'AMBOANGA, P. L—In area Zamboanga is legally the biggest city in the world But it doesn't look it as your inter-island steamer drifts past this palm-fringed spread of coastal villages the Sulu Sea.
A Mohammedan community in the Southern Philippines, it has a total area of 1,058 square miles, compared with New York's 310, squ are miles, Tokyo's 833, square miles, London's 699, Los Angeles's 442.5 and Berlin's 348 square miles, writes Violet Sweet Haven in the "New York Times."
Situated on the west coast of Mindanao, the largest and ain-most ippine island, Zami lies 512 miles south of Manila, or [two days by air-conditioned. steamer. Originally founded by the Spania Fin 1635 as a fort of defence
-peacefully in tropical splendour. Its Moros, " Zamboanga, today—hasks 1131,000 people the under perpetual -sun without the harrying typhoons which frequent the northern. islands, especially Luzon.
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