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DISARMAMENT CLOUDS
It will indeed be a sad reflec- tion on civilisation if, as seems only too likely, the Disarmament Conference fails to achieve any- thing like a general and all- embracive agreement. Britain
is that the most that can be
NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS
SILVER LEGISLATION
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May 11th-Up very betimes, aware is that the Boy doth tell America's Silver Senatore are and to my office, where I do order me that my Dairy Farm kipper
From the Office Butts sufficiently content with the legis my papers, and so am busy all doth await me, and having alopt. lation that is to be presented today until five of the clock. Then mighty sound I do break my fast you can't see that nudist Alm-t
No need to be disappointed i Congress with the Presidential. blessing to suggest that they have to a preview of a film, and anon thereon heartily. Reading in the bathing season has just begur obtained more than they expected. comes a pretty Lady to assist mo, news-shcotes, I sco that the Amer- Actually It carries the situation whom I did ask both for the icans, as usual, do off the small-
口 口 little further practically. A policy pleasure, of her company and that clothes from the British Amateurs will be proclaimed and made man I may obtain a judgment upon the in the Walker Cuppe, and lose bat datory, but the process of imple menting the statement of polley picture from a woman's point of two matches. And I make no will be loft to the President's dis view. And indeed, for all think the doubt that it is because cretion. The battle will probably Ignorant may say, it is most xare Americans do work at the game, switch from the Capitol to the to cut a feature picture, though it while we do play at it. And I White House, with the silver bloc may be that one in a thousand may would not have it otherwise, but, endeavouring to hasten direct be banned altogether. Dined at If we do loudly proclaim that we un action.. Ono objection to scheme has been met by the pro- the posal to impose a tax of fifty per cent. on silver speculation re turns, but even with this, there aro
large profits to lie
Le made if the drive succeeds in its objective. The present price of silver in 46 cents an ounce and if speculators obtain only half the difference be- tween that and 81.20 an ounce they will feel adequately rewarded for their perspicacity!
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a gate in Kowloon Tong, Seventh Heaven, where I for the should not enter into International to summon. the Clubbe, and later to visit at de but play Golfe as a game, we then the pollee won't know who first time do meet with Mistress competitions at it. But in Ann, for whom I do conceive a case it seemeth that the strong affectioun. But, she did farce, and might ignore me, being, as I thought, dropped. At Lord's, the Marylo- somewhat sleepy. Thenco to the bone Clubbe do woll against the Hostelry for a glass of wine, and Australians to my greatest pos- thereafter much pleasant talk. sible pleasure, and Patsy Hendren And so back to the Clubbe, and, makes a century and ls, as I do after a flaggon of ale, to bed, rerit paliers as worthy to play - Galantista nivčana, ta, haye dla
my Ar. R. Wyatt gets some seventy covered n nicotine-free tobacco. busluess be suitably ordered, did walk to the Clubbe for my think that he will captain Eng-keep the smoke out of our eyes.
odd notches, and I incline to Now they should and a way to morning draught, but am mighty Innd, as we can in no way afford to Il-pleased that rain de fall, and play a pasonger. This day also
12th. This day,
after
I no cloke with me. There I da comes news that the Dunbar pony,
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Mr. John Grey's defense of Lan-meet Mr. Povey, Mr. Share, and Princess Angeline, has been shot, cashire and its technical efficiency Creed, and we fall to talking of the mare going lame, without hope vegetables as good as spinach. was a trifle atrained. And is, of the Silver question, which, as of recovery, after her morning But that's begging the question. course, bolied by the facts. Tho suppose, is the most debated and gallop. And I am very sorry Just how good is spinach ? wide disparity between Japanese the most unprofitable subject in both for hor, and her owner, and
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and Lancashire prices, could not the Far East. Mr. Povoy tela also for myself, who had exist if labour costa were the only that there is a move afoot to pay factor. Articles published in The war debts in silver, and that therevered to back her in the firm Times recently have shown the true shall surely be legislation in three figure dividend.
hope that she would yet net me a A Philadelphia man without a state of affairs. There is nothing Amerique; but to my mind, as I bathed and trimmed myself, to to two women, when his first Having job found himself legally married loft for Lancashire but a complete tell him pretty roundly, the only Seventh Heaven, to pay my duty divorce was reorganisation of the Jadustry, a thing that shall profit us In process which has be too long Hongkong shall be a fixed dollar. think, did seem to cast a more has a job he didn't look for.
to Mistress Ann, who, as I diď delayed already, with disastroun Yet I am not so foolish as the results for all concerned. Either many folk, who, seeing this clear, heretofore, but there were others favourable eye upon me than
口 The industry flaelf must bring
do cry out upon the Government
The Soviet Embassy in Washing- pressure to bear upon the mills that they do not so fix it, as if it present, and we had but little that have been holding up reorgan-were but to say "Let the dollar be nuncheon with Mr. Muleygrubbs shades of red. Isn't that rubbing speech. Thereafter, to tako my ton has rugs that contain twenty sation or the State muat intervene. a shilling, and it should be ♫ Britain cannot afford to look on shilling. For I do admit that I and his Lady, and he tells me that idly while the industry commite know not how it should be done, one of the Hunt puppies is sick, It in a bit too much? hara-kiri for the sake of the per- being no financier, and I am not I ask him of his gifte to the City at which he is somewhat troubled. called rugged individuallam and be done, despite certain opinion stabled to his satisfactioun, which a tetegraph company in the States petuation of what is sometimes fully assured that the thing can Train-Bands, and if it is now The N.R.A. may be all right, but sometimes pig-headedness.
astre parties, who do give their do gather is so. And some day says it's been operating à code ever tongues too much exercise. Creed I must go and see the grooming of
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tells us that all is in train to do it. Back to the Clubbe, where since Morse discovered it way back away with the Parque of Pirate did close my eyes for a space, and in 1837. motor coaches upon Chater Road then busy writing in my Diary.
by degrees. But I trust that at- Dined early, and so to bed.
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N.R.A. FOR BRITAIN?
That there are powerful interests has been striving to the utmost working in the right direction is other stand shall be provided for 14th-Reading in the newes In a recent contest, school boys of her powers to find some com- Parliament, virtually providing for to tell my friends of the Citsheets this day, I do learn that the and girls voted Mae West and
shown the Bill
by
now before them, and I must take occasion mon ground on which all the State-imposed wages code the convenience to the poor, who can ing, and hereafter, if there be no decide whether that's a-slam for
do amend Jockey Clubbe
the Mickey Mouse equal im favour- Watch tha It
that these cara be a great method of the daily double wager-ites. Now Powers might come to terms, docs not go quite so far as
the producers can't N.R.A.. in the United States, but not afford a car. For this, In- and it is clear that she will per- it may easily be the forerunner deed, they may praetermit to note, the pool shall be carried forward Mac or a boost for Mickey.
wager upon the second winner, sist to the very end in her of a somewhat similar organisa- før, 03 It seems to me, where is to the next Race Day, less per- efforts, The general view now tion. As in America, the wage an official of the City Watch, there contage and refunds. And I do
agreements are to be concluded be-ia nt least an Austin assembled most heartily approve their action, Baseball, fve read, is in a bad way tween employers and employed together. Later, after nuncheon, expected is a European agree From that stage, observance of to the Yacht Clubbe with Mr. refunds mayKnow not what these in Shanghai. They still have their ment to outlaw bombing from the agreements is to be watched Rush and Mr. Jake. And there seem to me, if I do back in a
may bo. For, as it doth strikes, however. the air, and to abolish large over by a Board appointed by the for the first time I do play in a doubic, and choose my aggressive
the Minister of Labour. This is re- league match at Lawn Bowles horse amiss, even though my first weapons. On former point, there is a hint volutionary for Britain and it is At first, upon our rink, things go be right, yet have I lost all. Vory Kowloon residents are complain- that a scheme of sanctions may not insignificant that the project not so well, but later Mr. Strange be sought to cover the case of cotton industry itself. If the sys-game, and, as our number one Works until nigh five of the clock, the early morning Noisy parkers! was submitted by leaders of the and Mr. Whant do find their busy at the office, so that I do noting at the disturbance created by hear of the disastre at the Gasse motorists garaging their cars in any country breaking its pledge tem works without friction, exten-plays with the greatest possible but one thing I do know right to refrain from aerial warfare.sion to other industries is likely, skill my. own ill-success But the point cannot be lost
covered, and so at tea-time we are no explosion in the right and pro- well, and that is that thero was sight of that even if some form
level. But Lord! 1 do eat three per sense of the word, else had vegetarian who went off his nut. Then there was the case of the of agreement is reached on these IRON AND STEEL
pieces of cake and -a doughnut, I, and all the town heard it. But heads, as well as in regard to
and thereafter do get the weight of the truth we shall no doubt the banning of bacteriological The announcement that the iron better; and, when I do my share,
know more upon inqufaltioun, and chemical warfare, the main and steel duties temporarily im- we do go beyond them, albeit with
A reader says he finds it hard to objective will remain unfulfilled, posed some twelve months ago are some good fortune, and so end though many foolish rumours do
run about. Later with Mr. meet expenaca.. We seem to meet to continue indefinitely marks several shottes up. Thus The upshot will inevitably be at Government's approval of the Clubbe doth win the match, which do consider it to be as horrid a
Franco to view the scene, and i them wherever we go. resumption of competitive arm-trade reform scheme recently ap doubt not will confound the one as ever I saw, save only the ing, a new race in armaments, proved by the Iron and Steel Criticke, who, before the event, Race-Course Fire, at the which I which must, if pursued un Federation. Here again can be did hold.
Only the better-class people can checked, seriously endanger the found indications of the regimen- Home, and after I had ordered was not only present, but did oven afford to go cruising, anys a writer.
come by my some trifling injury: The ocean "gwells." peace of the world. When we tation of industry in Britain, up- my garments, to the Barre, where But Lord! upon that day, nigh come to consider the situation in prouching the problem by different much good company. And so to seven hundred people were burned all its aspects, it is perfectly United States, hut ultimately alm-
paths
from those used in the bed. clear, as Mr. Antony Eden de-
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A bachelor lecturer says women. hvili become the ruling sex before
clared some months ago, that iron and steel reform plan em- the first thing of which I
accure
the chief difficulty of the braees the needful aims of con- Disarmament Conference is one centrating and perfecting produc which has haunted international tion and of organised marketing. politics ever since the war. Only an export can say if it is That problem has been how to ticiently watertight to
the reconcile the French demand for
accomplishment of these objectives. security with the German de- mand for equality. The British Draft Convention, admittedly THE TUNG WAH AND OTHERS not perfect, was an honest and sincere attempt to save the Con- Once again there comes a report ference from destruction; with- of a refusal by a local hospital to out it, the Conference would admit the victim of an accident | long ago have drifted to disaster, because of failure to comply with All the way through, Britain has certain formalities, because "the shown a willingness to consider Proper procedure" had not been any reasonable amendment of the G.C.II. and was never satis- followed. The first case involved her plan, but, unhappily, her factorily cleared up. The latest efforts have not met with the accuses the Tung Wah Hospital, response expected. There is no which has not yet ventured any re- shadow of doubt that opinion in ply to the complaint. There was Britain, irrespective of party, is also another incident, not made solidly united in favour of peace of a rather different type, but pre- public, concerning the Kwong Wah, and disarmament by inter-senting equally serious possibili national agreement, and if this tiesin fact, the would-be patient ideal cannot be attained it will subsequently
died.
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ther not be for want of trying on the hospital has not escaped criticism part of the British Government. for apparently worrying morn The alternative is unrestricted informed of an accident than about
about
have been all-round re-armament, which, if the condition of the victim.
The permitted, will amount to a de- interont of the police in accidents claration of the bankruptcy of appears to be at the root of the world statesmanship. For the whole trouble. It should not be sake of humanity, and the non-necessary to me that had-taye botrayal of those who gave their
wards should have lives in the Grent War, it is to be no acquaintance,
hospital's hoped that even at this late duty is to care for the sick and stage there will be a supreme whether the polleo require evid- the injured, not to worry about effort made to save the Con-ence to fix responsibility or make ference from abject fallure." roports to their superiore.
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"Don't rush them. He will leave a tip if he sells that policy."
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Music may have soothing effects, but, all the game, lots of people attribute years of mental anguish to Mendelssohn's Wedding March..
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We hear of a man who went to Deep Water Bay for a spot of golf and spent the afternoon garden- ing, bird-nesting and wading.
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"Make it snappy!" Don't forgat the Telegraph amateur photo com- petition.
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"Britain's Flying Premier,”* Yes, some of his critics say ho simply. won't come down to earth.
Firat i was suggested that Britain pay her war debt in silver.. Then somebody thought of tin. Why not wipe it out with inks erasers?
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A man was Aned this week for destroying evidence by breaking n bottle of wine. We know, a far: botter way than that.
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Iron and steel aro referred to as.
sound British Industry, Especially when the hammering
boring.
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