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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20470, 13 February 1932, Page 6

Two uncharted islands appear off the coast of Brazil, the ijroduct of a suboceanic volcano and the property of whoever claims them first. They are hailed as possible landing places for tranS-Atlaiilio aeroplanes. Two ,nations see in them valuable refuelling bases, and dispatch fast navy ships in a racO for priority. And when one of the ships comes it sails over the place where the islands were reported, L'or they have disappeared.. The sama story is repeated several times a year. The'earth, usually thought'of as solidity itself, rises and dives again like a porpoise; no one can predict where it will bob up next, though some favourite ' playgrounds are familiar. Japan ia ; rocked by an earthquake and the island |of Sunkati disappears. The British ' UydtograpJiie Department issues A stat6I nient that "the existence of Dougherty ! Island has been disproved," and orders all references to the vagrant to bo expunged from official publications. London's most treasured civic jewel, as it is the oldest, i§ probably the batoh, eighteen inches long, cut from pure crystal and, inlaid with gold, which each Lord Mayor holds in his hands for a -lew minutes once a. year as a symbol of his uuthority. There is wo record showing how old it really i-j. but- Ihe wQt-Uiniliiijliip i* of the j AugkHgason period.