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U.S. Occupation Of Two Pacific

Islands Attracts Attention

Thousands Of Islands Still Unclaimed

By OTTO JANSSEN

United Press Staff Correspondent.

-WASHINGTON.

"THE OCCUPATION OF CANTON AND ENDERBURY ISLANDS,

World

GIRL IS ACCUSED OF SPYING

Known As Beautiful Tatania

Paris. Talbot, A 23-year-old BY THE UNITED STATES, WITH CONSEQUENT ANGLO-Yvonne

DIPLOMATIC

HAS DISCUSSIONS,

FOCUSSED French girl, known to her assoclates AMERICAN

five people arrested following WORLD ATTENTION ON THOUSANDS OF SMALL ISLETS IN THE "the beautiful Tatiann," is one of | VAST PACIFIC OCEAN WHICH DERIVE STEADILY AN ASCEND. espionage activities in the South of

France. INC VALUE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF AIR TRANSPORT OF STRATEGICAL CONSIDERATION.

and

Many of these islands, like Baker, Jarvis Howland which were colonized by the United States during the last two years, are tiny land areas important to industry or commerce, but newly valued points of call on actual or projected trans-Pacific air routes.

not

as

Most of the larger islands and archipelagos have been claimed by particular powers, and sovereignty is not in dispute. But to many of the smaller islets, particularly in the equatorial region, there are either conflicting national claims, or incomplete cinims based on discovery without subsequent occupation,

Weat listed

The

cascades run down from the hills to The valleys and plains are the sen well cultivated.

A majority of the principal small-island groups of the Pacific lie near the equator, east and

Cyclonic storms are frequent be- northeast of Australia, and

tween December and March and in stretch into the mid-ocean area. 1877 the istands of Anan and Kaukura The Phoenix Group, which has been were almost wiped out by one of the subjected to close examination as a most violent storms ever recorded.

dis-

The islands are owned by the result of the Anglo-American

a population of cussions, consists of eight scattered French and have

lying near the about 30,000. Many of the natives low cerul islandy equator and about 3,000 miles north-are reported to suffer from tubercu- are losis and elephantiasis but leprosy, Austria. of

islands

as widespread in some Pacific Islands, Is in STK

Brkish publications British protectorates, and many of not common. them, Including Canton, were leased 142 1916 for 87 years.

There is

is little

vegetation except on two of the islands-Sydney and Hull

The latter island was discovered by the American explorer, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, in 1840. Great Bri- miles southwest of Tahiti. There are nin proclaimed it a protectorate inve in the group and are relatively 1889.

It was leased, as in the case unimportant. They also are owned of most of the other islands, in 1910. by It is Inhabited by employees of the jessee.

Tahiti is the most important island of the group. It 33 miles long and It mountains are so 1.3 miles wide. high that on a clear day Tahitl can be sighted 80 or 90 miles away.

The Tubual 1tands are about 350

France.

Among the more important of the smaller island groups are the Solo- mon Islands. They were first sighted

Posing as n Russian girl, she is stated to have frequented fashion- able night resorts on the Riviers to

establish sources of information for a with whom she lived at Montpeller. Amirian, who is alleged to be the agent of a foreign Power, was track- ed to Paris and arrested in a bar in the Latin Quarter. When his home was searched numerous important Persian, were documents, written discovered.

Persian student named Amirian,

Two young Frenchmen, who re- cently completed their military services in regiment stationed near the Italian frontier, have also been arrested. One hundred and forty- three documents, including plans of fortincations, battery emplacements and the mobilisation scheme for the south-east of France, were found at the home of one of them.

He admitted that while employed as a typist at the headquarters of his regiment he bad made carbon copies of all the documents given him to type.

Finally, a 30-year-old Frenchman, of a also alleged to be the agent has Power, who

made foreign numerous motor trips across the bcen Spanish frontier to Irun, hus arrested. The man was starting a nt luxurious dancing establishment Montpelier at the time of his arrest, and documents concerning troop mobilisation plans have been found at one of his residences.

ANSCHLUSS CAUSES

DIVORCE

"Invincible Aversion" The Vienna correspondent of the Sydney land also is inhabited and

Daily Telegraph says that the first has several buildings upon . It by a Spanish explorer in 1567 but divorce on racial grounds since the two miles long and 18 miles wide. were not visited again until 200 years Anschluss has been announced in the

in the group, later.

Richly forested in most parts, Vienna court. The other Islands

It will be followed by or eight besides Canton and Enderbury, are the group contains seven

many others. Mc-Islands with mountains reaching us

big Gardner, Phoenix, Birnie and

The petitioner, director of a Keun. Outside

of tropical birds and high as 0,000 to 10,000 feet.

Vienna business, who joined the Nazi found

Stretching about 000 miles In a Party. sought a divorce from his the usual small wildlife

southeast direction, Jewish wife, to whom he was married tropical islands, living things are rare. northwest and

near Aah found

the the Islands sprend about 100 miles 17 years ago, on the ground that Many of the

wide and cover an area of about invincible aversion" prevented him islands are said to be noisonous.

land. They from living with her any longer. To the south of the Phoenix Group 11,000 square miles of

declared The court, summing up, are the Union Islands. This group are chlefly under British protection.

The New Hebrides

Group, consists of three separate clusters of

con- that a member of a party of which key wide

anti-Semitism was one of the Islands.

on

to 60,000 melomans.

10 mountainous, taining about The principal istands in each clus- and well wooded islands, lie to the points, could not be expected to live

For the

The ter are Fakoafu in the south-eastern-southeast of

The harmoniously with a Jewish wife. 65,000 to

and several most group; Nuku Nono, or the Duke

thousand foreigners are governed of York Island to the southwest.

tointly by France and Great Britain.

the

The

some

of the Islands include

1001,

TOWN HIRES RAT KILLER The Union Group was annexed to jointly by the British Dominions in 1918 and Products

San Marino, Cal. 1925 were placed under the rule of copra, colton, coffee, maize,

Rats have become so numerous and administrator of Western Samoa sandalwood, cocoa and livestock.

So much damage on all Many of the natives are savage and inflicted

cliy in behalf of New Zealand.

still practiced among kinds of property that the villages are clean and well-cannibalism

cotmeil has engaged an official rat of the tribes. kept. Copra is the only export.

The Loyalty southeast of the Union group

Islands to the south killer. To the

are are French and consist of three prin- Cook ile the

Islands. There COONOOSIOSCO eight islands in the group divided cipal islands and numerous islets and

shall, groups. The Ellee Group con- into the Lower Cook Islands and the rocks protruding from the ocean.

Between the New Hebrides and the sists of nine Islands, all inhabited. Northern Cook Islands. They are

are the Fil Islands There are 16 1stands in the Gilbert ali Included in the Dominion of New Union Group

owned by Great Britain. Zealand.

group group, inhabited by active and intel- Just to the east are the high, maun- contains about 155 islands covering ligent natives. Both are British. The fainous

Society Islands and the Tubat more than 7,000 square miles. The Marshall Islands, formerly German or Austral Islands.

Islands are important commercially, but now a Japanese protectorate, con The Society Group is divided into lying in the steamer roule between sist of two chains of islands running the Windward and Leeward Islands, Australia, Panama and British Colum- nearly parallel to each other In a

are about northwest and southeast direction. the former containing the famous bla. In addition, they

between India and The Caroline Islands, also Japanese, Tahill Island which is the site of the equidistant

ate to the west. There are more America. principal settlement of Pepeele, 1 good harbour and an ample supply The natives are orderly, clean and than 700 Islands in the group, but base.

strong. Most of them are Christians. the only ones of Importance The mountains are covered with To the south are the Eillce Talands Ponape, Yap, Truk and vegetation and numerous streams and and beyond, the Gilbert and Mar- United Press.

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