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BRITAIN LOSES

THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936.

THREE ISLANDS

"Annexed, Colonised" By American Statesman

POLYGAMISTS ON TRIAL

1. E. Spencer and Price Johnson, recently convicted of prae- tieing polygamy in Arizona, leave Kingman jall for the

Atate penitentiary Florence. The Short Creek polygamists were un- able to raise $3,000 bond for release pending appeal and chose to serve time in the penitentiar y awafting the appeal. With the

· convicted men is Sherif Ernest Graham, right,

British Flying_Clubs

3,500,000 MILES IN A YEAR

There was another large increase in private flying in England last year.

Twenty-seven of the 33 subsidised flying cluba have

sent in complete reports for 1935, showing an aggregate membership of 7,738. A year ago the total for all 33 club

was 7,490, and 12 months previously it was only 4,800.

Of the club members actually school at White Waltham has only engaged in flying there were 4,271,jbeen open for a few weeks, an increase of about 100 in the year.

LINKS ON THE NEW AIR ROUTE OVER THE OCEAN

THREE British islands in the Pacific have been

"annexed" by the United States of America.

They are small coral islands, almost exactly half-way between Hawaii and Australia. Their importance lies in their position on the Pacific air route.

No official statement has been made on the subject either in Britain or in America. The facts of this extraordinary situation have come to light through a Hawailan publicity

bureau.

TREBITSCH LINCOLN PLANS MONASTERY IN EUROPE

·Singapore. Feb, 18. Trebitach Lincoln, one-time member of Parliament, who is now living in China да the Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung. writes to one of his followers Ju Singapore:

"I want to leave the East for good, and to found 11

Buddhist monastery in Europe. I shall then retire and wait until this tottering and crazy civilisation has disappeared.”

Lincoln Maya that he intends to visit Singapore, and then he will charter a ship to sail to Spain by way of the Cape.

As he was refused permission to infid th Britain when he ar rived at Liverpool in 1934, it is doubtful whether he will be per- mitted to land in Singapore.-- United PrcaR,

The House They Gave The King

Cobham (Surrey), Feb. 20, Nestling in the lovely woods of a Surrey estate a house to which the Empire's finest brains have been applied stands unfinished.

(the King's tradesmen)

to

51 Women Owners Complete statistics of the year's The aggregate flying time waaying will not be available until 39,008 hours, which in distance the Air Ministry'a report for the flown means about 3,500,000 miles, year is published next October. It was the Jubilee gift of the These figures take no account of That report will also give a statis- Royal Warrant Holders' Associa- unsubsidised clubs, nor of alx sub-tical, abstract showing the very tion xidised clubs which have not yet rent increase in British air line King George. fully reported, nor of flying on trafic on the Empire routes and "air scooters, as the low-powered within the British Tales. "aying fleas" and other machines The number of civil aircraft on of that cluss may be called.. the Joint Aviation Advisory Com- -----in-the-27-clubs referred to, 550mittee's register is 1.648. compared pilots qualified for the "A" certi-with 1,240 a year ago. Of the pre- sent total 72 belong to Imperial fente, and 123 for the "B," or com-Airways and 609 are privately-own- mercial pilot's licence.

led (B1of them by women). Strain on

Itecent figures from other coun- tries are: United Slatea, 6.876;

Aircraft

The moving figure in the an- noxation In Dir. Samuel Wilder. King, the Hawaiian, dolegate to the United States Congress.

The threo islands, which aro named Jarvis, Baker and Howland, were discovered by an American South Seas trader in 1832, 1835 and 1842 respectively.

The Union Jack has always been flown on them, they have always appeared as British possessions on the map, and are listed in the British Colonial Office Year Book.

The American claim is based on the assertion that British owner- ship cannot be legally recognised because it is not occupational ownership,"

Congressman King has "colo- nised, the Islands by settling small groups of "American citizens" of Hawaiian birth on cach.

Richest Coral Island

A gesture latended to emphasise the American ownership of the islands was made recently, when Mr. J. Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs in Honolulu, refused to' have his luggage examined on returning from a visit to the islands, claiming they were American territory.

Reports have been publiskred In America that the annexation has gone a step further, and Congressman King Is reported to have "colonised" Christmus Island for America.

Christmas Island is the largest and probably the richest coral faland in the world. It les 1,800 miles due south of the Hawaiian Islands.

The accusation of lack of "occu- pational ownership" cannot be made in this case. There are two settlements on Christmas Island. Both are British. One is called London and the other Paris.

In a statement published by the It was known as the "King's Hawailan Publicity Bureau Con- House."

King George chose the gressman King admits that Christ- plans and inspected n model be-mas Island is "generally cousi- forehand. The choice of a tenant dered British, but says it "may. be the next coral atoll of the was to have been left to him.

South Seas to-find-a-place- under- the American flag."

Now it is to be presented to King Edward VIII.

"We shall hold a meeting to con- sider the handing over of the house to King Edward," an official

sociation said.

Club-flying is a severe ordeal for France, 1.033: and. Germany, of the Royal Warrant Holders' As« aircraft, for it involves continual 1.678.

scenta and landings, often rough Jundings by pupils, a consideration] which makes all the more remark- able the intensive work of some of the clubs and schools.

For example, Brooklands Flying

Club, with seven aeroplanes, made an aggregate of 4,525 flying hours, or 648 hours per machine. The Hamp whire Club, with fire acroplanes and an aggregate of 2.051 hours, aver aged 410 hours per machine.

BIBLE LEAVES

OLDER THAN CODEX

..

FOUND IN EGYPT

Later he states "whether or hot United States will ûnd a way to acquire Christmas Island re- mains to be seen.”

"Ownership Complate"

In the same statement he admits that Washington Island and Fan- ning Island, near Christmas, aro British, but says "If the United States could acquire Fanning and Washington from the British her ownership of everything in the mid-Pacific revolving about Hawaii would be complete."

Much training in preparation for MR. A. CHESTER BEATTY, the sixty-year-old Ameri- the complications,

the Royal Air Force, and also for commercial fiving, is carried on at'

can millionaire who became a naturalised English lying schools which are not clubs., recently bought from an Egyptian dealer a quantity North Sen Aerial and General of ancient manuscript; he found that it included further Transport, at Brough, near Hull, leaves of St. Paul's epistles, parts of which were found some had an aggregate of 8,023 flying! hours, all done on 16 Blackburn years ago.

Trainers. There were 338 pupils! The whole of the manuscript is

at this school, including pilots of shortly to be published.. the Reservo undergoiniz, annual "refresher courses.

Sir Frederie Kenyon, former Di- rector and Principal Librarian of

The De Havilland schools at Iat the British Museum, who is prepar- field and White Waltham compileding the work, stated:-- inore than 7,000 hours, although thei

"In Mr. Beatty's collection was) foriginally ton leaves of the Pauline

73-Year-Old Professor

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American newspapers revent anxiety about the "mid-Pacific scramble,” and express fear that It may ultimately lead to diploma-

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They also own nine schooners unl Vossola employed in island sorvico..

The authorised capital is £2,000,000.

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demanding the payment of "divi 1983 for British Museum from She met the professor in Italy (dends," Bovlet Government for £100,000, a year ago, when she was, on # It is explained, however, that Treasury advancing money, even-world cruise. "He is not a bit the Social Credit scheme dannot *, tually retrieving about 200,000 from like the liatal dry-as-dust type," be launched for another year, or

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