THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL
1988
Japan Ready To Launch Ten-Year Plan
CLOSE-UP OF For South Sea Isles
EMPIRE NEWS
AUSTRALIA AND U.S.
CLAIM
Sydney.
The Federal Call a closely watching President Rusevelt's for mal claim to Canton and Enderbury Islands, in the Phoenix Group in the Puelfie, despite Britain's previous declaration of sovereignty by Order in Council.
Australian Ministers will discuss the matter in London. It is not ex- pected that the conflict of claims will hecome acute. Australlu favours some form of condominium control of these islands, which Britain and America both need as air mail bases. CANADA
NEXT CONSERVATIVE LEADER
Ottawa.
A choice of Conservative party lender to succeed Mr. Bennett in not expreted before the party conference In the summer.
Among those most favoured to suc- ceed Mr. Bennett as lender are; Mr. Vincent Massey, High Commissioner In London; Senator Melghen, the farmer Prime Minister; Mr. R. J. Manton, formerly Minister for Rall-| ways; and Mr. Murdoch MacPherson, formerly Attorney-General for Sas- katchewan.
Bir J. MacBrien's Funeral. — The funeral
of Major-Gen. Sir James MacBrien, late Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will take place on Tuesday.
30UTH AFRICA
WAR VETERAN'S
DEATH
JohannesburĮ!.
The death has occurred of Capt. H. L. Seligson, mentioned in despatches several tinica during the wor And twice decorated by the King for bra- very in the field. He was In ex- President of the Rotary Club.
Holiday Visitor-Sir Chartres Bi- ron, the former Bow-street magis- trate, arrived at Cape Town to-day on holiday visit to South Africa, The Earl of Leven and Melville bas also arrived.
Japanese Fined. The two Japan- ese who were charged at Cape Town on Saturday under the Defence Act with trespassing on forbidden terri tory were to-day found guilty. One of them was fined £3 or a month's imprisonment, and the other, who is o youth, was reprimanded. The ma- gistrate sald that there was nothing to indicate that the men wanted to ascertain military positions-Reuter. TANGANYIKA
DUTCH LINER ASHORE
Dar-es-Saluurn.
The Dutch liner Springfontein, 0,- 406 tons, stranded yesterday evening in the narrow entrance to the har- bour.
While leaving for the Cape, the liner suddenly turned inward 10- wards the shore. She rammed a ferryboat, which was lying alongalde the concrete couseway, and both went ashore with a grinding impact.
The crash was apparently not ser- lous, as the Springfontein was re- floated a quarter of an hour later by means of her own power and drag anchors.
QUEEN MARY
PICTURE TAKEN of Queso Mary as she was leaving Kensington Town Hall after visiting an exhibition and sale of handicrafts in aid of the Metropolitan Borough Tuberculosis Caro Committees.
JUST A FEW LINES
Cleveland,
Louis Abramson fled suit for divorce from his wife, Minnie, who claimed that when she asked for repaira on her false teeth, hen husband told her he needed a new set and that she could use his old set.
JUST A ROAD HOG
Gibbsboro, N.J.. Mar, 10.
New order from the New York relief bureau: “All persons on relief who have been driving around in automobiles must turn int their licence plates before they can get any more food."
MAN BITES DOG
Police recently reversed the usual process by "trailing" a blood- hound. Mrs. Rebecca McFadden's bloodhound was lost.
"Any left, I wonder?
VILTINE
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From teething time onwards, 'Ovaltino" Rusks are a great favourite with babies. Delicious, crisp and crunchy,, they give the natural biting exercise which helps so much to bring the teeth easily and comfortably through the gums, *. During childhood they keep the tooth sound and flim and ensure the correct forma- tion of the mouth. Made from the purest unbleached wheaton flour, “Ovaltino' Rusks contain the necessary vitamins and other valuable health-giving properties.
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60,000 MIGRANTS TO EX-GERMAN POSSESSIONS
WASHINGTON, MARCH,
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE JAPANESE - SOUTH ́ SEA ISLANDS IS READY TO LAUNCH A "10 YEAR PLAN" TO SPEED INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND TRANSPORTATION DE- VELOPMENT OF THE MANDATED ISLANDS,
Sixty thousand Japanese have into the former German Islands in the Pacific, which were occupied by Japan during the World War and entrusted to Japanese Mandate under authority of the Treaty of Versailles. Only 30 Japanese were in the islands at the time of occupation. The native. population then and to-day was about 5,000.
Important feature lending practically, to the "10 Year Plan" will be the provision of regular air service among the islands, the trunk line to connect the chief islands with Japan proper.
"According to the plan, the Japanese capital and Palao, which are
3,181 kilometers Manila Ready
apart, will be connected via Sal-
pan and Yap Islands in two days by a large flying boat, as against eight days by steamer" said a special article in the Osaka Mainichi Special Edition "America and Japan in Amity and Trade.'
on
For Quakes
By Don Dillon United Press Staff Correspondent
ANILA M
Manila, Apr. 26.
must prepare for another in a series of destructive earthquakes
"It is exported that one round trip a week will be made as from the 1038-39 fiscal year, when a passen- ger service will be opened between Tokyo and the South Sea Islands.
"It is the policy of the
Japanese government to promote the industrial that haye killed and injured and cultural progress among the natives and to send more agricultural thousands of persons here settlers and fishermen to the Man-in the past three centuries, dated Islands, thereby perpetuating
warns Edward R. Hyde, the Japanese administration of the
'southern life line in Japan's dean of the University of the Philippines' College of
national defence.
WORLD INTEREST
The Osaka edition provided the Engineering.
most extensive current information
Hyde is one of a committee of yet available concerning the Japan five men appointed by President
ese Mandated Islands, in
which
there is a steadily increasing world Manuel L. Quezon to recommend interest due to their vast strategical ways to avoid periodic heavy importance. Publle information here
concerning the 1,400 isicts and their damage and loss of life in the development has usually been ob- Philippine Islands, which lie in tained chiefly from Japan's annual one of the world's greatest report to the Mandates Commission earthquake belts.
of
the League of Nations.
The Maschi article hold that the arable land in the Mandated Islands is almost completely under cultiva tion, with a production valued at 24,000,000 yen annually.
MANY BIG SHAKES
Since 1609, the Philippines has felt | 64 earthquakes of intensity six or greater in the Rossi-Forei scale, Nine of them have been of Intensity len,
tremely destructive proportions. There have been thousands of shocks of intensity one, which only
The finances of the Islands were the highest on the scale and of ex- sald not only to have attained self- suficiency, but afforded a surplus of millions of yen to the treasury.
the
4X-
Industry of greatest importance is
perienced observers can feel. оп highly developed sugar, islands of Saipan, Tenian, and Rota, Greatest of all was the Earthquake' with on estimate yield exceeding of St. Andrews, in 1845. About 600
annually. The
plan- persons were killed and 3,000 Injured 10,000,000 vender the management of in Manila afone. One chronicler re tations are the Nanyo Konatsu K.K. (South Seas corded
Thut in provincial arcas Industrial Development Co., Ltd.) whole native villages disappeared, Other important agricultural pro- being either buried by landslides or ducts are rice, pineapples, sugar-sunk under water." The quake cane and cotton.
occurred
St. Andrew's day, November 30.
EASILY RAZED
GREAT FISH CENTRE The Mandated lsland's marine products, mainly bonito, amount to
on
5,000,000 yen annually. The bonito Many buildings in older sections fishing is carried on the year round. of Manila, Hyde pointed out, would "At present, as motor boats are be more easily destroyed by a great engaged in bonito catching. The earthquake now than a century or number includes 28 boats in Saipan, two ago.
in Palao, 17 in Truk,
.13 in Hyde's committee hus drawn a Ponape, and 2 in Jaluit. Tunny
construction code designed to make fishing in the nearby waters also has practically
the all bulldings In
30 in
a very bright future, although only archipelago of the earthquake-resis three boots aro now employed in tant type within 50 years after the catching funny. Operations are code's approval, carried on off Palao. Among other
shells.
and a graduated scale for the size of
as
marine products are sharks, horse- The code calls for a ban on build- takai, sordines, pearl shell, and lings exceeding 30 meters in height} "Coco-palm plantation is the main smaller buildings according to the line of forestry, in the Mandated number of occupants. It seeks com- Islands, Copra is the laland's prio-pulsory improvement in all types of cipal expert, amounting to 10,000 construction, well ILS greater tons a year. The copra production protection against fire hazards includ- will be trebled following an improvo- | ing construction of earthquake, ment in the arrangement of the resistant water mains. coco-palm plantations. Damaged by BUILDINGS CAUSE DEATH insects last year, about half of the 250,000 coco-palm trees at Saipan in the marianne group had to be cut down.
"Regarding the mining industry, rock phosphate is produced at Angaur and Perilu Islands, the pro- duction_amounting to 65,500 tons a year. The deposits are estimated at | 1,600,000 tens.”—United PreRS.
Bottle's 2 Year
• Voyage
Washington.
"An earthquake' in itself is not anngerous to human beings," Hyde anid. "If a person were in a vocant field during en earthquake he would suffer no greater damage than perhaps being thrown to the ground. The loss of life is due to the collapse of badly constructed buildings.
"The damage caused by earth- quakes is due to the back-and-forth horizontal motion of the ground, which has been described us similar to that of the skin of a horse when he shokes off a fly,"
CATHEDRAL REMINDER Illustrating the periodic destruc- tion by Philippines earthquakes, Hyde Almost exactly two years Cathedral of Manila, seat of the pointed to a historical marker on the after it was cast overboard off Catholic archdiocese of Manila, It San Jose, Costa Rica, a bottle rends in part:
was recovered at Samar, Philipp ....second cathedral built of atone pino Islands, a distance of about in 1584 was partly destroyed by the 9,000 miles.
earthquake of 1600; third cathedral The bottle was cast from the built in 1014 was destroyed by the United States steamer K.R. Kings fourth cathedral built in 1084-1001 by San Andrea earthquake of 1013; bury on December 21, 1930 by Migual Poblete was destroyed by the Second Oficer M. E. English. It was earthquake of June picked up at Samar on December 17,
1033
1097, according to the Hydrographic Manila's last major carthquake office of the Navy Department.
occurred August 20, 1997. It ruined u The two points are almost on a down town building housing the city's straight the along the 10 degrens largest department store and caused north latitude Une in the Pacife widespread damage olsowhere.", OceanUnited Pres.
United Praxx.
Tell me,
doctor..
. What is a
mother to do! Why, the scratch was so small you could hardly see it: blood-poisoning never entered my mind. After all, children can't s still all day-though I have asked Freddie not to play in that shed. But, I mean, it might happen to any of usa cut, a little scratch! Tell me what is one to do?"
The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to enter. To the germs that cause the havoc, a tiny break in the skin is a wide-open door. There is only one way to prevent their invasion; they must be killed-ot once. 'Dettol,' the Modem Antiseptic, can be applied immediately, there are directions on every bottle. This thorough killer of germa is gentle and tender on human tissues. Non- poisonous and non-staining to the skin, yet death to gernis. "Dettol' promptly used may save you untold pain and danger.
The way to exfuty ---- Bay = bottle of "Detto?" from your chimnat now and be ready.
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