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Britain Dots Globe With Isles
Taken in Centuries of Empire;
War Uses Justify Tiny Holdings
way.cerner of the werld. The Pelee.
laden is now about 4,000, ft Joao a
large overllow settled In New Orleans
and Moline, Central Anierica anduiaiea
There is ere other • little Island,
Stuck ei the North Sea, Which, of
couree, England' took — Heligoland.
She, however, tesealMed it with Ger.
Many for land in Zanzibar, an aoldeve-
Meat of Lord' Sellsbury's that she
came bitterly to regret• during the
WOW War,
There are two Christmas Ielande,
one in the Indian Ocean, the other in
the Atlantic. Tho former has 2,400
inhabitants, the latter 104.' Both be-
long to Blighted.
Restored Soine Wends',
But let us not lye unfair to Mother
leritain. 'She does not own the Azores,
the Canaries oe 'ther•Medeirae. She
once possessed the 'Celan Islands, but
gave them back to Greece. She cap-
tured Cuba in 1762, but restored it to
Spain in 1763. She captured Mar-
tinique and Guadeloupe, but gave
them again to France, and in the same
way she handed St. Eustatius beak to
Imperial Prescience" Seen in Early Acquisition of. Remote
Spots Now Strategic in Long Chain of Defence; -
Possessions Close to Shores of Other
Powers; Rock Once Commis-
sioned as Warship
Whether it is done absent mindedly, small island (720 square miles), it has
a place with the world's great pro-
ducers of sugar. Once "Reunion or
Bourbon," it belonged thee to France,
when she bade fair to own half, at
least, of India and not merely the
small patch, Pondichery, now alone
here. The British fleet, of course,
took Maurities. We get along through
the section of the Indian Ocean known
as the Carablan Sea, past the Lao-
cadlves, fourteen low lying coral is-
lands; past the Maldives, 420 square
miles. Round we go into the Bay of
Bengal. Here are the Andamans, nine-
teen islands, 3,000 -odd square miles,
until to England as a convict settle-
ment. Then come the Nicobars, 585
square miles, England's.
Singapore Gate to East
done by instinct or done merely by
chance, history and the map reseal
that England has shown a truly re-
markable habitude for possessing her-
self of little considered ocean remain-
ders in the form of small islands.
One canof course, see the force of
her owning all the islands, even the
remotest Hebrides and Orkneys, that
cluster or hand around her eoast, the
litter of them jumbled on the west
coast of Scotland, the Scilly Isles,
Manxland, Wight, Lindisfarne, Lundy
and the rest; no one else than Eng-
land could own them, and some owner
they must have.
But cross the Euglish Channel and
Isere are the Channel Islands, Jersey,
Guerneeee Alderney and Sark, Geo-
graphically they are a part of France.
Politically and administratively they
are England's. They are so French
that their Legislature functions bilin-
gually. England says, of course, they
are a residue of her once large French
dominions, and one must remember
that it was not till far down In Vic-
toriaet reign that the British House
of Lords ceased solemnly to appoint
a committee to hear petitions from
Aquitaine and Louraine. Well, grant
that having these islands only come
In this way, it might be awkward to
give them up.
Mediterranean Possessions.
Enter the Mediterraneap, what is
Gozo? Gozo is an island of twenty-
six square miles near Malta. To w-hom
does it belong? Ob, to England, of
course. "Well," says England, "it Is
too near Malta to belong to any one
but to me. Who owns Malta (itself,
by the way, only 117 square miles)?
01 course, England owns Malta. It
was a usetul basewhen the Napoleonic
Wars were raging from Spain to
Palestine and thiough Egypt, Italy,
Austria and Dahnatia. Still more im-
portant later.
Did some dim Imperial prescience
warn England of the coming day,
when, by the opening of the Suez
Canal, Malta would become one of the
links in the chain linking London with
India and the Far East, thus, Eng-
land, Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, A.den, In-
dia, Singapore, Hongkong?
Eater now the Red Sea. Here is
Perini, a very small island. England's,
of course. She holds Aden. mei mili-
tary opinion held that Perini, if not
absolutely neceesary, was very desir-
able. Hence Perim is Brinell.
Socotra at Strategic Point.
Now we are in the Indian Ocean.
Here, as you emerge, is Socotra, Ivo -
diming "dragon's" blood and aloes and
at a strategic point It is 1,200 square
nines and is England'sof course. And
here are the Seychelles, 148 square
some other flag hoisted there to in-
tones, with no very distinctive place
crease the risk of Napoleon's escape."
to fill in the world of sand, air and
Then we have the Bermudas, 900
water. save, Indeed, that here erows
nines from the 'United States, and Bri-
de mere fvegetable ivory).
tish since 1654. In the war of 1812
t' -me in handy, too, wben England
the American fleet showed England
wanted a prison for Arabi Paella at
tshe had ground to powder hiat-
how important the Islands (nineteen
ee e
square miles in all) could be, and they
tempts to become dictator, er 8000- were fortified from 1815 on. In the
reign, in Egypt.
West Indies are Barbados, 170 square
We pass by Mauritius, for, timegli a
miles; St. Kitts, 63; Nevis, 50; Bar -
78, and her islands in the Virgin
group, the entire area of the group
beteg only 275 square miles.
In the :tea between Jamaica and
Cuba are the three Cayman Islands, peeving each pattern shows the ma -
dependencies of Jamaica. Of what terial as it appears when cut out.
nee they are to Jamaica, or jamiaca Every detail is explained so that the
to thene it would be hard to say. inexperienced sewer can make without
Grand Cayman is seventeen miles difficulty an attractive dress. Price
long, much of it swamp, much of It of the book 10a the copy.
white limestone. The Caymans were ROW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Proceed eastward. At the Up of
Malaya we find Singapore, which,
though few remember it ,ie an island,
217 miles, to be strongly fortified, for
it is very strategic. It is the big. gate
to the Further East. On, and North,
we reach Hongkong, within call of the
Chinese coast, 820 square miles; Eng.
land's, Say little of her possessions
in the Pacific (they are almost innum-
erable, counted as separate isles and
islets). In a region where an empire
has absorbed Australia (3,000,000
square miles), New Zealand (104,000
square miles) and Tasmania (27,000
square miles), to say nothing of the
greater part of New Guinea and
Borneo, to whom should the rest of
it in fragments, like Fiji, belong 2 etat
to her? She has done herself viers'
well, even if she does not own quite
all.
But away to the Atlantic, rounding
the Cape, which by all the rules of the
game should be known as Game's, but
is actually known as the Cape of
Good Hope. Kerguelen, ninety miles
long, almost clue south of the Cape,
British gazetteers regretfully admit,
is "elaimed by France." The Crozets
are uninhabited, but there are the
Prince Edward Islands, with the fa-
miliar red underscore. There are
Gough, the (Atlantic) Sandwich Is-
lands, South Georgia, hundreds of
miles apart. The last-named is unin-
habited, but its 1,200 square miles of
emptiness are British. Then there are
the Falkland Islands, 500 square
miles, and the F. 1. dependencies.
Northward we find St Helena, the
"black wart" rock, with patches of
fertility in its depressions ,that Eng-
land made useful as a cage for Na-
poleon. St. Helena is 875 square nines.
Ascension on the List.
Aeceusion, 700 miles away, is small-
er; population 240. Ascension was
taken by the British because, as Ad-
miral Cockburn said, "We don't want
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ISSUE No, 11—'28
Holland, and though her sailors knew
and wanted the Sandwich Islands long
before there was any United States of
America, it is to the United States,
not to England, that Hawaii belongs.
Similarly America owns the Phillip -
pines, though Spain still owes Eng-
land some £17,000,000 on them, never
paid. Perhape never really ethically
owed, but quite enough to afford an
excuse for taking the islands,
Perbaps, however, the oddest of
England's island possessions is the
Diamond Rock in the Wrest Indies.
This, during the wars with France,
Shone bravely as a battery post. It
was taken and regularly commission-
ed in the Admiralty books as a war-
ship. ' Cannon were hoisted up its pre-
cipitious sides and for years it gave
a good account of itself in naval con-
tests that took place near bY,
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discovered by Columbus in 1503. The
Spaniards, after they took Jamaica
in 1509, drew a supply of turtles
from these islands. When Jamaica
became British, in 1655, the Caymans
were automatically tacked on to her,
and by degrees gathered a population,
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Vithaler18 Life Hard
Crew of the Sir James Clark
Ross Tells of Strenuous
Adventures in the Ant-
arctic With the
Harpoon
Lith on e whaler In the Antarctic:
is described vividly by members of
the crew of the Worwegiau steamer
Sir Janthe Clark Rose, which arrived
recently in New York from the bottom
of the world wail a largo cargo of
whale oo. .1
The vessel, whose home port is the
little town of Sandefjord, not far from
Oslo, has just put in several months
in the Ross Sea, which Commauder
Byrd will cross to reaeb his base foe
his' Sbuth ole flight. She is a sturdy
craft, 470 feet long, and having a
tonnage Of 8,224, Her mingle funnel
is buff and black and he solid how
is double -plated Tee paint has been
scraped off her sides by the tireless
chafing of the ice, and great irregular
splotches rise upward, from her water..
line, but on deck she is neat and ship-
shape. Unlike one -legged Ahab of
"Moby Dick," the men aboard her
Were not hunting a single almost
fabulous sea monster. They brought
in 48,000 barrels of oil. This repre-
sents a kill of more than 600 whalee.
The crew of the Ross said they saw
more whales this year than ever be-
fore,
The Start of the Ross' Trip
"The Rose left Norway in August,
as she does every year," said one of
her sailors; a blond-haiied desecend-
ant of the Vikings, "and steamed for
the Antarctic via the rename Canal.
She made two stops. The first was
in New Zealand, where she took on
coal, and the second was at Stewart
Island. The latter is a small island
300 miles further south. It has 240 in.
habitants and its only industry is the
raising of sheep. There she took on
fresh food and pushed her way south
toward the Ice.
'It is within the ice that the Ross
does the actual whaling. She is ac-
companied by five small steamers,
each about 117 feet loffig, or about the
sie of a tugboat. These are known
as the whalers. The big ship we call
the 'cookery.' Aboard th big ship the
whales are cut up and boiled down
so as to get the Whale oil.'.
The men In the small ships are the
actual whelees, and during the time
that the vessed is within the ice they
lead a life of extreme hardship. On
the way dime and back they are pas-
sengers and have nothing to do, and
they are Idle like the rest of the whal-
ing men for the three months of the
Summer while the vessel is refitting.
But while the wbaling is going in -they
work tirelessly. They are ,constantly
exposed- to wind and weather and
sometimes go days and even weeks
with only a few hours of sleep. They
are, however, extremely well paid,
A single gunner—the man who aims
and fires the small mortar which hurls
heavy harpoons loaded with dyne-
mite-enakes frequently as much as
the captain of a transatlantic liner.
Indeed, according to the sailors on the
Sir James Clark Ross, there is a case
of a gunner accounting for 515 whales
in a single season and making e50,000.
The Gunner's Work
A. gunner on the Ross described
the method of working:
"When the whales are sighted the
boat tries to creep up as close to them
ftS possible. This is a ticklish busi-
ness, as it is necesary to get within
thirty fathoms before we can fire. We
try to fire at .the whale's heart, and
frequently four or live shots are
necessary.
"The harpoon weighs several hun-
dred pounds and to the end of it is
attached a heavy cable. This is tap-
ered. Close to the harpoon it is rather
thin, but it soon becomes heavier,
laaving a maximum circumference of
five inches. Naturally this weighs
considerable, and is the reason why
the gun has such extremely short
range."
As soon as the whale is killed it
is pumped full of air, he said, and
a marker In the form of a tall pole
with a distinctive flag is placed on it.
Then the whaler goes after the next
one. When enough have been killed
they are towed back to the main ship
for reducing. This must be done fair-
ly soon, for a whale left too long in
the water swells up like a balloon and
spoils.
The life of the whaler is not only
exciting but dangerous, for the whale
sometimes becomes infuriated and
charges. As a large whale is 150 feet
long and can attain a speed of twenty
knots he can do considerable damage.
"A charging whale bas enough force
to smash right through the plates of
one of these small boats," said the
gunner, and remarked that once off
the coast of Africa, he had seen a
small boat sunk.
The life led by the men on the
mother ship, though less vigorous, is
strenuous. Thisyear it was relative-
ly easy, .or the ROSS encountered ex-
ceptionally good Weather. She usual-
ly encounters ice about 500 nines
Sheep Grow Own Pasture
Lonaou—Grass growing on the
backof sheep 1s the latest three Of
mixed farming in title eellutrY,
This freak ef nature le reported
from Goethe Hall Perm neon*
groee, Worcestershire, were the
Molts of sheep, which for some
raonths lied been grazing .near a
haystack, were found to be green,
Examination showed this was due
to the germination ot greets seeds
which had fallen freni the hay-
stacks on their backs. The con-
tinuous wet weather, coupled with
the heat of the animals' bodies,
had caused the seed to sprout.
Whether the sheep are to be
trained to graze off their owe backs
is not stated,
south of New Zealand, but this year
did not meet it for nearly a thoutand
miles.
It it the ice that causes tee Whaling
ship her greatest' difficulties. Even
in calm weather it 'grinds, and serapes
against her sides and frequently be-
comes so heavy that the 'crew has to
disembark and cut a way through it
with picks and ice axes. At other
times the safety of the vessel has been
menaced when a high wind has' turn-
ed the floe into a grinding mass,
ethich at times seem almost to eave
the force to cruse her heavy sides.
Salt Horse and Hardtack -
Monotony of diet is another hard-
ship faced' by the Whaler. Only a
limited amount of fresh food cyan be
carried on the vessel and the whaling
men are forced back on the "salt
horse" and hardtack of sailing -Ale
days. They seek to relieve this situ-
ation by trying new sorts'of faod of-
fered by the Antarctic. Fish they
have, which they can often cateh in
plenty, and they also try penguin eggs
and 'Whale steaks. The former aro
not very popular, but the latter are
considered palatable, especially if
they come from a small whale.
"The steak should be cut about
*thirty or forty inches forward 01 the
tail," said a sailor on the Roes, "or,
in other words, just aft of amidships.
In that case it Is likely to be :very
good."
The experiences of the SIT James
Clark Ross are about the same as
'those of other whaling ships. Sixteen
members of the crew of the wrecked
C. A. Larsen—a steamer of 13,000 tons,
the largest in the serviee—returned
on the Ross, and they told how their
vessel had killed more than eight
hundred Whales and was carrying 76,- ,
000 barrels of whale oil when she
struck a reef outside of the harbor of
Stewart Island Fortunately most of
the oil was salvaged.
Most of the' returning whale ships
tell of encounters with ice.
Min'arci's Liniment for cuts and bruises
An Enterprising Citizen.
"What are you doing with that red
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"ph, I just found it. 'Some careless
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road."
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tused in Canada thala lin party which included' the Duke
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ing with him for being absent from
his regiment without leave and order-
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"The Duke of Cambridge was very
annoyed at the Prince of Wale's inter-
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'a mistake and. I must return and tfeeA
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back to London and went straight to
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Bi h
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Lord Roeslyn, who has played in his
time for high stakes and .itedepts his
losses without railing, recalls an
eventful life in a biography he has
written. The turf, the cerdroom and
the gaming table, all' three eelde ef
sigma vietoty tie well as of erushing
defeat, :bulk largely in his .memoirs,
Which thalude his experiences in the
combined
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epairing Famous Marberough House, where I found
. H. R, H. apparently very irate at my
Keeps Chief Busy behavior.
"Nothing would satisfy him that I
had been granted unconditional leave
London,—The 2,000 statuary casts until,' es I was leaving his presence, he
of the famous folk of history and plartaigeraltojoties, hewhaireth'e hoatidnthbnetenateolinis.
mythology which were vanished TTOIII
cocted over night in the Maelborote h
the rystal Palace during tee war are dub by 111a;cus Beresford Ohl -
back on exhibition again, but they aro toiler Sykes and others of his en -
not quite the same as they used to be tourage. So I drive quickly back to
and as classified now they make Combe, to hear the Duke of Cam-
. Midge repeat, 'Silly joke!' So stepidl
strange company.
In a room supposed to be sacred to Well, well l' '
The '80s and '90s were an age of
Grecian statuary, Queen Victoria is
found turning, pdrhaps for sympathy practical joking. Lord Roselyn de-
scribes the discomfiture of a friend
to Cleopatra. G4adstohe beholds the
backs of a dozen beauttiful women, named King who, entering the thole
while Diseaeli is almost lost among after the races at Liverpool, dropped
his ticket en the carriage flew: •
four Venuses, a couple of Eves, Lady
Godiva and some nymphs about to
enter., invisible baths.
Joseph Cheek, superintendent, nurse
and surgeon for all statues, busts and
models in the palace, admits that the
classification might be improved, but
explains that he has had a big job the
last seven years getting them all to
light again and repairing the damage
done when they were hustled out to
make room for war -time occupation of
the palace.
I -"I have put together beauties that
have been broken into bits, to say
nothing of providing new noses for
old Venuses by the score,' he "said,
'and making ears and feet and arms
and legs fur all sorts and conditions
of nymphs, ancient heroes and Vic-
torian statesman. The most difficult
task is lingers. But I have made so
many hundreds of them now that I
merely take one look where the miss-
ing finger was and go straight away.
and make ^another that will fit on cor-
rectly.
"Don't worry about the classifica-
tion,. We'll get them all placed right
in time."
The nation's doctor bill is now
million'and a half a day, but apples
are not cheap, either. What to do?
What to do?
Vicious criminals gee too much rope
of wrong sort and too little of right
sort.
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"Quick as lightning Marcus (Beres-
ford) put his foot on it and later pick-
ed it up. King was saying he had only
jest sufficient to pay for his tickeL
On arrival at Willesden tickets were
being collected, and we all passed ours
to Marcus, who was near the window.
King fumbled .about for his and, not
finding it, said desperately, 'What on ,
earth ani I to do?' Get under the seat,
(laicise said Marcus, and ender it Ring'
went like a rabbit. Marcus handed
the .collector five tickets, who asked
where the other passenger was travel-
ing. 'Under the seat,' said Marcus,
'he prefers it,' and out crawled the
wretched King to our great amuse-
ment.”
Strange Streams
Underground Rivers Are
Found in Originate in
Three Ways
One of 'nature's' odditiesie the
underground river, many of which
have been found beneable the, United
States. Streams under the earth's'
surface arise in three different ways.
One of them is by water seeping
thhrough limestone rock and lunette
ender the surface, to emerge some
distance away. Charles P. Berkey,
Professor of Geology and Mineralogy
at Columbia 'University, says that "the
underground waters move bbrougls
the fractures and joints of the rock
and gradually dissolve some of it,
making in this way more and more
room for the flowing water. . . This
kind of action forms .caves, many of
which are extensive indeed."
In many limestone regions small
disappeared into the geound. Sub.
aelt:,Elea:s. developed on the surface have
sandy and gravel t.o thappear further
terratean rivers. are also formed in
The third way in which under-
ground rivers take form, according to
Julian D. Sears of the United State§
Geological Survey, is disclosed in dis-
tricts "where large areas have been
submerged by lava which is likely to
break upon cooling in such a way as
to be very permeable. In some of the
lava -covered areas the water sinks as
vapidly as it does in limestone and
tends to follow tile pre-existing
stream ways and eventually to
emerge in large springs. Under-
ground streams of this type are found
in Irate, Oregon and California.
These :rivers, are often traced by
following sinkholes—depressions shale
ed like saueers with holes in the bot-
tom, Sometimes underground rivers
wear away the Guth and rock above
them and make their subterranean
courses visible. They may be traced
when invisible by putting coloring
matter in them, uranin dye being
adapted to tbe purpose, Last year,
neap Manchester, England, an under-
ground river traced, in this way was
found to be more than eight milett
long.
Big Lake, Arkansas, is one of the
best known outlets of underground
rivers. It is eupposed that this lake
has a commotion with the eliseiseippi,
nasowitorfistei•wsetilnitviei.
folie Wel the ebb and
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