut trees there. With this addi- tional evidence the United States Navy sent on expedition to the spot
to chart the mysterious "island" as
World War Of
Ideas
New York, Apr. 15.
The people of the world are
n bazard to navigation. So the tiny now waging "wars of ideas" Island was tally recognised official- which may alter the lives of men' ly and uppeared for the first time on ocean charts in 1926.
as completely as have scientific
Ten years later Washington placed advances of the last 50 years, it offelally under the jurisdiction of Hugh Baillie, president of the the Navy.
Located 11,000 miles south and United Press Associations, told
west of Honolulu, Kingman Reef is the Brooklyn Rotary Club. considered to be in the Territory of Hawali. Lying at almost the exact
The
ןןס
"Wars of ideas," Baillie said, It is planned to break the ship geographical centre of the Pacific, it
1s some
thirty-five miles from "can be just as devastating in under water by explosives, Palmyra and five hundred tiles froin
effect
the Two obstacles hitherto have pre-Christmas Island, of which Great the ultimate vented the salvage of the Lusitania, Britain only recently began to main-trend of lives and the happiness which, in addition to its value as inin.
of men as those conducted with tic only
between spol scrap metal, is believed to contain
Islands The first was Hawaiian valuable jewellery.
American high explosives. History is full ignorance of the position of the hull, Samon which offers protected waters of wars of ideas which de. and the second the lack suitable in mid-ocean for blg ocean-going diving equipment.
seaplanes, Kingman Reef is a large veloped into fierce fighting of horseshoe-shaped coral barrier cut the bloodiest kind. We now
for pletely awash at high tide except sures scarcely as much as four city the little strip of cand which inca have one in Spain. Happily, in sures
and
The finer is believed to have been locnted by echo-sounder apparatus by Capt. Henry B. Russell, of Glasgow in command of an expedition in the 459-ton Ophir in October, 1935, at a blocks. The reefs, however, cheluse our country, we seem to have point 11.2 miles from Kingsale Head, sheltered lagoon with a strong developed a technique of avoid- Ireland. The sounder recorded an barrier of coral formation to break object 760 feet long and 84 feet in the ocean swells on the north, east ing such results, a system of
and south. The landing area height. These were the dimensions and
thus give and take, argument, de- formed is several miles on of the Lusitania.
James more than ample for the slant clip-bate, negotiation and voting, per ships. Comptras rely open at which enables us to limit the Jarratt,
the broad end. stood on the deck, but was compelled the
the lagoon can be by rough weather to return to the entered by heavy draft vessels. The violence to occasional rough- surface before he made extensive Pan American supply ship, North houses at the scenes of strikes. explorations.
Subsequentlyed to the vessel me
AT DERTH OF 300 FEET............
The giant liner lies in more than
#side-
Wind, has already gone into the lagoon and charted a series of clear landing.channels.
As yet uninhabiled, the tiny island
"However, our own war of Ideas
goes-right- along, and at this very moment there is stubborn fighting on buse Supreme Court and the C.1.0.
300 feet of water, while the ordinary will have a powerf direction ind- several important fronts such the diving dress is limited to a maximum ing radio stations and other depth of 180 feet. This obstacle has equipment-United Press.
been overcome by the invention by J.
A. Peress of an all-metal diving suit
capable, it is said, of working at a depth of over 1,300 feet.
This suit has been
Ness
Crested in Loch at depths of 400 feet, and in a pressure tank at a pressure of 000 pounds per square inch, which corres- ponds depth of 1,320 Icet, ac-
to вер cording to
to Peress. With it the Argonaut Corporation,
which is the
salvage firm concerned,
plans the salvage of six other vessels,
and
"L.G." Now
Exonerated By Gough
NEWSPAPERS' WORK
cn-
that
"The highly controversial nature of these issues places a tremendous res- ponsibility upon those of us in the United
Press who have been trusted with the great task of bring- ing you fair, impartial, uncoloured accounts of what is going on, so that everyone may understand what is at stake, what is involved, and decide for himself on which side he desires be to fight. Every bit of news must weighed for truth, and handled with the undertaking of sponge prari GENERAL Sir Hubert Gough, due regard for its actual signi
and importance, so Scance and shell (mother-of-pearl) fishing. hero of the Firth Army, the day to day history of these events The world's shallow-water pearl and who Was vindicated by Mr. may be told accurately, completely, sponge beds are in many localltles approaching exhaustion, and the new Lloyd George for the part he with no taint of bias or prejudice," diving suit is said to have opened the played in the 1918 retreat, has
"Upon honest reporting of this possibility of exploiting deep-lying himself exonerated Mr. Lloyd character depends the ability of the
George.
people to see clearly what is happen- The new diving suit represents a
ing, and to express their will as to different method in that employed by
At a Fifth Army dinner which what they want. the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, which has recovered some £800,000 Mr. Lloyd George missed owing
"The evil effects of having this In bar, gold from the liner Egypt, to a cold-General Gough said clear vision obscured, through any in- Peress has worked on the suit that at the time of the retreat terference with a free press, are since 1913, and began about 1920 to Mr. Lloyd George was grossly incalculable, achieve success. "PEG of OLD DRURY”
misinformed. PRESSURE RESTRICTS MOBILITY The problem was to articulate the and legs of the. sult while preserving water-tightness and free-
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H.K. EUGENICS
LEAGUE FIRST ANNUAL. MEETING
KONGMOON DOCTORS
INSPECTION PARTY PAYS VISIT TO HONGKONG
The Kongmoon and. Sunwul Doc- tors Association, which conducts an
The first annual meeting of the annual inspection tour of different Hongkong Eugenics League was held cities in China, chose Hongkong this in the Jacobean Room of the Hongar, and arrived in the Colony on Saturday. Yesterday they were en- kong Hotel, yesterday, when the tertained by the Hongkong and report and accounts were approved Centon Export Co. Ltd, at tea in the by the meeting.
Gloucester where Professor W. C. W. Nixon, the Pre-were M, Serge Leboco do e Rusis Foulardo sident, was in the chair, the atten- (Vice-Consul for France), dance including the Hon. Mr. R. A. D. Clearce (Swalow Customs Commis- Forrest, Lady Clara Ho Tung, Nirs, sioner), M. C. Arnulphy (Manager, H. G. Seth Smith, Dr. H. Talbot, Mr. Hongkong and Canton Export Co. Ngan Shing-kwan, Dr. D. Laing, Dr. Ltd.), Messra. Yuen Kom-to, Kam Cheung-ying, Chan Yin-kwan and K., C. Yeo, and others.
Kam Cheung-fol,
Professor Nixon moved that the constitution of the League be altered
During their visit here the party to allow of more than one, Vice-Pre-visited most of the medical institu- aldent, Hon. Secretary and Hou, tions in the Colony, including the Treasurer. The meeting approved Queen Mary Hospital and the Hong- of the change.
kong University. They returned Jast night-Central News...
The Hon. Mr. Forrest thanked the Honorary Auditors, Messrs. Thomes Le C. Kuen & Co., for their servicce during the year.
affairs followed the meeting. The President said he was gind on The officers of the League ciecled this occasion to exercise the pre-were: rogative of the Chairman In having
Patrons, Mr. Eu Tong-sen, the last word. He could not let the
Robert meating close without thanking at Kadoorie; President, Professor W. C.
Mr. Ho-tung. W. Nixon; Vice-Presidents,
80
to
all
Sir
Lawrence
Dr. A.
G.
Tung, Dr. E. Ho Tung, Mrs.
"In order to have a complete op- preciation of the war of ideas on the Owing to his wrong information, continent of Europe, you have to
for their assistance In establishing realize that in practically every coun- dom of movement. Ordinary joint-sald General Gough, Mr. Lloyd try, dictatorship of one kind or au-
the League. It was now firmly on Ing is made immobile from friction George, as Premier at
Its feet, and he hoped would grow Woo, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo; Hon. other is an imminent possibility, under the enormous pressure of water.made severe criticisms and allocated even.
from strength to strength with each Secretaries, Mr. S. S. Fu, Dr. K. C. it hasn't already
Hon. Treasurers, Hon. Mr. R. American inventors constructed
blame to the Fifth Army for the "The rise of the dictatorship idea
succeeding year. Thanks were due
D. Forrest, Mr. but ball-bearing joint, which still suffered March retreat in which we were so abroad has been puzzling to many in
W. A..
Zimmer not only to the Committee
Executive Committee, Rev. great stiffness,
who had disastrously involved."
this country who could not under-
generously given
Gerrard, Lady found some success with a Peress
donations. It was perhaps invidious Carpenter, Prof. W. I stand how the dictators got into Joint
enibodying oll-filled rubber
to singlo
out any one individual, but frat in the power
place,
On balls, but after an hour's use these
he would just mention the name of CF Hole, Dr. L. 0. Hunter, Dr. my last trip balls would break up. Finally he
to Europe I Was the Hon. Mr. Forrest for what He W. Kirk, Dr. D. Laing, Mrs. Lum had been told it
demonstrated
forward Trai-yan, Mr. Lo based his design' on the hu
human joint,
Wing-kit, had done and was doing to forward that, after the old governments had
the League. He had done sterling Morris, Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan,
Dr. J. H. Montgomery "synovium" containing employing {
"Having come to the conclusion fallen and the old captains and kings
work ever long hours in circularising E. M. Raymond, Miss T. H. Shin, oil. It is said that the limb is so freely suspended that it is swayed that much of the information was had departed and the people had
supporters and informing the public Dr. A. Sydenham, Dr. H. Talbot, Me by the tide, and that the claw untrue and that the blame was un-through a period of privation, revolt,
their alms, with the result that w. A. Zimmern; Hon. Members, Mrs. operates so delicately that single coins fair, he has had the generosity and uncertainty and apprehension, they
they now had a balance in the bonic can be picked up and ropes can be the greatness of mind publicly to say were usually ready to trade in reeved with it.
so on more than one occasion, and dividual liberty for security and
sider it a good bargain."." The sult contains its own supply to put it on record in his memoirs.
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of oxygen sufficient for B or 10 hours, and is in telephonic communication with the salvage ship. Thus, it la hoped, the diver will be
able to penetrate any part of a sunken vessel, place charges, and remove portable objects
Mr. Lloyd George, said the general, coulé lavo
casily smoothed his conscienco by "let- Ling sleeping dogs llo" after no many years.
"Only a very great man will admit he was wrong, and havo 'the courage to allow his nimis.
alon to be published. "For these qualities we cannot but admire and thank him."
“Not To Blame”
Cone
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Baillie said that danger of general military conflict. in Europe appears at the moment to be receding. Ho. cited three outstanding factors, which are powerful influences toward pence in Europe to-day: Britain's heavy rearmament programme which will enable that nation to maintain a mer foreign policy, the defensive
E-
The method employed by the Artiglio is the lowering of divers in
shell containing windows--and, in - Mr. Lloyd George sent a message, strength of the Soviet red army and one case, "arms" and "legs." From which was read at the dinner, in the Russian alliance with: France, this they direct, by telephone, the which he reiterated that "General and the fact that Italy has fulfilled lowering of a grab, or a suction Gough was not at fault, and if is lis. Immediate desire for colonial ex- mechanism, and signsi when the jaws iniquitous that he has still to bear the pansion by acquiring Ethiopia.— are to be closed-United Pres
official blama..
United Preu,
Mr.
thi
Mr.
of $2,400. This gratifying position of M. Sanger, Mrs. E. How-Mortyn. the League was almost entirely-duc-
Medical Committee, Prof. W. C. W. to the Hon. Mr. Forrest.· ́ (Applause). Nixon. (Chairman), Prof. W. L Gerrard, Dr. E. Ho Tung, Er. L. 0. Officials Re-Elected
Hunter, Dr. E. W. Kirk, Dr. D. Laing, The officials of the League for the Dr. J. H. Montgomery, Dr. A. Syden ensuing year were re-elected en bloc, ham, Dr. H. Talbot, Dr. A. Woo, Dr.. with the addition of the Hon. Mr. K. C. Yeo. M. K. Lo (Vice-President) and Mr. W. A. Zimmern (Hon. Treasurer); D. Forrest, (Chairman), Mr. E. M. Mrs. M. Simon was not re-elected Raymond, Miss T. H. Shin, Mr. W. to the Committee us it was under A. Zimmern. stood that she would not be return
ing to the Colony.
Finance Commitee, Hon. Mr. R. A.
Publicity Committee, Mrs. G. F.
Some discussion on the League's Hole, Dr. A. Woo,
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