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THURSDAY, Arm 21, 1938.
BRITAIN LOOKS WELL AHEAD
Great Britain's persistent efforts to purchase war planes from the United States, the actual despatch of a mission to act for the Government in an attempt to persuade Washing ton to sell them, coupled with appeals by Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination
Caroline Is.
North Pacific
ofce an
Hawaiion Is. (USA)
Islets Claimed By United States
Canton
islets Claimed By Britain
15.
Enderbury.
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Locations of Tiny Coral Islands the United States and Britain are Planes Are Shown Calming as Landing Stations for Trans-Pacino
on Above Map. Landing Parties Have Taken Possession of Canton Ender bury,
PINPOINTS
in the
PACIFIC
ANTON ISLAND is shaped roughly "like a hollow pork chop," says the National Geo- graphic Society.
Canton and Enderbury islands are set out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and have just been claimed for the United States.,
They
yards wide and 27 miles in creum- ference encloses a quiet lagnon about nine miles long and three miles
Cross.
Most cloistered. clty folk cherish the yearning of someday living by a lagoon. But there are certain ob- fections to lagoon life on Canton.
It is, of course practically on the equalor, to be precise, 175 miles south. As a matter of fact members of the were visited and ex- American expedition had to
shift plored a year ago by the Nation- the island about one and one-third al Geographic Society-U.S. Navy miles further west and 6-10 mile Expedition which picked them further north-It seems all the pre-
vious maps were wrong about 1. out as superb grandstand seats Not that it mattered much in the for the total eclipse of the sun, vast expanse of the Pacific. on June 8, 1937. Canton Island and a landing also was made on was the base of the expedition
Enderbury.
The two little coral punctuation points on the page of the Pacific some 43 miles apart were visited because they were among the for points of hand within the entire 8,800 mile path of the eclipse shadow across the waters.
But to get back to the lagoon. This lagoon, it seems, is obstructed here and there with patches of coral, but there is one entrance from the sea, on the west alde, and through this the 1937 American expedition's motorboat carried supplics for land- ing on the beach.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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for thirty cents!"
The Films Have Gone Crazy
Cooper
by
PAUL HOLT
the
Riding on fire engines was the fam other day to cout the pill which looked like Take the Land Away from the Banks and Landlords and give it back to the People. (An argument proceeding at the moment with some vigour ot
WAS reading about how Gary refused to spank Claudette Col- bert with the fint of his hand during the making of a film call ed "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife."
It finally took Miss Colbert herself to persuade him, with a plea straight from the fine heart of womanhood, that she didn't mind the pain, the indignity. It was essential to the drama.
Teruel)
DON'T remember exactly
I when it was that I first
noted the Sinister creeping into the "Breakfast for Two." some, but I think it was a film called
This had, for no good reason, the patient Herbert Marshall standing The poor sap, he didn't know. with Miss Barbara Stanwyck in New York Central Station, both with Slapping actresses isn't just faces smeared by buttered tonst, while One of the difficulties with the
these an agitated clergyman wearing box- Island as a tourist resort is the lack essential to the drama
We Ing gloves tried to untie them for life. "A few cocoanut palms of shade.
growing on it, says the National days; it's the whole works. Geographie Soclety, but only few. are in the middle of a film cycle This seemed to me to offer some oppo-. Some day they may be the bust- The seabirds nest on the island, and far more significant than the his, sition to the dogma that marriage is
ling way-stations of the airplane of Defence, both to labour and routes across the Pacific. But
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TANNEN UN DOSTLAND
Asked
for
Again
Sole Agents:
THE CENTRAL
TRADING CO.
士披来士忌
Bank of Canton
Building.
COUNT THE
“TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
production of armaments, in-
urc
a solitary inhabitant would not feel lonesome for there are "considerable numbers of rats and hermit crabs."
For romantic interest there is "the
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wreck of a ship on the shere," and dicates the nation's concern for THE hungry man will continue to this supplied the Geographle group
visualize Canton Island as "a" with timbers for a wharf. permanence of Europe's hollow pork chop."
But aside from its shape there is If Mr. Chamberlain's little to remind visitors of food. A
the
peace.
policy of appeasement is not narrow strip of land from 50 to 100
exactly popular, he must be given
nation.
to
the most difficulties
ONE of the most serious identies
ing
$
May and June it
The Americans were on the islands
torical cycle, far more sinister than the gangster cycle.
It is anti-social; it is deplor- able. It is offensive and ing. It is great fun.
I
of
a sacrament.
THOUGHT occurs to me.
From there the thing hos sprad as quickly as a rumour at a foot- bali match. As I write, one by one. toppled over and moral values degrade traditions of society are being The minced to make tomato Jam. Powers of Derkness are having the. AM, personally, for reasons Umes of their long lives.
It is a
curious thing that the I hope to make hilariously
have made such Prednoses should clear, much in favour of it. But I'm blowed if I see how it gets by a row when the screen, with some water, both on Canton and Ender-
Legions of Decency, purity codes, timidity, was suggesting that Sex bury. The trouble with the drink-
and the whole para- was a
was a Sin. Now, the suggestion is women clubs, it water,
sppears.
that
aclivity that it is nothing more than a great phernalia Prodnasal credit for realising the necessity tish faith in the goodwill of that
there len't any. However, there
stand by, watch benevolently a re- big belly daugh. Which is surely volution in screen manners and more subversive, of guarding against the consequ-
But the most significant, and are lots of sea water, and all in- habitants would have to do would be
morals so thorough and cheerful and
And the Prodnoses do nothing irresistible that foundations of 90- I only hope they don't read this and ences of its failure. He is at the same time most hopeful to distill it, as the American exped!- a permanent
ciety are threatened.
woke up to what they've been miss- practical in that he perceives aspect of the mission's appoint- tion did. Of course,
Virtue is on the asheun; truth is a ing ment is in the suggestion that settlement might make arrangements
to catch rain water. that the best intentions of the it will possibly continue
Not only Sex. The law is having horse laugh. Although on the equator, the tem-
its leg pulled. And business and wulk British Government and most Canada to examine manufacturperature might have been worse, it
YOULD you care to
the truth and the habit of telling facilities there. At the is reported. In painstaking diplomacy on the ing
with me down the crazy constancy and good manners. las ebriation is no longer an artificial part of the Foreign Office may present time, however, Canada hovered between 80 and 90 degrees corridors of this Bediam?
It all started the day Miss Colbert device for comedy, but a thorough- not have the slightest restrain-is not in a position to supply but the continuously blowing trade
(who likes being spanked) lifted up going excuse for all villainy. Great Britain with any large winds helped to case discomfort. ing influence upon any power number of machines. In the rst, and last May 30 the expeditionum Powell got the idea at once a
her skirt to stop a passing car. Wil-
AFor years Tow,ts to mas on the sofa on whose programme of expansion, past, in fact, though the Do- dedicated a concrete monument on flashed HIS shins
Christmas morning, with the dubious been heard the plaintive note of at the expense of lesser states,minion produces all the required Canion, with two metal representa-
pretence that he wanted a beller rest the flim highbrow (a cross between is already mapped out. Britain materials, her modern fight- tions of the American flag on it. The
eclipse party from New Zealand got for an airgun with which be pro- the cheep of a canary and a rusty is arming, and as fast as hering craft have been bought to Canton on H.M.S. Wellington and posed to shoot down festive balloons, hinge) fluting the inability of the Students will note the delicate air screen to handle satire. Maybe this factories and her funds allow from Britain. But with the found the Americans already en-
recent decision to expand camped.
of decay introduced already. Where is it.
I would like some official "support her, not only for defence of her the Canadian Air Force, They found the dock and equip- as Miss Colbert, flashing her shins, did not have a hangover, Mr. Powell
for this incredible screen fashion, own possessions, should they be the industry has geared itself ment already bulit by the American
because I don't want it to dle just threatened, but in order that up and installed the necessary expedition most helpful in landing did.
matter rested awhile. yet. It has provided me with the best There the she may be in a position to back machinery for producing pursuit their own gear, especially the cargo
The screen was content to be crazy, game I have found in ten years of coconuts they had
There was a good deal of Left Wing alm-viewing. her final warning to aggressors machines. It may also manu- brought along for planting on a large
feeling, to be sure, in "My Man
There
are two ways of seeing Godfrey," which had a altwit heiress these outcast Alms. with a well-weighted big stick. facture bombers. If this indus area to the south of the camp.
try gets encouragement from
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No. 1 bring back down-and-outs
method is my present It is unfortunate that such Britain it will increase the rate
expedition family mansion as part of a treasure favourite. Correct behaviour is es-
hunt. methods should be necessary; of its expansion; and that is all DURING its stay the
You must sit down quietly, And Mr. Powell again, most ad chuckle brightly at the innocuous but it is u blessing that the to the good. For while Britain with living quarters Aaniding "Fifth
the British Government is alert to naturally will always depend Avenue and business offices, (prin- mirable of Old Crichtonians, doused bits. Always, of course, on
iser hysteries under a shower. Which keenest lookout for the first bit of upon the home industry for its cipally the photographic darkroom,
is what is known as putting the rich moral turpitude, disguised as a cus- the necessity.
chief source of supply, she will the radio shack, mess hail and line of
In their place.
tard pic, to come along.. Imme- lestruments) established on "Brond-
The same note occurred in Mr. diately one such does, you must act. It should not be thought that be in the happy position of pos- way." A makeshift cement mixer
Capra's "Mr. Dects."
In a loud volce you say "Disgusting!” because of the apparently hur-sessing a potentially high-speed was rigged up and put into service
If that has no effect, in a louder tone "IS THE CENSOR ASLEET?” ried effort to secure additional production unit out of harm's filling forms for instrument bases aircraft that the Government is way in time of war if she can and for the cement memorial marker
encourage the Canadian mantling imbedded. in any danger of panicking facturers to speculate. It has
As to Enderbury Island, the Geo- The reason for the approach to been suggested that American graphic Society does not liken it to the United States. for assistance companies might be prevailed a hollow pork chop" or anything is simple. The output of the upon to manufacture or as- cise, It used up all of its imagina
VI. is "oblong," barren and extremely British factories has not yet semble machines in Canada and tion on the first atoll. It just says thus evade the neutrality laws rough. Future inhabitants will find reached its maximum and the and the restrictions against ex-it 34 miles long and 11⁄2 miles wide. Industry's adaption to the extra-porting modern war planes. A firat rate coral reef surrounds ordinary demands is necessarily Such a course might very easily extending out from 100 to 200 yards
offshore. There is no
is no lagoon. The slow. It would be reassuring to prove offensive to American coral reef makes landing dimcult not advisable. and there doesn't seem to be a sat- know that American planes are people. It is available, even though they are Britain and Canada had much isfactory place to anchor. It seems not needed. And the request is better utilise their own very definitely an inferior place to Can- large resources. It is unwise to ton, although there are also rats and compliment to American lean upon even the best of
The highest polat on Canton is efficiency, and proof of the Bri- friends. in an emergency. only 10. foot above high tide com-
a
of about 1,000
built quite a thriving tent city,
left behind with the metal Americen
it is
hermit crabs.
to the
sential
The pleasure of observing a dozen pared with a regular hill on Ender- bury, fully 25 feet hight.
respectable citizens turning round to Returned Americans say that two HUSH in support of ribald and de- boards have been nalled to a tree moralising villainy is considerable. on Enderbury Island, one ciniming it in the name of King George V,
ETHOD No. 2, of course, the other in the name of King George making a noise, dating up the pro-
of
Officials of the Department of the gramme girl, slepping the thigh of Interior, who know about the Can- the young woman in the seat next to ton and Enderbury Islands, say the you, taking out a brandy flask and guano deposits and the generations guggling loudly, hiccuping, telling birds make the atmosphere aa blue story to the stranger on the lille short of salubrious. But there other side, and striking a match an the Islands are, equipped with a cen- the bald head of the gent in front. tral Ingoon, few but authentie palm In fact, modelling your behaviour trees, and ripe for an enterprising real as closely as possible on that of the estate agent.
hero of the photoplay you have come For somebody who doesn't care to see..
I think it is most unfale that I about shade or drinking water, and who likes solitude they are Ideat, should probably be arrested......