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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930.

INFLUENZA GERM

Bacteriologist Claims to Have Found It

TESTS ON MONKEYS

Research With 18 Assistants: Vaccine Cure Hope

A WORLD PLAGUE

An American bacteriologist, Professor Isadore S. Falk, of Chicago University, elaims to have isclated the germ of influenza and reproduced the disease in monkeys.

THE

ANCIENT GEM OF

BRITISH CROWN

TERCENTENARY OF BRITISH POSSESSION OF BAHAMAS

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ROUND THE CINEMAS

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEAR-

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That fine British play, "The Last of Mrs, Cheyney," delightfully pro- Three hundred years have pass-duced as a talkle, was shown at the LY MEETING of the SHARE- ed since the beginning of British Queen's Theatre for the first time HOLDERS in this Corporation rule in the Bahamas, British yesterday and received favourable will be held at City Hall, Hong West Indlea, and in connection comment from all who saw it. The Kong, on SATURDAY, the 22nd with the 300th anniverary of the unanimous opinion is that it is the February, 1930, at 11.30 am. for Royal Grant to Sir Robert Heath, beat talkie yet presented in Hong the purpose of receiving the Re- | Attorney-General of Britain, a Kong.

port of the Board of Directora number of celebrations have re- The photography was good, parti- together with a Statement of Ac- cently taken place in the islands cularly of the romantic garden counts for the year ending 31st He hopes as a result to secure a vaccine by which cures of the A message from the King is púb-scene, which was superb. The December, 1929.

Fished in the Nassan Guardian, I talking, which started with the first The Register of Shares of the disease may be effected..

conveying the "heartlest can- flicker of the film, was very natural Corporation will be CLOSED from Influenza and the common cold are two afflictions about which gratulations" of the King and and clearly heard. The accent, tob, we know practically nothing and which we have no means of pre-Queen. The mesange says!~- was carefully introduced by all the venting. If Professor Falk's discovery has a solid foundation it is

Our son, Prince George, who members of the cast. rotains mast pleasing recol- Norma Shearer, who played the of world-wide importance.

lections of his visit to your Is-title role was slightly American | lands, joins with us in expressing when talking with "Charles," but it our sincere wishes for the con- was just noticeable and did not tinued prosperity of this ancient affect the excellence of her acting.

Three years ago Drs. David and Robert Thomson, the Harley Street bacteriologists, isolated what may be the same germ and have since been carrying out further researches.

A YEAR'S TASK

Professor Falk began his search for the inlluenza germ on December 12, 1928, during the height of an epidemic.

Various experts of Chicago University's bacteriological de- parlament were mobilised said to number 18). They gathered speci mens and isolated and tested more than 3,800 different microbes in the Arst six weelts, gradually reducing them to eight general types. They used more than 125 monkeys for their experiments.

Now Professor Falk has announc ed at a meeting of the Bacteriology Club of the university that he has isolated 1hr

"atrep tococcus" which is described as a virulent species of microbe.

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The professor Kaid that it looked like "a microscopic chain of un matched beads which a child had strung together."

"We hope," he added, "to be able to perfect a vacene from dead microbes of the germ which may be absorbed through the mucous mem brine of the nose and throat and thus effect a cure."

Professor Falk warns people that they must not expect too much from the discovery. "Chain-Microbe" & Blood-Poisoning Influenza, 80 far as our present knowledge extends, is like a very severe cold which poisons the whole system.

About once in every quarter of a century it is suddenly changed into a devastating plague which sweeps the world. The most recent of Buch "pandemics" (or world-wide plagues) was the one which occurr- ed in the winter of Armistice year, when there were more than 114,000 deaths in Britain: To date this year in England and Wales, there have been 14,843.

increased

The eause of this severity appears to be that for some reason at present unknown the

"'chain- or streptococcus, microbe," which is the cause many virulent Infections such as ertsipelns, jumps in and hits the body when it is down.

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Whatever the primary cause of be influenza may (and modern bacteriologists are not at all con- vinced that it

is the alleged "Bacillus Influenzae" of Pfeiffer), paratively innocuous until its "big brother," the streptococcus, joins in.

the fact remains that it is com-

A Killer

I see that Professor Falk has us 125 monkeys in the course of his task. Research work on that scale has never been done before and such experiments are very valuable. Work has been done with rabbits, but mankeys appear to be far more satisfactory

I see, too, that he has been working in collaboration with a group of 18 people. This is also very important, because it is not possible for one person to find enmuch time to carry out all the necessary work.

for the purpose.

Preparing the Vaccine

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MONDAY, the 10th February, to

Saturday, the 22nd February, 1930 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares cah be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. C. HYNES,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1980.

Herbert Bunston had a difficult We are not unmindful of the role to sustain as Lard Elton, but recent visitation which has afflict-did it well. Ably supported by ed New Providence, and in the

Finch Smiles as "William." he car- midst of your

ried the humour of the play with THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, rejoicing your mind will no doubt turn to those delightful diguity. Basil Rathbone who have suffered bereavement

was acen to advantage as Lord And loga.

Arthur Dilling, whilst George Barraud was natural as the cool calculating "Charles."

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In conveying this message congratulation, the Queen and I add our carneet good wishes for the future happiness and welfare of the Bahamas and their inhabit

ants.

Early Days

The parts of all the ladies in the

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN play were in capable hands, parti- ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the THIRTY-SECOND cularly that of the elderly "Mra. Wynton," which was well played by of this Company will be held at

Madeline Seymour. "Mrs. Chey- ney's" servants were also happily

It is a picture well worth seeing more than once.

the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.,'on FRIDAY,

the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ended 31st December, 1929.

The Register of Shares of the | Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 7th February, 1930, to Friday, the 14th February, 1930, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

An interesting reference to the portrayed they being very fanny in the 14th February, 1930, at 11.00 early, days of the islands is con the sing-song after the charity con- n.m., for the purpose of receiving tained in the same paper. "Acert at "Mrs. Cheyney's" mansion, though the Bahama Islands," says the writer, "were the gateway through which Christopher Colum- bus entered the New World in

"THE IRON MASK” October, 1492, and as such may It will take some time to establish definitely that the strep- lay claim to historical distinction,

Allan Divan, the noted director tococcus discovered is indeed that the intrinsic value of the islands und producer, brings to the screen of influenza. If it is found that which he visited was not sufin vivid realism, Dumas's "The Iron it has been isolated, it will be cient to hold the interest of their Mask," which is the attraction in possible to prepare from it a discoverer long, and with the de: the World Theatre, till Wednesday. vaccine which should prevent peoception of Ponce de Leon's com- As in "The Three Musketeers," ple from having the complaint. mission from the King of Spain Douglas Fairbanks again does brit

'to find and settle the island of liant During the last three years I have been carrying out re- Bimini with its traditional Foun- searches by a new method alto-tain of Youth, they appear to gether.

have been trying to have been entirely forgotten until, get at the streptococcus by photo at the suggestion of the Governor graphing cultures of my sputum. of Hispaniola, the Spaniards took I have kept records of my suptum away the 40,000 Lucayan inhabit- when in perfect health and also ants to that island where they when suffering from an attack of met a sad fate. influenza. I have found that the

iscinted streptococcus I

three

years ago has cropped up when I have been suffering from an at tack of influenza.

influenza.

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"The Spaniards held no strong- er title to these islands than a Papal bull, and it was left to the adventurous British navigators to envisage the prospeats of the

after he discovered

I saw it in the sputum of a | Bahamas. Had Sir Humphrey person who had an attack of Gilbert not met with an untime

ly end soon Newfoundland, he eventually might have embraced these islands in the territory which he set out to coloniae, as his patent from Queen Elizabeth in 1878 *for the inhabiting and planting of our people in America' gave him fall liberty to explore and settle in any 'remote, heathen and bar barous lands, countries and terri-

I have just recovered from an attack of influenza and I am very interested to see what the photographs of my sputum show. I have been waiting for this at- tack for nine months-I suppose I might say that I almost wel- comed It.

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The task of finding the In- fluenza germ is very difficult, as

so many varieties of strepto-tories not actually coccus are normally found in a human being. That is why it took so long to discover the germ of scarlet fever.

to complain that they wore vic- timised by Imperial policy. They have struggled gamely against long periods of adversity and have found ways to advance, how. ever difficult the circumstances."

Lord Burnham's Tribute Another tribute was sent by Viscount Burnham stating:-

West "When I visited the

way of

the

of

work In the role "D'Artagnan," supported by Leon Bary ("Athos") S. J. Sandford ("Porthos") And Gino Carrado ("Aramis").

The historical story opens in the reign of Louis XIIIth, in 1638, when all France is over-joyed at the birth of a son and heir. But there is a twin brother, born and this is kept a strict secret, the King even being untold of it.

The film is a splendid one. The scenes are pretty and the characters have been wall chosen.

HAICHING PIRACY

the

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X-ray photos showed that bullet had passed from the wound on the shoulder to the back and hnd fractured the third, fourth and fifth ribs on the left.

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Witness also noticed two small

All possessed of wounds on the back of accused's left any Christian Prince We like

or people. band and, two flesh wounds in the to think that the left thigh, about four inches above Bahamas were destined from the the knee. From the appearance beginning to form a part of the of those wounds, the bullet must great British Empire and wero

have passed clean through the soft settled first. by men of our race tissues of the left thigh. and not acquired from a foreign nation by conquest.

It is with

All,broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 10th inst., at 10 a.m. by our surveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

On December 30 witness operated on the accused and removed frag-ed. ments of a bullet from his buck.

ed These witness sent to the Police.

The Doctor Thanked

no little gratification and pride, therefore, that we celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the Royal Grant to Sir Robert Asked if he had any questiors Heath of the Islands to the to ask, third accused replied that he South.'

had none, adding "I want to thank the doctor for saving my life."

The streptococcus is certainly tho CAUSE of the intense blood poison: Indies six years ago I entered the the House ing which occurs in severe cases during what may be termed the Archipelago by

plague years. It is capable of beauties of the Bahamas, and my first view of the historic sex causing a virulent and fatal type of

from the Бел broncho-pneumonia. It transforms garden was

Coming south Influenza from a pat into a punch. front of Nassau,

by ocean steamer the approach It is a killer.

It is further pointed out that of Assembly of the Bahamas ranks third in age among the Colonial Parliaments of the British Empire.

Romantic History bration were

Hearty felicitations for the cele- sent from London

which stated:-

The next witness was Hong tho Chung, a cook employed on Halching. He said that his cabin was in the forward end of the for- ward tween deck.

Probably the fact that the King was sheer delight, and I shall not by the Royal Empire Society, alde of the spar deck,

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had been undergoing a course vaccine treatment against it after his illness in 1925 played its part in his wonderful recovery from his more recent illness, which was due to a streptococcal Infection.

The streptococcus which has been discovered may well be the same germ as was isolated by Dr. David Thomson and his brother in London three years ago. But to say that it is found in influenza patients is not proef enough that it is the cause of the disease. The medical pro-

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On December 8 he went on duty in the second class at 1 am. He proceeded there along, the starboard Passing the bunker hatch, he looked in and saw "The chequered and wholly five man in it, whilst five or six'. The following programme will be romantic history of the Bahaman others were standing around the broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 355 might almost be taken as a mir hatchway on the starboard side. croceam of the Colonial bistory of The grille was off. Witness ask-metres:- Spain and Britain. Spain never ad what so many people were doing

5-6 p.m.-Programme of Column- attempted to settle any of her there, but one of the men round the bia Records supplied by Courtesy own people on the lalands, but hatch told him that nothing was the of Messrs. Anderson. which is my house, no ill requital natives for the exploitation of enceeded to the second class,

ruthlessly cleared them of their matter. Thus reassured, he pro-

readily forget the warmth of my welcome nor the accumulation of hospitalities which were compress- ed into a stay of but a few hours. I fear a long speech at the ban- quet kindly given me by the mem hers of the Legislature was a sorry requital, but Waller, who lived

to quote in the house

can efface' auch kindness.

Her title to

He did

"In perorations about the Bri- terprises elsewhere. When Bri- not suspect the men unth he heard tish Empire there is often a well-tain annexed them they were de shots soon after he had got to the worn about the Jewels in the t Islands, rioting in their second class Witness saw no signs fession of Britain has not yet diadem of our sovereign, Those tropical bentity, and given over to of firearms on the men whom ha accepted the theory that it is. who have revelled in the en- the undieputed possesalon of mos saw at the hatch.

The case proceeded after timin. Influenza takes so many forma trancing and brilliant colours of quito and pirate. that even exact diagnosis is always the Caribbean Sea will always dramatic coincidence which can

them, challenged aften, was by a

THE HAICHING difficult. Until that is possible think of the West Indian Islands not fail to appeal to the imagina

as the best justification of the tion, only confirmed under the

To' Résume Coastal Run metaphor, which is no more than Treaty by which she recognised

Tomorrow plain, unvarnished truth. In your in the United States the sover twofold centenary or law and

laboratory tests must be hampered.

Vital Importance".

Dr. David Thomson, the Harley street bacteriologist, who with his brother, Dr. Robert Thomson, isolated an influenza, germ three years ago and has been carrying out further researches since, said to

reporters

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The Douglas B. Halching was Tonio (Taddeo, Act 2), eignty of thirteen rebel colònies: liberty you will have the best Many who were to help to de unlocked on Saturday and, is now Peppo (Harlequin, Act 2).

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wishes and the sincerest con-

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perfect loyallies of your ancient Empire Loyalists, which accounts he looks speck and span with her Silvio with Chorus of Villager's and famous colony, among whom for much in their latter-day at new bridge and superstructure. tachment, despite the economie

She is duo, to leave:for Foochów,

I think that Professor Falk I am proud to find myself on such pull of the Republic. These Amoy and Swatow at 2 D.m. to may very probably be right end an auspicious occasion"-- -- - dens of the ocean, as the |:MQTTOW.

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