1936-08-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936.

U.S. EXPERTS DIVIDED ON POLICY

Wisdom Of Establishing Permanent Stations In The

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The Pacific.

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

Continued political attention to the Far East, coupled with the

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

plan to eclebrate his hundredth; birthday in 1956.

"Believe me, I have no in- tention of altering my ways of Hylog." he said. "I hope to continue having a bit of Hal- mun fishing, enjoying my walks in the country, having A drink when 1 feel like one

and eating sensibly.

" am not a crank who says that You mustn't smoke

mustn't

drink, Alentol is a food and, taken properis, is a very pleasant food.

SMOKING AND EATING

when i

"As regards sucking--1 con- tinue to enjoy my rigar feel like one. I don't smoke a lot. of course, but a civar, pipe, or cigarette in reason shouldn't, doj anyone much harm.

"And there is just

one mu

point of advies. Everyone should; eat lots of green vegetables andj salads,

Commonwealth has caused high naval officers individually to weigh the arguments for and against United States naval defence of future independent Philippines.

DIFFICULTY OF

LONG

OF COMMUNICATION

SHARP division of opinion hay developed between #iready schools of different strategical thought as to the wisdom of establishing per- manent bases in the Islands,

Under 15. Tydings-MeDuffle ti dependence Act, the question of navol hases was not decided upon but re- served for

negotiation after inde- pendence is in effect. This fact has

continued sprculatioņi Finvited

Anwerican naval policy.

1371

LINES

Sónia Henie has left the amateur

sport to make her fortune at Holly- wood. In the plature above she is

being prepared by a make-up experi for her frst appearance.

ANOTHER

SOLAR

and other Indispensable ECLIPSE

able ells war materials; and

Permanent bases would gunr, a- ter the American political status in the Millipines if people of the Ishads should later decide that the own best interests would le under some form of American pro- than complete tectorate, rather separation,

CONTRARY VIEWS

One group of high naval authorities!

The brunnts unfavourable to feels that e arguments against i

advanced in high Ipermanent bases in the Philippines, fortifletion, as fin the light of the present situation, circles are:

reasons advanced in joutweigh the

favour of such bists. Such opinion) is obviously merely preliminary. In ern palities and commerce, and the studio gatemen have known a fact that air warfare is still in its battered, black, faded salona infancy..

"Further, don't eat so heartly FOR ten years the Hollywod View of unstable factors in Far East-

that you become fat and flabby.”

LAWRENCE

They have always passed it

the chauffeur,

through the gate with a nod to

Greta

It was the only car

bad since she l

rame a film star.

OF ARABIA: Garbo hud

VANDALS AT GRAVE HIDDEN away in the

quiet wilderness of Morr- ton Heath, Dorset, in a piece of recently consecrated ground is the grave of Law- rence of Arabia.

A shiny, black seven-passenger new limousine with a spick-and-span chouleu whizzed but the audio rate las vrek. Offrers Jumped tej Brunning-boned to stop the strange!

LESS SOLITARY The chanfieur nodded toward the Breat

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

il

Garbo is reported to have become less solitary and secretive white on!

But not to secret or sacred, fog souvenir hunters is the last resting holiday. Her smart new car is Holly- place of that ebisive and romantic wood's first evidence of a change. Agure.

Hundreds of visitors arrive every i week lo view the grave.

Few leave

of

without taking sine memento

their visit.

Film Star

Others have even walked over Leaves

the grave, until the grass on the

top of this simple moand has worn! £300,000

thin.

A small shrub which grows at the

New York, Aug, 1.

bend of the grave has been stripped TIOMAS MEIGHAN, Innious film

and cut until only a bare stump re mains.

When I visited the graye (writes a London reporter), there were just a few flowers. And they won't be there long my guide told me.

star of the silent screen, who died fortnight ago, left between £390,000 and £100,000.

This is revealed by his will filed at Mineola, Long Island.

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These officers are of the opinion that the present volume of United Stairs trade in the Far East is not sufficient to warrant the strate zical risks involved in permanent naval fortification of the Phillp- pines, and that naval bases in the Far East would contradict a defence!

on the Hawallan system based Islands as the main defensive duk- post in the Paclite.

THE ARGUMENTS

The arguments for and against buses in the Philippines, an unofficial- My commented-upon among naval_ex- perts at the present time run along the following lines:-

Favourable to permanent bases:

Diplomatic policies, particularly

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

American trans-Pacifies-marine and air routes and around-the- world lines logically require a trans-Paclile base to support the) necessary naval protection;

the Philip An Americon

base in pines, fairly close to the British base at Singapore, would offer an Anglo- strategien! possibility of

the American havai "front"

emergency affecting event of an

und the both the United States British Dominions.

its

in the adequate to

A powerful naval base

support a

southerntonese number of

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Nanking, Aug. 1.

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

next

Thus remarked Dr. Yu Ching-

Establishment of naval bases in the Philippines would compel the United States to maintain'☎`siräte-

leal plan featured by extremely Sept. 21, 1941." long lines of communication and great difficulties of maintenance in event of a war; many high officers believe it would be virtually im-sung, director of the Nanking possible to hold such bases in event Purple Mountain, Observatory, of a major conflict;

and head of the said expedition,

The Philippines lack Industrial facilities to support ficcts stationed In the Islands if the long lines of communication to the United States were intercepted by an energy;

in a recent radio hrouleast.

Distinguishing itself as the first astronomical expedition over des-

notable

Establishment of a base in the patched by China, the group, com- Islands would fotically require the

of six noted Chinese United States to have sub-bases in posed Guam or other Intermediate islands natronomista, garnered which would bring the naval esinb- listment permanently face to face with the Japanese navy, without any intermediate "no man's land" sustained by diplomacy or mutual agreement;

results in their observations.

In addition to taking three EXCELLEN photographs of the corona which wil serve as a valuable aid in the study of its light Intensity, the expedition The Naval bases could not deci-also took moving pictures of the solar sively injure an enemy's commerce phenomenon. even if powerful battleshies were stationed here, because most strate

FOR 3,368 YEARS

gleaf materials have alternative Turning to statistical records of the routes to any possibly powerful solar phenomenon, Dr. Yu said that enemy in Asia; and.

during the past 3.388 years, there

Maintenance of a base and fleet have been a total of 8,000 solar in the Philippines would be ex-velipses or 237 times in every 100 tremely costly and the huge years of this number, however, approprintlona tavolved, some ex-only in 66 times did the moon com- perts here believe, might better be pletely obstruct the light of the sun. spent in less distant forliftentions.

FALSE

COLDS

Kansas City, Mo., July 21.

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 cf every 100 years, A perusal Chinese Annals shows that within a period of 400 years, from 1.542 till the present, there have been 20 total solar eclipses seen in China of which

Sufferers from sinusitis, who re-only four were seen at noon. peatedly have "false" colds, are the human carriers of real colds, Dr. Edward C. Sewal of San Francisco declures.

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

LAST IN 1512 A.D.

The chances of the tolal eclipse of the sun happening at noon and seen

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

"Coll wenther influences adversely persons with chronic sinusitis," De in densely populated regions along Sewall said, "and causes them to be the Yangtze and the Hwangho valleys come active carriers of colds."

are scarce if not rare. Within à long

of perlod

500 years, only two Dr. Marvin M. Cullem of Nashville, Pe

eccurred. One on Aug. 11, 1942, Tenn., blamed sinusitis for 85 per in the Ming dynasty und was seen cent, of infections of the middle ear along the Yellow River valley. The and mastoid. "Such infections are other will take place on Sept. 21, mennee to fe, health and hearing,"

1041, Dr. Yu stated. he said.-United Press,

BOY KING OF SIAM

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

SCRSON.

A humorous touch was Injected into his speech when he said that as the sky darkened, flocks of crows were seen flying back to their nests and within 20 minutes after the eclipse, he heard some cocks crow. "They must have mistakened th heavenly phenomenon for dawn"

Dr. Ya concluded by paying a warm tribute to the host of foreign scientists who went to Khabarovsk

and Hokkaido from prent distances and at immense expenses just

the observe

Inontentary solar This will be his first visit to phenomenon against extreme This country since his accession certainty.

last year on the abdication of ex-Dr. Yu, the Purple Mountain Obser

Under the able administration of King Prajhadipok who is now vatory 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. is at leind, in China, has achieved notablo school in Switzerland with his mother, results In solar research-the study During his visit to Bangkok he will of variable stars and spectro-photo- be "presented to the people," but the metry, and the determination of time, coronation ceremony will not take It has, furthermore, established close place until he becomes of age connections with all leading observa- United ProAS.

torles in the World-Central News"

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The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of sick and destituts children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Income to date la $18,000 only.

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

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October.

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