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1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts somewhat me and also Mr. Rock. There we The nows from Tokyo concerning the office, where I am
To-day's Double:-Lipstick and Russo-Japanese negotiations scoms at a stondo ao many papera do all very merry and later we take a Now 1934
to suggest that Japan has decided await my signature; after to the motor coach to the Navy Play-Rouge for the Miss Stakes.
☐ ☐ "VAUXHALL LIGHT SIX" that discretion is the better part of Clubbe for a glass of Holland house where we see "The Ten
Local optimiste are valour, Many people have been waters with Creed who tells me Minutes Allbi" which In my judge- Home Delivery At Hongkong Landed Prices
talking openly for months about the his mind upon the Races. But Iment they do play even better about a Avo-shilling dollar. This
a is all the same to US, war-due to break out in May, as doubt it is too early to settle upon this night than before. And "STANDARD SALOON" £210
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moneys. Later to the Valley than before. So back to To the motorist going on Home Vladivostock-between Japan and leave special arrangements are Russia as a result of Japanese ng-where I do play at Krickett but Hostelry, where I tread a mansure delivery Ingression on the Asiatic mainland. somewhat indifferently, but after or two, and with much good cheer extended....for.
at Home As such a conflagration was bound much merriment at the Clubbe of all to our homes. And so to bed. London....for use
21st-Much thronged In my whilst on furlough and for sub- to spread until it became a devas- the King's Servanta where amid sequent shipment to Hongkong tating world war, the prospects of
much pleasant discourge we dooffice the pressure of work being at the above prices.
an agreement will be received with speak of the Champlons Sweep very great. But I had leisure to relief all round, although one of the stakes, and I do tell the company, find eight other gentlemen to see what we shall see. worst features of the situation has for a frolique, that for ninety adventure with me in the Champ- been the equanimity with which the floring one may obtain ten billets fons sweepstakes again. And prospects of a war has been viewed
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CIVIL LIBERTY
in civilian circles. Those who dis-
Speaking about bowls, the sca~ son for porridge to nearly over.
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Fashion experts prodlet more than usually diaphanous gowns for this summer. Well, we shall
Which reminds us that it will
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in the Sweep-which Indeed be from these billets I do hope to soon be a case of the surf bored! very truth an inorcover all is draw some profit. Yet I would Ilke Japanca policy hoped that approbated by the Captain of the fain ace the sweep to be more Soviet Russia would teach hor a
If the League of Nations has its lesson. Those who disliked BolsheCity Watch. And so we do make supported, though I doubt not it
mis venture, I and Mr. Tom, Mr. shall profit much in these last few way, it'll be à case of puct up your vism wished both of them
week of troubles. fortune. This was short-sighted Broken, and six others, and share days it wants nigh a refusal to see that the Far East ten billets. Then merrily to the the race and I trust the prize
The visit of the "Hello Hong- has become the home of the balance Clubbo where a glans or two, and shall be large. But I am at a of power tradition and that a colli-
so to dinner and after to the "Ten stonde to know how it may be law-kong" revue party reminds us that more
it's becoming increasingly dificult sion was bound to becomo
run perllin Minutes Alibi," where in the new ful for other Clubbes to for a chorus girl to be vaccinated generalised. There was the situation for all and it is a Playhouse in the Naval Canteen Sweepstakes upon Races, when the where it doesn't show. matter for congratulation if it has the Dramafique Company presents Jockey Clubbe be at charges for
been overcome.
CAUSE FOR FEAR
a most excellent show. And to my the whole matter, both prizes, and surprise, 1 do find it most conven- indeed
all outgoings.
And if The only time some of our young lently situate, being beyond the such be allowed, I am of opinion blooda respect old age is when it's
in a bottle. King's Dockyard, turning by that the outsiders should pay a Arsenal Street and so to the ten per centum royalty to the water's edge where we turn to the Jockey Clubbe. But of these B right. There a pleasant company billets I have no sure knowledge and a mighty good play, and after 110 nor anyone else save home to the Clubbe and so to bed. favoured few,
18th. Lord's Day. This day 1
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musical
matters,
Talking of doctors have to laten to a lot of
organ recitals.
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Japanese tactics have been un- doubtedly sufficiently reprehensible to cause alarm to any country which has the misfortune to be her immediate neighbour. She has been in a sufflelently dangerous mood to commit any reckless folly. have realised the Impossibility of
and whistles in the of Russian spien. waging a successful war against a
hours or more of the night with Harbour, there being a very dense large and powerful State from a bage which is situated in a territory one who knew my haunts some five fogge, though as I learn later a overwhelmingly hostile to Japanese and twenty years gone. Later to very low-lying one and to be seen It says much for the sound-oves is the case in Manchuria. the Barre where I am much shock-over from the upper works of big motorists is that they never neem Ramona & Her Grand Piano ness and stability of Britain's Only with the active co-operationed to hear of the death of the King shippes. And this day my Lord to know what they're driving at.
the Chinese people could political conceptions that at a of
with of the Belgians. To tea at Deep of Cadogan, who is the King's time when so many nations are Japan hope to wage
That, Water Bay where Mr. Franco High Minister to China, is due to Any possibility of auccess.
Is why she has been drives me. But Lord! I do grow arrive at this Port, and a grent| proven that the man who cannot dominated by autocratic rule, of course, she should continue to cling seeking to conclude a treaty with somewhat melancholique to meet feast at the nuncheon hour is meet his creditors acidom wants to.
China. Recent events tenaciously to the vital prin- country have shown that quch a a pretty Lady whom I did last see arranged. But Lord! so thick is ciples on which civil liberty treaty with Japan still in virtual when she was but four years of the fogge, his shippe comes not
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According to a news item, twin nge, And 1 perceive that I do into harbour until later and so grow old apace, though in my own they are choused of their nun-ried twin brothers have both given sisters in Czecho-Slovakia who mar- rests. The British ideal, as Sir possession John Simon has just pointed out, Chinese territory could not meet
with support.
mind I feel it not to be so. To cheong-which is indeed a sorry birth to twins. This is altogether is to interfere as little as
the Peake Clubbe where I do take business. And yet. I do perceive two-two! possible with freedom of speech,
out Home Volumes from the
that there be certain advantages the freedom of the Press, and THE OLIVE BRANCH
Library and after playing at Con- in a humble position, I not being A contemporary refers to the Parliamentary government. The
against of sufficient rank to suffer this in- Portsmouth "buy-election." Looks consequence is that the British. It is doubtless har inability to trakt with a pretty Lady
And to my greatest convenience. Later, busy in my as if there's an apology due to n satisfactory rapproche two men. secure
Bomebody. my ment with China, together with the possible pleasure we do succeed Chamber ordering people are not subjected to n disciplining process which den- fact that the consolidation of Man-in the rubber, wherein there be Dined in the Clubbe, and so early
☐ back to the to bed.
Then there was the holiday re- task, that has induced the Japanese made. Whence ies them the privilege of self-churin is a sufficiently engrossing three small slams bid but none determination and which takes Government to hold out the olive Clubbe, and, having some dread of 23rd: This day, being the eve sort that was so healthy that they from them the rights of self-branch to Moscow. And it is just a rheum in my head, very early to of the Ences, to the Clabbe for had to shoot the oldest inhabitant
my morning draught, where I find to start a cemetery.. expression. They remain a free as well Russia has been sparing bed. people, ruled by consent and not no-pains to make her people war- minded and the speeches of M.
19th-Up pretty betimes and Mr.-Seeds-and many others and by force. This does not, of Stalin, M. Kaganovitch and General am overjoyed to find that my we fall to talking of this and that
It's hard lines that the Races Red rheum is somewhat in abeyance and how of Twenty Billets one course, imply unlicensed per-
Blucher declaring that the
all Busy all day at my Office and later gentleman doth draw some sixteen should come round just when the Army is fully prepared for
Colony is making up its mind to sonal liberty. That way sheer emergencies were far from at- to the Clubbe where much talk horses, which do indeed be anarchy lies. In the common tempts to bluff Japan. The out-with my good friends. But of this stroke of Fortune-yet perhaps fight the depression. interest, restrictions and in- come of a new enterprise by the new venture in Ice House Street I none very good save the Soldier. Japanese militarists, with a dif- am somewhat in doubt as to what Yet I am divided in my mind as to
We understand that the Sone- hibitions, there must be, but inferent type of soldier on the other it may be. Yet that it deals in whether I shall wager upon King's or Gladiator for the liberty-loving nations these are side, would have been highly prob- some measure with gold I am well Warden imposed and respected by com-lematical. It may be, of course, assured. But I am not in high Derby. There comes a story that cutters "Monster" is vaguely sup- that war is merely being postponed, estate and the matter touches me it may be uneasy to find jockeys Posed to be a boar. Probably the mon consent. Temperament
for the Australians, but I cannot artealan species. and not for the nonce. but the respite is valuable
well belleve it. But Lord! when and tradition play a large art lessened tension may allow states-
20th. This afternoon to Kow-one doth consider the Races as a
The "Gay Nineties" come into in the case of the British manship to be brought to bear.
loon to see my gossip, and some whole, I suppose there has never talk there. Then back to people, who have been nartured
the been heretofore so open a Meeting. their own to-night. We hope that Clubbe where I do on my best And I am minded not to wager at local Henry's will not have too
80 to many over the eight! apparrel and so to the Hostelry all. Writing late-and where two pretty Ladies and their besi.
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and politically educated along IN AMERICA lines which concede to all men
the right to their own bellefs so
Meanwhile, the Minister for War long as these do not run can-in Washington has delivered him- self of a sound speech on the size weal. trary to the public
war, of armies and the cause Foreigners visiting 'England are and it is a pity that his sentiments often astounded at the measure are not shared by the Navy Depart- of freedom permitted. in such ment, where huge schemes for new building are being rushed through places as Hyde Park, where as fast as can be managed. Super- exponents of almost every shade ficlal talk of treaty rights is used
and it is impossible to get tho
of opinion can be found airing to justify the enormous expenditure their views without let or hind- | "Big Navy" school on to any other rance, But the latitude here | line.
shown rests on the belief that
it is far better to provide a vent NAVAL RACE
for the letting off of rhetorical
steam than it is to attempt to
If, however, the purpose of the suppress the free expression of American construction programme opinion. Britain's Hyde Parks is to check the imperialistic anibl- are her safety-valves. What lons of Japan" then the United States is getting into very deep Bulls one nation, might not suit water indeed. It is openly inviting another, admittedly. Theren naval race, and the only con- must be the appropriate back-sequences of such a struggie are world unarchy. Moreover, the af ground, the appropriate tradi- feet on the international situation tion, before anything like a fall of America's naval Increase in the measure of freedom can with past year has been altogether bad. safety be permitted. It is a That is something to weigh in the Defensible on treaty happy circumstance that in balance. these restless days Britain gives grounds though American building no sign of departing from those is, the strongest naval advocates cannot deny that It has done harm principles on which her political in American-Japances and Ameri- system has been so laboriously can-British relations. This is not built up. Fascists and extreme an argument, it is a fact. It is Socialists may envisage diétator-easy enough for Congress to vote ships in the days ahead, but the Vinson Bill, on the grounds against them can be placed the that things look bad in the world determination of the great mass and America is entitled by treaty of the people to uphold and to the authorized strength. But will naval building make things preserve unimpaired the great any better? To the contrary, it is heritage of a freedom-loving more likely to make things demon- nation.
strably worse.
papers.
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"Good looks will never get a girl promotion in business," maintains a beauty queen. Unless of course, thero in II susceptible junior partne".
"Fire in Gramophone Factory." Another example of hot music.
0 O Whist-drives are to be held in # disused elñema in London. Just the place for holding hands.
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a fight, Fighting for a train takes
it out of one, too,
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Horticulture is taught in mANY American prisons. Wall-climbing plants, of course, "are" strictly taboo.