New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 26

ARDUND THE CLOGK WITH THE BRITISH The Sun Never Sefs on Its Dominions Washington, Dee. 17 (A — King George V of England will drop a link of his long title, if the recom- mendation of the London Imperial conference of leading in's dominions cepted. King George's title is: “George lerick Ernest Albert) V, by the statesmen in e of God, of the United King- |earth with one continuous and un-|north pole; 1 of Great Britain and Ireland of the British Dominions be- yond the Seas King, 1 jer of the Faith, Eniperor of Ind It is suggested that “the United Kingdom,” be dropped, because of the new status of Ireland, outside Ulster. The Irish Free State has taken its place in the massive Brit- ish empire In a position like that of a. “the | ted Kingdom" in the title is con- the Dominion of (anada, so sulered misleading. A Protean Territory “What is the British emplre?,” is the question answered in the follow- | mandate and at Walvis Bay, South| ing bulletin from the Washington, 1. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society. ‘It 1s more than crnmental units. It is a quarter of the land surface of the world. It Is a quarter of the population of the world—the estimate 400,000,000, The British empire is 58 millions of Christians, 94 millions of Moham- medans, 208 millions ot Hindus and 28 millions of pagans and others “Geographically the British empire is many diffe lifferent places; a coral atoll here, 4 dominion there, a cable station, a mandated district, ward of a savage | veople, or a coaling station—so that it cannot write {ts government in round hard words such as are found in the constitution of the United States. “While it {s winter in one-half of | the British empire, it is summer in | ther half, because the land area | distributed be- and northern is almost tween the southern hemispheres. This crops of one-half tha empire can feed the other half while its flelds lie dormant under the snow. Almost every kind of sofl, every kind of climate, and every kind of mineral are found in the British empire. Fngland is the empire's coal bin, Canada its wheat elevator, Austr: its packing plant .the Malay states the empire's rubber tree, South Africa its gold =nd diamond mines, and so on. The world's mountains and three of the greatest rivers, the Nile, the Ganges, and the equally vast lands. ‘Britain’ is a name nrobably born among the Basques of Spain or a related tribe. ‘England’ 'nd ‘English’ are from the German | ‘Angles”’ a conquering tribe that in- vaded the island. Although the roval family is now of the ‘House snd famlly of Windsor! it is des- cended from royalty of the German | Every Bag guaranteed to contain at least $2.00 worth of merchandise. 1,000 Bags at $1.00 Each 125 separate gov- ‘ hings in so many | means that the | highest | [ states, Hanover and Saxe-Coburg. “Queen Elizabeth’s first patent to Sir Walter Raleigh permitted Brit- ish subjects to accompany him to | America, ‘with guarantee of a con- tinuance of the enjoyment of all the |rights which he subjects enjoyed at home. The Revolutionary ~ war | which America waged to defend that |right proved to be a war of eman- cipation for all British colonies. Th |recent declaration of equality be. tween dominions . nd England her- self is an outgrowth of the guar- antee to the American colonies. The Non-Setting Sun Daniel Webster said of the Em- | pire: ‘A power which has dotted | over the surface of the whole globe | with her possessions and military | posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the s and keeping company circles the broken strain of the martial airs of | Englana.’ Let us company ish Empire. We stantaneous journey around the | world when it is sunrise, 6 a. m. at | Greenw observatory, 0 meridian, | just outside London. Tt is also 6 m. in the Shetland Island and at pital of Britain's ¥, 3.000 miles south, t the same moment it is 7 a. m. | at Malta in the Mediterranean, Mant Village in the British Cameroon West Africa, which is mandate to | the Union of South Africa. | 8 a m.at Gyprus, at Kerma near the fourth cataract of the Nile in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , Lake Tan- ¢ of Sal y, Rho- Natal | . at Bagdad, British Iraq ; Adef and British Somali- the Red Sea in the Sey- 10 a. m. at Mauritius in the In- dian Ocean and Gwadar in western- most India. 11 a. m. at Lahore in Punjab, Calleut in southern India, Audmatt in the Maldive Islands and New Amsterdam Island a British red | speck in the southern Indlan Ocean. Noon at Caleutta. One at Singapore 1 p. m. at Singapore. 2 p. m. at Sandakan, North Borneo; Condon, N Australla, and Coolgardie, tralia’s gold district. 3 p. m. exists on thrugh the dry desert of Australia to Port Lincoln. 4 p. m. at New Ireland in the Bis- marck Archipelago; Cloudy Moun- tain in Papua; on the Great Bar- rier Reef of Australia off M British rthwest Aus- valuable its phosphate desposits, Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides where Britain and France have joint rule, and | Cape Providence, easternmost point of New Zealand. 6 p. m. the sun is setting on the Britlsh Empire at Vanua Levu of the Fiji Islands, Tonga Islands and Chatham Tslan se places |are on the International Date Line they are the first places in the world to greet a new day. | Danger Island | 7 p. m. at Danger Island, a tiny atoll. | '8 p. m. Caroline Atoll upholds alone an Empire hour station. with the hours and get 24 slices of the Brit-| will start our in-| Gold | | 9 p. m. at the mouth of the |Mackenzle river, Alaska; White Horse near the Alaskan Panhandle and, 6,000 miles south on the same time line, Pitcairn island in the South Pacific. | 10 p. m. at Mt. Robson and Kam- |loops station on the Canadian Pa- lcific railroad. 11 p. m. at Regina, Saskatche- | an, in Canada’s wheat district. | 12 p. m. midnight at the mout | ot the Nelson river, Fort William |on Lake Superior and in British Honduras, Central Amerlca. | 1 a. m. between Ottawa and Mon- treal and at Kingston, Jamaica. | 2 a m. (On this time line Brit- ish territory stretches from | Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Cir- cle edge) at the eastern tip of |Grant Land, 600 miles from the at Labrador; Sydney, Nova Scotla; down the Atlantic to British Gulana and on down to the Falkland Islands. 3 a. near the Antarctic Circle. | 4 a. m. at the Sandwich group | nearby the South Orkneys. 5 a. m. at Ascension island in mid-Atlantic. the | m. at the South Orkneys | | vocated yesterday by Chaiman J. 6 a. m. back at Greenwich where it is still sunrise. We have sliced the world lengthwise 24 times and cut into British empire red at every slice. OCONVIOT PROSECUTORS San Dlego, Cal, Dec. 17.—(P— District Attorney Chester C. Kemp- ley and his chief assistant, C. Guy Selleck, were found guilty by a jury esterday of asking and recelving a ribe to misconduct a murder trial. They were charged with accept- ing $40,000 from Willlam R. John- son ot Chicago, to misconduct the trial of Thomas A. 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