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Show PALMYRA ISLAND Is OF 9 NO USE TO BRITISHER ?VB LONDON, March 4. Francis Dvko tffl Acland, parliamentary under-secretarv mB of foreign affairs, in a speech In tho ilB houso of commons, today said that 'B Palmyra Island, in tho Pacific ocean. IBf had once been sold for a dollar and fln that its only inhabitants wero crabs. H Discussing the news that the Unit- MB od States cruiser West Virginia had planted the stars and stripes on the Hi island, he said Great Britain had long .B alnce abandoned all Interest in It. fH on 9H |