1936-02-28 — Page 3

BRITAIN LOSES

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

THREE ISLANDS

"Annexed, Colonised" By American Statesman

POLYGAMISTS ON TRIAL

state

"I, ̃C, Spencer and Price Johnson, recently convicted of prac ticing polygamy in Arizona, leste Kingman jail for the penitentiary at Florence. The Short Creek polygamints were un able to raise 3,000 bond for release pending appeal and chose to serve, time in the penitentiary awaiting 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 clubs have

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 Hawaiiani publicity bureau.

TREBITSCH LINCOLN PLANS MONASTERY IN EUROPE ·

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Singapore, Feb. 18. Trebitnch Lincoln, one-time member of Parliament, who la now firing in China an the Buddhlat Abbot Chao Kung. writes to one of his followers In Singapore:

"I want to leave the East for Buddhist good, and to found a monastery in Europe. I shall then relire and wait until this tottering and crazy civilisation

has disappeared."

Lincoln ways 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 land in Britain when he ar rived at Liverpool in 1934, it is doubtful whether he will be per mitted to land in Singapore- United. Prras.

The House They Gave

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

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 lying there were 4,271, been open for a few weeks.

an increase of about 100 in the 51 Women Owners

year.

Complete statistics of the year's The aggregate flying time was flying will not be available until 39,098 hourk, which in distance the Air Ministry's report for the flown means about 3,500,000 miles year is published next October. These figures take no account of That report will also give a statis- unsubsidised clubs, nor of six sub-tical abstract showing the very sidised clubs which have not yet reat increase in British air line fully reported, nor of lying on traffic on the Empire routes and

ns the low-powered within the British Isles.

"air scooters,

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.

It was the Jubilee gift of the Royal Warrant Holders' Associa- tion (the King's tradesmen) to King George.

be-

It was known na the "King's House." King George chose the plans and Inspected a model forehand. The choice of a tenant was to have been left to him.

to be presented to

Now it is

King Edward VIII.

**lying flens" and other machines The number of civil aircraft on of that class may be called, the Joint Aviation Advisory Com

In-the-27-clubs-ferred-to-559mittee's reglater is 1,648, compared pilots qualified for the "A" certi-with 1,249 a year ago. Of the pre- nent total 72 belong to Imperial fiente, and 123 for the "B," or com Airways and 609 are privately own mercial pilot's licence.'

jed (B1, of them by women).

"We shall hold a meeting to con- Recent figures from other coun- sider the handing over of the tries are: United States 6,876;. house to King Edward," an official France, 1.933;

Germany, of the Royal Warrant Holders' As- and

sociation said.

Strain on Aircraft Club-flying is a severe ordeal for aircraft, for It involves continual 1,578. ascents and landinga, often rough landinge 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 seroplanes, made an aggregate of 4,525 dying hours, or 646-hoare-per-machine. The Hamp shire Club, with Ave aeroplanes and an aggregate of 2,051 hours, aver nged 410 hours per machine.

Much training in

BIBLE LEAVES

OLDER THAN CODEX

FOUND IN EGYPT

The moving figure in the an- nexation is Mr. Samuel Wilder King, the Hawallan dolegate to the United States Congress.

The three islands, which are named Jarvis, Baker and Howland, were discovered by an American South Sens 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- ahip cannot be legally recognised becnuso it is not "occupational ownership."

Congressman King has "colo- nised" the islands by settling small groups of *American citizens" of Hawallan birth on enchi,

Richest Coral Island

A gesture intended 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 n visit to the islands, claiming they wero American territory.

Reports have been published in America that the annexation has gone a step further, and Congressman King is reported to have "colonised" Christmas Island for America.

Christmas Island is the largest and probably the richest coral Island in the world. It lies 1,300 miles due south of the Hawaiian Islands.

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

In a statement published by the Hawaiian Publicity Bureau Con- Kressman King admits that Christ- mas Island is "generally consi- dered British," but says it "may bo the next coral atoll of the South Seas to find a place under the American flag.”

Later he states "whether or ..not United States will find a way to acquire Christmas Island re- mains to be seen."

"Ownership Complete"

In the same statement ho admits that Washington Island and Fan- ning Island, near Christmas, uro British, but Bays "If the United States could acquire Fanning and Washington from the British her ownership of everything in the mid-Pacife revolving about Hawall would be complete."

American newspapers reveal anxiety about the "mid-Pacific scramble," and express fear that. it may ultimately lead to diploma-

the Royal Air Force, partion for MR. A. CHESTER BEATTY, the sixty-year-old Ameri-tie complications.

commercial flying, is carried on at

can millionaire who became a naturalised English lying schools which are not clubs.man, recently bought from an Egyptian dealer a quantity North Sea Aorial 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 hours, all done on 16 Blackburn years ago.

had an aggregate of 8,023 flying

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

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

Sir Frederic Konyon, former Di- rector and Principal Librarian of

The De Havilland schools at Hat-the British Museum, who is prepar- field and White Waltham compiled Ing the work, atated:-- more than 7,000 hours, although the|

"In Mr. Beatty's 'collection was *** ¡originally ton leaves of the Pauline manuscript. Later thirty more

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is further complicated by the fact The position of Fanning laland that the Australian merchant firm of Burns, Philp and Co. acquired

in December the controlling in- terest in a company, Fanning Island, Ltd.

Burns, Phlip, and Co., Ltd., have a head office in Sydney, New South Wales. The chairman is Mr. James Burns.

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The company was registered in Nuw South Wales in 1882 as mer. chants and shipowners. They own nino vessels, operating between Melbourne Sydney and Java, Sings pore, New Guinea Solomon Islands, Papua and New Hebrides.

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