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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936.

U.S. EXPERTS DIVIDED ON POLICY Wisdom Of Establishing Permanent Stations In The Pacific

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Do you want to live to be 100? Do you want to be a spruce, powerful young man or woman at 80, able to indulge in sport and never knew a day's illness?

Then listen to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.. who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, and who hopes to reach his century. and still be as fit as a fiddle.

"The whole secret of being ~ healthy is the simplest thing in the world," he end.

"The secret is-cleanliness, Keep yourself clean both in- side and outside and you will never have cause to fear nn old age of lingering illness."

POSITION CHANGED BY INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES Strategic Possibilities Of Anglo-American Front

MANILA NEAR TO SINGAPORE

Washington, July. 28. THE advisability of maintaining permanent United States naval bases in the Philippine Islands has already been given careful attention by the Navy Depart- ment, despite the fact that a final decision in the matter is not required before the effective date of Philippine In- She Had Last dependence ten years hence, it is learned here.

|| GARBO'S

NEW CAR

Sir William was asked about One Ten Years development of a Philippine military establishment in the newbern

plan to celebrate his hundredth

birthday in 1956.

"Belleve me, 1. have no in tention of altering my ways of living," he said. "I hope to

continue having a bit of sal- mon fishing, enjoying · my walks in the country, having a drink when I feel like one

and eating sensibly,

"I am not a crank who says that you mustn't smoke and mudn't drink. Alcohol is a food and taken properly, is a very pleasant

food.

SMOKING AND EATING

"As regards sipoking--I con- tinue to enjoy my elgar when I feel like one. I don't smoke a lot, of course, but a cigne, pipe, or cigarette in reason shouldn't, do anyone much harm.

"And thern la just

one more

point of advice. Everyone should; eat lots of green vegetables audi salads.

"Further, don't eat so heartily FOR ten years the Hollywood

stadio gateinen have known

that you become fat and flabby" hattered, black, faded saloon

LAWRENCE

OF ARABIA: VANDALS AT GRAVE HIDDEN away in the

quiet wilderness of Morë? ton Heath, Dorset, in a piece of recently consecrated

ground is the grave of Law- rence of Arabia.

car.

They have always passed it

through the gate with a nod to

the chanferm

I was, the only car

hal since

Garbo hud

lcame a film star.

Greta she big-

A shy, black seven-passenger how mouisine with a splek-and-spaari dauffeurwitzzed-into-thrudin gate last week. Offers, Jumped to the runninic-board to stop the strange lear.

LESS SOLITARY

The chauffeur nodded toward the

rear.

It was Carin paying her first visit to the studios since her return to Hollywood after long holiday in Sweden.

Continued political attention to the Far East, coupled with thes Commonwealth has caused high naval officers individually to weigh the arguments for and against United State, naval defence of future independent Philippines.

DIFFICULTY

OF

SHARP

OF

LONG

COMMUNICATION

LINES

division of opinion has | abše ekin and other indispensable

A atrody developed between

ischools of different strategical thought as to the wisdom of establishing per- manent bases in the Islands,

|- Garba is reported to have become) But not too secret or sacred for less solitary and secretive white on souvenir hunters is the last resting holiday. Her smart new rur Is Holly-

of that elusive and romantie wood's first evidence of a change.

place

flgure.

Hundreds of visitors arrive every week to view the grave. Few Jenve without taking KORIC nemento' of their visit.

Others have even walked over | the grave, until the grass on the top of this simple mound has worn thin.

A anal shrub which grows at thei

Film Star Leaves £300,000

New York, Aug. 1.

head of the grave Is been stripped THOMAS MEIGHAN, famous film

and cut until only a bare stump re- star of the silent screen, who died mains.

a fortnight ngo, left between 1988,000 and £100,000,

When I visited the grave (writes

a London reporter), there were just This is revented by his will filed at

a Lew flowers. "And they won't be there long," my guide told me.

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Under the Tydlings-McDumle dependence Act, the question of naval hakes was not decided upon but gr-i served for regoliation after re pendence is in effect. This fact hog invested continued speculation American nuval polley,

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One group of ligh naval authorities feels thal the arguments. arginst

wur materials; and

Permanent banes woult guurab- te the Amerkan politient status in ( 1lippines if prople of the Islanda should Inte decide that their own best intervals would le under some forra of American pro- teriorate, raftur thair complete separation.

CONTRARY VIEWS

The arguments unfavourable to permanent bases in the Philippines, fort Hirnst besty, advanced in tigh in the light of the prevent situation, circles are Fontwerch the reasons advanced in! favour of auch, hages. Such ophulen i is obvinly merely preliminary, Ing

I

ew of tunable factors in Far East-

polities and commerce, and the fact that a warfare is still in its Infancy,

These officers are of the opinion that

the present volume of Chilted States

Far East s trate in the not sufficient to warrant the strate. rical risks involved in permanent naval fortification of the Philip- pines, and that naval bases in the Far East would contradlet a defence system based on the Hawallan Islands as the main defensive out- post in the Pacifle.

THE ARGUMENTS"

The arguments for and against bases in the Philippines, as unofficial- y cummented upon among naval ex- ports at the present time run along the following Tues:

Favourable to permanent baser:—

Diplomall policies, particularly the principle of the "open door" in China trade. require well-organised defence facilities in Far Eastern waters:

and

American trans-Pacific marine Jiir routes and around-the- world lines logically require a trans-Pacific base to support the necessary naval protection;

An Americon base in the Philip- pines, fairly close to the British buse at Singapore, would offer strategical possibility of on Anglo- American naval "fron!"" event of an emergency affecting both the United Sunes and the British Dominions.

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Establishment of naval bases In The Philippines would compel the United States to maintain a strate

teal plan featured by extremely tong lines of communication and great difleulties of maintenance fa event of a war; many high oflcers

Sonia Henic has left the amateur

ort to make her fortune at Holly- wood. In the picture above she is

| being prepared by a make-up expert

for her first appearance,

ANOTHER SOLAR ECLIPSE

VISIBLE IN H.K.

Nanking. Aug. 1.

"The

valuable experience gathered by the Chinese solar Hokkaido, eclipse expedition to Japan, on last June 19 will be useful to China for observing the next similar heavenly pheno- menon which will be seen along the Yangtze Valley at noon on Sept. 21, 1941."

Thus réanarked Dr. Yu Ching-

believe it would be virtually Imsung, director of the. Nanking possible in hoid such bases in event | Purple Mountain Observatory, of a major conflict;

and head of the said expedition,

The Philippines hack industrial fucilities to support feets stationed in a recent radio broadcast. in the Islands if the long lines of communication to the United States were, mtercepted by an enemy;

Distinguishing itself as the first astronomical expedition ever des-

Di

six noted

Establishment of a base. In the patched by China, the group, rom- islands-would-logically require-the-

Chinese United States, to have sub-bases in pesed Guam or other intermediate Islands astronomists. garnered notable

which would bring the naval estab- listment permanently face to face results in their observations. with the Japanese navy, without any intermediate "no man's land" sustained by diplomacy or mutual agreement:

In addition to taking three excellent photographs of the corona which will serve as a valuable aid in the study of its light intensity, the expedition The Naval bases could not deci- also tonk moving pletures of the solar sively injure an enemy's commerce | phenomenon, even if powerful tattleships were stationed here, because most strate- gical materials have alternative routes to any possibly powerful enemy in Asin; and

FOR 3,368 YEARS Turning to statistical records of the solar phenomenon, Dr. Yu said that during the past 3,360 years, there Maintenance of a base and fleet have been a total of 8,000 soln in the Philippines would be ex- cclipses or 237 times in every 100 tremely costly and the

years. Of this number, however, buge appropriations involved, some ex- only in 65 times did the moon com perts here believe, might better be pletely obstruct the light of the sun. spent in less distant fortifications.

FALSE

COLDS

Kansas City, Mo., July 21. Sufferers from sinusitis, who re peatedly have "false" colis, are the human earriers of real colds, Dr. Edward C. Sewall of San Francisco declares,

The chances of observing the total eclipse of the sun from China, which occupies approximately two per cent. of the earth's surface, are much fewer, there being about once in

A peruan of every 100 years. Chinese annols shows that within a period of 400 years, from 1,542 tilt the present, there have been 26 total solar celipses seen in China of which only four were seen at noon.

In the next 100 years, Dr. Yu pre- dicted, there will be 10 total eclipses to be seen in China, of, which only one will take place at noon.

LAST IN 1942 A.D.

Dr. Sewall addressed the section on diseases of the ear, nose and throat at the recent convention of the

The chances of the total eclipse of American Medical Association.

"Cold weather influences adversely the sun happening at noon and seen"

densely-populated regions along persons with chronic sinusitis," De Yangtze and the Hwangho valleys Sewall sald, "and

them to be causes

are scarce if not rare. Within a long como active carriers of colds,"

500 M. Cullont

period of of Nashville, Dr. Marvin

years, only two Tenn., blamed

sinusitis for 5 per the Ming dynasty and was seen accurred. One on Aug. 11, 1543, cent, of infections of the middle car along the Yellow River valley. The

In and mastoid, "Such infections are other will take place on Sept. 21, menace to life, health and hearing," The maid. United Press.

BOY KING OF SIAM

Singapore, July 29, The boy King of Siam, Ananda Mchidol. I, will visit Bangkok next November during the cool

1041, Dr. Yu staled.

A humorous touch was injected Into his speech when he said that as the sky darkened; docks of crows were seen flying back to their nesta Land within 20 minutes after the eclipse, he heard some rocks crow. "They must have mistaltened the heavenly phenomenon for dawn."

Dr. Yu concluded by paying a warm tribute to the host of foreign scientists who went to Khabarovsk and Hokkaido from great distances and nt immense expenses just to This will be his first visit to phenomenon against extreme un-

observe the

momentary solar his country since his accession certainty,

{season.

last year on the abdication of ex- Under the able administration of King Prajhadipok who is now Dr. Yu, the Purple Mountain Obser- vatoty, built at a cost of $300,000 living in exile in England. and claimed to be the largest of its The boy King, who is 11, 1s af kind in Chill, has achieved notablo school in Switzerland with his mother results in solar research-the study During his visit to Blangkok he will of variable stars tid spectro-photo. be presented to the people," but the fetry, and the determination of time. coronation ceremony will not takeelt has, furthermore, established close place until he beconies of ago confections with all leading observa United Press,

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The total Expenditure in 1936 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Incomo to date is $18,000 only,

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of

$7,000

before the close of the financial year on 31st

October.

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