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Locations of Tiny Coral Islands the United States and Britain are Claiming as Landing Stations for Trans-Pacific Planes Are ShownL on Above Map. Landing Parties Have Taken Possession of Canton

Ender bury,

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PACIFIC

ANTON ISLAND is shaped yards wide and 27 miles in circum- roughly "like a hollow pork, terence encloses a quiet lagoon about nine miles long and three miles chop," says the National Geo- graphic Society.

Canton and Enderbury islands are set out in the middle of the

Hongkong Telegraph. Pacific Ocean and have just been

THURSDAY, Arnt 21, 1038.

BRITAIN LOOKS WELL AHEAD

across,

Most cloistered elty tolk cherish the yearning of someday living by a lagoon. But there are certain ob- jections to lagoon life on Canton.

Top 11 by Kindred Probare Handlenda, tan,

"Talk about your sweat shops! Look at that--two weeks' work

for thirty centa!"

The Films Have Gone Crazy

by

PAUL HOLT

Terucl.)

noted the Sinister creeping Into the "Breakfast for Two."

Riding on fire engines was the jam WAS reading about how Gary

Cooper the other day to coat the pill which looked like. refused to spank Claudette Col- Take the Land Away from the Banks and Landlords and give it back to the during the making of a film call- the moment with. bert with the flat of his hand People. (An argument proceeding at some vigour st éd "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife."

DON'T remember exactly It finally took Miss Colbert

when it was that I first herself to persuade him, with a plea straight from the fine heart mind the pain, the indignity. It

This had, for no good reason, the patient Herbert Marshall standing was essential to the drama.

The poor sap, he didn't know. with Miss Barbara Stanwyck in New York Central Station, both with Slapping actresses isn't just faces smeared by buttered toast, while essential to the drama these an agitated clergyman wearing box- This seemed to me to offer some oppo- days; it's the whole works. We ing gloves irled to untie them for life. are in the middle of a film cycle sition to the dogma that marriage is far more significant than the his- u sacrament. torical cycle, far more sinister than the gangster cycle,

It is, of course practically on the claimed for the United States. equator, to be precise, 175 miles south, As a matter of fact members of the They were visited and ex- American expedition had to shif plored a year ago by the Nation- the island about one and one-third al Geographic Society-US Navy further north-it seems all the pre- miles farther west and 6-10 mile Expedition which picked them vious maps were wrong about it. out as superb grandstand seats Not that it mattered much in the for the total eclipse of the sun, vast expanse of the Pacifle. Great Britain's persistent on June 8, 1937. Canton Island But to get back to the lagoon. was the base of the expedition This Ingoon, it seems, is obstructed efforts to purchase war planes and a landing also was made on but there is one entrance from the of womanhood, that she didn't game, but I think it was a film called here and there with patches of coral, from the United States, the Enderbury,

sea, on the west side, and through actual despatch of a mission to' The two little coral punctuation this the 1937 American expedition's points on the page of the Pacific motorboat carried supplies for land- act for the Government in an some 43 miles apart were visited Ing on the beach.

One of the difficulties with the altempt to persuade Washing-because they were among the few ton to sell them, coupled with points of land within the entire Island as a tourist resort is the lack of shade. "A few" cocoanut palms 8,800 mile path of the eclipse appeals by Sir Thomas Inskip.shadow nerof the waters. are growing on it, says the National Geographic Society, but only a few. Minister for the Co-ordination ng way-stations of the airplane a solitary Inhabitant would not fe Some day they may be the bust The seabirds nest on the island, and of Defence, both to labour and routes acro98 the Pacific. But lonesome for there are "considerable employers to speed up the home now, well

production of armaments, in-

dicates the nation's concern for THE hungry man will continue to visualize Canton Island as "a the permanence of Europe's hollow pork chop."

But aside from its shape there is narrow strip of land from 30 to 800

numbers of rats and hermit crabs.

For romantle interest there is "the wreck of a ship on the shore," and this supplied the Geographic group with timbers for a wharf.

peace. If Mr. Chamberlain's site to remind visitors of food. A ONE of the most serious difficulties

tish faith in the goodwill of that nation.

Is

with the spot is the drinking water, both on Conton and Ender bury. The trouble with the drink-

water, it appears,

that Ing

However, there there isn't any. are lots of sea water, and all in- habitants would have to do would be to distill it, as the American expedi- tion did. Of course, settlement might make arrangements

a permanent

It is anti-social; it is deplor- able. It is offensive and degrad- ing.It is great fun.

over

and

And the Frodnoses do nothing. I only hope they don't read this and wake up to what they've been miss-

In-

From there the thing has spread as quickly as a rumour at a fool- ball match. As I write, one by one toppled

moral values the traditions of society are being minced to make tomato jum. The Powers of Darkness are having the IAM, personally, for reason times of their long lives.

It is a curious thing that the hope to make hilariously clear, much in favour of it. But I'm Prodneses should have made such

how it gels by. a blowed if I see

Tow when the screen, with some policy of appeasement is not

Legions of Decency, purity codes, midity, was suggesting that Sex exactly popular, he must be given

women clubs, and the whole para- was a Sin. Now, the suggestion is

of Prodnasal activity that

that it is nothing more than a great. phernalia credit for realising the necessity

stand by, watch benevolently a re big belly4ugh, Which is surely

and more subversive. manners screen volution in (of guarding against the consequ- But the most significant, and

morals so thorough and cheerful and ences of its failure. He is at the same time most hopeful

irresistible that foundations of so

ure threatened. ciety practical in that he perceives aspect of the mission's appoint- ment is in the auggestion that

Virtue is on the ashcan; truth is a ing to catch rain water.

horse laugh.

Not only Sex. The law is having that the best intentions of the it will possibly continue to

Although on the equator, the tem-

its leg pulled. And business and WOULD you care to walk the habit of selling the truth and British Government and most Canada to examine manufactur- perature might have been worse, it

Wo with me down the crazy constancy and good manners. painstaking diplomacy on the ing facilities there. At the is reported. In May and June it

ebriation is no longer an artificial part of the Foreign Office may present time, however, Canada hovered between 80 and 00 degrees corridors of this Bediam?

It all started the day Miss Colbert device for comedy, but a thorough- not have the slightest restrain-is not in a position to supply but the continuously blowing trade

(who likes being spanked) lifted up going excuse for all villainy. Great Britain with any large winds helped to case discomfort.

Wil

THOUGHT occurs to me. ing influence upon any power number of machines. In the The Americans were on the islands her skirt to stop a passing ear.

first, and last May 30 the expedition

Ham Powell got the idea at once and

AFor years now, there has on the sofa on whose programme of expansion, past, in fact, though the Do- dedicated a concrete monument on

flashed HIS shins Christmas morning, with the dubious been heard the plaintive note of at the expense of lesser states, minion produces all the required Canion, with two metal representa-

pretence that he wanted a better rest the film highbrow (a cross between is already mapped out. Britain materials, her modern fight-tions of the American Rag on it. The

eclipse purty from New Zealand got for an airgun with which he pro- the cheep of a canary and a rusty is arming, and as fast as her ing craft have been bought to Canton on H.M.S. Wellington and posed to shoot down festive balloons. hinge) fluting the inability of the

already en-

Students will note the delicate air screen to handle satire. Maybe this factories and her funds allow from Britain. But with the found the Americans

recent decision to expand camped.

of decay introduced already. Where is it.

I would like some official support Canadian Air her, not only for defence of her the

as Misa Colbert, flashing her shins, Force, They found the dock and equip-

as have a hangover, Mr. Powell for this incredible, screen, fashion, because I don't want it to die just own possessions, should they be the industry has geared itself ment already built by the American

matter rested awhile. yet. It has provided me with the best threatened, but in order that up and installed the necessary expedition most helpful in landing did.

There the their own gear, especially the cargo

coconuts they had The screen was content to be crazy game I have found in ten years of she may be in a position to back machinery for producing pursuit of about 1,000 her final warning to aggressors machines. It may also manu- brought along for planting on a large There was a good deal of Left Wing film-viewing.

feeling, to be sure, in "My Man Godfrey," which had a nitwit heiress these outcast Alms. with a well-weighted big stick.facture bombers. If this indus- area to the south of the camp.

bring back down-and-outs to the try gets encouragement from It is unfortunate that such Britain it will increase the rato

quite a thriving tent cliy, methods should be necessary; of its expansion; and that is all DURING its stay the expedition but it is a blessing that the to the good. For while Britain with Eving quarters flanking "Fith British Government is alert to naturally will always depend Avenue" and business offices, (prin the necessity.

upon the home industry for its cipolly the photographle darkroom, chiof source of supply, she will the radio shack, mess hall and

Instruments) established on "Broad- It should not be thought that be in the happy position of pos- way." A makeshift cement mixer because of the apparently hur-sessing a potentially high-speed was rigged up and put into service ried effort to secure additional production unit out of harm's filling. forms for instrument bases

pared with a regular hill on Ender- aircraft that the Government is way in time of war if she can left behind with the metal American

encourage the Canadian manu flag imbedded,

bury, fully 25 feet high. in any danger of panicking.facturers to speculate. It has

Returned Americans say that two As to Enderbury Island, the Geo-

boards have been nailed to a tree The reason for the approach to been suggested that American graphic Society does not liken it to

on Enderbury Island, one claiming; the United States for assistance companies might be prevailed a "hollow pork chop" or anything

ETHOD No. 2, of course, It in the name of King George V, the other in the name of King George

consists of arriving late, is simple. The output of the upon to manufacture or as- cisc. It used up all of its imagina

making a noise, dating up the pro- It is "oblong," barren and extremely VI. British factories has not yet semble machines in Canada and on on the first atoll. It just says

thus evade the neutrality laws rough. Future inhabitants will find Omcials of the Department of the gramme girl, slapping the thigh of reached its maximum and the and the restrictions against oxit 31⁄2 miles long and 11⁄2 miles wide. Interior, who know about the Can- the young woman in the seat next to industry's adaption to the extra-porting modern

ton and Enderbury Islanda, say the you, taking out a brandy flask and A first rate coral reef surrounds it war planes.

extending out from 100 to 200 yards guano deposits and the generations Buggling loudly, hiccuping, telling ordinary demands is necessarily Such a course might very easily offshore. There is no lagoon. The of

a blue story to the stranger on the tho mako

atmosphere a slow. It would be reassuring to prova offensive to American coral reef makes landing difficult little short of salubrious. But there other side, and striking match on

the Islands are, equipped with a cen- the bald head of the gent in front. know that American planes are people. It is not advisable. and there doesn't seem to be a sat

iral lagoon, few but authentic palm In fact, modelling your behaviour. available, even though they are Britain and Canada had much isfactory place to anchor. It seems

definitely an inferior place to Can- trees, and ripe for an enterprising real as closely as possible on that of the

estate agent.

hero of the photoplay you have come not needed. And the request 1, better utilise their own vory on, although there are also rats and

large resources. It is unwise to hermit crabs.

For somebody who doesn't care to sne. 4 compliment

I think it is most unfair the to American Joan upon even the best of

The highest point on Canton is about shade or drinking water, and efficiency and proof of the Bri- friends in an emergency. only 10 feet above high tide com who likes solitude they are ideal. should probably be arrested

and for the cement memorial marker

hunt.

There are two ways of seeing

No. 1 method is my present favourite. Correct behaviour is es- sentint. You must sit down quietly, family mansion as part of a treasure

And Mr. Powell again, most ad- chuckle brightly at the innocuous on the mirable of Old Crichtonians, doused bits. Always, of course, her hysterics under a shower. Which keenest lookout for the first bit of is what is known as putting the rich moral turpitude, disguised as a cus-

tard plc, to come

slong.. Imme- in their place.

The same note occurred in Mr. diately one such does, you must act. Capra's "Mr. Deeds."

In a loud volce you say "Disgusting!" If that has no effect, in a louder tone · "IS THE CENSOR ASLEEP?”

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The pleasure of observing a dozen respectable citizens turning round to USH in support of ribald and de- moralising villainy is considerable.

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