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It is learned from an authorita tive source that a regular air mail service between Manila and San Francisco, via Quam, Midway Island, Wake Island and Honolulu will be commenced shortly, linking Hong Kong.

The service will be operated by Pan American Airways and It is Intended to connect one service

with Imperial Airways. another i with the Chinese National Aviation third with Corporation and a South West Aviation Corporation from Canton to Hanoi.

It is understood that lighter planes will be used for the Hong Kong-Manila section of the ser- vice, but load capacity machines will be used on the longer distances covering about 2.400 miles.

| MALNUTRITION

AMONG POORER CHINESE CLASS

SOUTHERN New Stamps

CRUISE

Itinerary Of

H. M. S. Folkestone

RETURNING

For Colonies

DESIGN DESCRIBED

EFFIGY OF THE KING

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HERE JAN. 4. Arrangements

are

now "being made for new issues, at or about the date of the Coronation next year, or Colonial stamps bearing the effigy of his Majesty. The new issues will be confined at first to a few denominationa for each territory and will be based on a common design. These stamps will form part of new permanent issues and will not be special Coronation

No such special Corona- tion issuez, for the Colonies are at present in contemplation.

H.MS. Folkestone (Captain a c. Martin sailed from Hong Kong yesterday morning on a southern cruise. She will return on Janu- ary 4, and the crew will spend Christmas at Singapore and will see the New Year in at sea on the return voyage to the Colony.

The sloop will arrive at Sings-issues.. pore on September 29, "and will re- main there until October 14, In the meantime her new crew will have arrived from Home aboard H.M. Troopship Lancashire.

From Singapore, HMS. Folkes- tone will proceed to Semarang. ar- riving on October 17. After stay of four days, she will leave for Sourabaya where she is due to arrive on October 22 The same. day she will "depart for Bali, Java, and on arrival at this beautiful pears in words at the base of the Isle of the south seas on October | stamp. 23. she will remain there for three .day.

*

The stamp, will be of standard

The design' comprises size.

2 three-quarter profile vignette of the King's head in a circle, placed

towards the top left-hand corner o the stamp, with the Imperial the top right-hand Crown in corner. The name of the Territory is shown at the bottom right-hand corner, and the denomination ap-

The above arrangements will

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apply to Aden, the Bahamas. Leaving Ball on October 26, the Bermuda, British Guiana, British sloop will arrive at Dilhi, Timor, Honduras, the British Solomon Ceylon,

Many Suffering From on October 29. On November 2 Islands Protectorate,

Beri-Beri

SOCIETY'S REPORT FOR AUGUST

Inspectors of the Society for the Protection of Children. In their latest reports, state that malnu- trition is on the increase amongst mothers of the poorer Chinese classes, many of whom have been found to be suffering from beri- beri. Reference to this fact was made at the monthly meeting the Executive Commit- tee of the Solety. held on Mon- day evening. over, which the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall pres'ded.

It was stated that the Incidence to beri-beri was largely due 0: mothers living chiefly on rice. which was the only diet they coula afford. In cases dealt with by the Society. soup is being supplied. this containing essentials lacking in a rice diet.

The

report case

for Angust showed that during the month 133 new cases had been dealt wit involving 335 children, and at the end of the month there were 953 (Continued on Back Page.)

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she will leave for Koepang arriv-Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, ing there the following day the Gambia, Gibraltar,' 'the Gil- Three days later she will depart bertand Ellice Isfands, the Gold for Chilathap. Jays, where she Coast, Hong Kong, Jamaica and de- ell arrive on November 16. After pendencies, Kenya, Uganda, and a stay of two days she la expected Tanganyika Territory, the Leeward to arrive at Benkulen, Sumatra, Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria. on November 20.

Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, St. On the following day. HMS. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,

Protectorate, Folkestone will make for Padang Somaland

Emma Haven),' Surnatre. where. Straits Settlements, Trinidad, and after a five days stay, she will the Windward Islands.

The stamps will be printed by leave for Sabang.

After leaving this port she will the recess process, except in the arrive at Belawin Deli on Decem- case of the Gold Coast, which will ber &

continue to use the photogravure "Leaving on December 14. the process adopted in 1928, and ex- sloop will return to Singapore, ar-cept possibly in the case of Aden. riving on December 16. On De- cember 28, she will leave for Hong Korg arriving here on January 4.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON.

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T.T. ON NEW YORK: 31.1/16.

NO EPIDEMIC

OF TYPHOID

Slight Increase Admitted

"No Cause For Alarm"- Official

"There is not the slightest Justification to describe it as an epidemic" said a Government official in answer to a query by a "Daily Press" representative yesterday, regarding the prevalence of typhold in Health returns submitted by the authorities for daily publication.

The cause of typhoid in the Colony was mainly due to the bad hygiénic conditions in which food was prepared and stored, stated our informant, and this state of affairs mathly applied to the poorer classes in Hong Kong,

WHAT FIGURES SHOW "Is there any increase in the number of cases reported?" asked our representative,

Official figures in this respect were as follows: There were 233 cases, reported last year up to and including August, relating to a forms of typhod, while the figures for this year were stated to be 200 an increase of 12 per cent "approximately

2

These figures were by no means a cause for alarm, as typhoid was (Continued on Back Page.)

Per Month, $3.

MILE-A-MINUTE

LUXURY TRAVEL

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS OF "TAIPO BELLE"

LOUNGE CHAIRS AND COCKTAIL

"BAR

(BY OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE).

If you stand about here you'll get a good idea of what a streamlined luxury parlour car looks like Coming down the rail track."

That was said to me yesterday by an official of the Kowloon- Canton Railway organisation with, I hope, the best of intentions."

Well, this is what happened.

I rot as close to the rall, track as I deemed prudent, about a me distant from the Kowloon station. I heard singing sound creeping along the shimmering lines, getting deeper and deeper.

Then, like a silver bullet, something streaked with blue just hurtled through space.

"That's the Taipo Belle" casually remarked the official..

casualness. "That was I commented with asstmed

"The Taipo Belle" photographed on the track yesterday.

A few minutes later I was chat- ting with the General Manager, of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, Mr. R. D. Walker, and the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Mr. J. Smith, A.MIME, in the parlour section

MANILA GOLD SHARES of this luxury rail coach

Local Dealings

Buyers

Antamoks, $5.40. Consol, Mines. 10 cts. San Mauricio. $4.45. Santa Rosa, 181 cts.

Sellers

Mambulan...79 cts. Benguet Explor.. 50 ct Demonstrations. $1.48. Suyoc Consol.. $1.26.

Atoks, $1.17.

Sales

Baguio Gold, 60 cta. Benguet Explor., 48 eta. Big Wedge. 83 cts. Consol Mines. 10-11 cts. Demonstrations, $1,48, Mambulan, 80 cts. San Mauricio, $4.48. Santa Rosa. 17 cts. Suyoc Consol., $1.22/1.28. United Faracale, $2.38. Mother Lode, 85 cts.

(Full quotations on Page 12)

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"We came from. Shum Chun in 28 minutes 58 seconds," declared Mr. Walker, as though he had just ridden the Derby winner.

"Good gracious!" I excialmed, somewhat incredulously. "I didn't

think it would have taken you as long as that!"

!

To which the General Manager and the Chief Mechanical En gincer both said and locked some- thing that was pithy but un- printable.

"I thought this Talpe. Belle' had wings." I diplomatically add- ed-

And so I did

JAPANESE

ECONOMIC

INFLUENCE

IN

WANING SOUTH CHINA

STRIKING STATISTICS

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SLEEK AND SLICK

Without doubt this latest pro- duct of the Hong Kong workshops of this railway organisation, is one of the sleekest and sickest exam- ples of mechanica elegance that I have ever seen And her inside is às pretty as her outside. Silver and blue outside, and streamlined to the last degree of fashionable. nes; blue, silver, gold, white and softly Nended grey-brown inside the "Taipo Bel" is all that could be desired in luxury transport. <

I sat in chairs that had taken Beveral months to design. Chairs that were as comfortable sitting- up as lo'ling bick, and, if you feel that way, you can have the backs adjusted so that each chair be- came a sleep-inducing couch,

(Continued on Back Page.)

STAGE

STRUCK

JACK" PANTOMIME

Those responsible for the pro- duction of the Christmas. Pan-t tomline at the "Y" are being bombarded with requests from (parents whose children are anxious tg shine before the footlights. The juvenile chorus and leads have Declaring that Britain and not yet been settled, however, so France are taking advantage of there is still time for every young the anti-Japanese movement to hopeful to put his best foot for consolidate their positions in China, ward. Can

and that this means a correspond- The production of the Pan- ing decline in Japanese economic tomime is becoming each year an inDuence, the Shanghai Nippo" increasingly onerous business, but has published an article devoted to in view of the great success of last an outline study of the Japanese year'a venture with Dick Whitting economic positions in South Chington; the committee who will In- showing how these have become troduce Jack to his beanstalk, are weakened in recent years

The article makes no reference to Fukien province, however, where Japanese influence has been stead. Two cases of typhoid and one ly growing through the infltra each of small-pox and diphtheriation of orzęsana. were notified to the local, Health Authorities on Tuesday.

(Continued on Beck Page.)

wing unprecedented efforts to give the public what it wants, and judging from its support of leat Christmas, what it truly deserves

The rehearsals will commerce on Wednesday, October 7, and the dates for production December 1 23 24 and 20