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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS
ARMS AND THE CHACO
When a little while ago an prins embargo on Bolivia and Paraguay was eloquently urged upon members of the League of Nations by Mr. Anthony Eden, he blamed the trek of United States co-operation for failure to secure a speedy agree ment. Since then, Cong
Congress bar authorised the embargo and with- out waiting for similar action by other countries. President Roone.
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June 16th.-Rending this day Injable. Reading in the life of King the newes sheets I flud that the Edward the Seventh, and later Chief Censor has banned the over to Kowloon, where I do drink morning draught with Mr. Nudist film, which, to my mind. Muleygrabe and his lady, both of is a very good thing. For it would whom do seem to me to be some scem that the more ill-favoured what sleepy. But he is right and ill-shaped a person is, the about his house, for I do find St more he doth rant about this dis ber. Yet how it shall prove with
cooler
at present than my Cham- Kusting business. For, as I sup- a South-west wind I am not eyre. pose, in every hundred men orite tells me that England doth los
(children being the Wightman Cup, but this With what always ex there would provos in no way strange. Back
barely be found one to look come. inte to the Clubbe for my nah
cheon, after which I do read and write in my Chamber, and so to bed.
velt has prohibited exports of munt- tions from Amerien to the Gran Chaco belligerents.
result? Italy is now invested with responsibility, having refused to apply an embargo unless Japan, which is buying munitions and not selling them, and which Is not n member of the League, indulges in the formality of signing a convou tion. More and more men are be ing then into the laughter while the issue is thus being futilely played with. What is stil more deplorable in that Britain can- not play it the American way, hir. Eden promises to give Britain's unless everybody else agrees to take arms manufacturers a free hand their fingers out of the pie.
A DUTY ?.
Hongkong Telegraph. duty.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934.
men
hundred
is in the nude. Moreover, I am in doubt of the hygienie value of this craze, seeing that too much sun light is an irritant poison. Yet, If one must need sun-bathe, there are in the New Territories not a fow spots where it can be done In privacy. But the essence of the matter seems to be publicity, After ordering my papers, I go to the Clubbe, where Mr. Povy tells me that Sir C. Clementi doth resign his Governourship from ill- health. He was a great gentleman and a polished scholar, and I am in doubt if any of the fleas upon his back In later daya had one moiety of his ability. Yet I am minded that he would have been a more successful Governor in the old days, before pipsqueak pol- iticians, scarce venturing beyond the boundaries of their local pari- shes, did lamper and hinder men who had both the knowledge and the courage. I read also
that Hitler meets Mussolini, but I am minded that he would do better to mind his moratorium.
hot
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The heavy rnina transformed Happy Valley into a lake yester day. This must have overjoyed the punters,
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The water restrictions have at last been removed. Aqua Boyl
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Government, everybody appears to Whilst nobody seems to love the be anxious to lend it money.
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This discussion on the status of our port leaves us with a distinct
one-way
18th.-Much shocked when reading in the news sheete this day to learn that my old friend, Mr. L. Reed, hath met with an accident, and I trust he may take bias. In favour of free beer, no serious harm of it. And this it would acum doth give some force
D D· to the theory of dimming, his A resident thinks driver being as it seems dazzled by the lights of another car. But be, strangely enough, is not hurt. Having finished ordering papers, to the valley where I do play at a pair match at bowles, But Lord! The Rink was set at a right angle to the common way,
The only way we can think of and the thing is but a joke, the
to make a $10 noto go far as it forehand from one ond taking but two inches of draw. Loat our used to, is to post it to the sante match.
.
streets are the only way in which to solve Hongkong's traffle pro- In other words, there are my blem.
no two ways about it. .
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address.
19th-This morning I learn of the piracy of the Shuntien which is as naughty a thing na possible
"Not on your life!" as the in- and i do trust that an enquiry be surance agent said to the lion- held tato the matter as to what tamer who wanted to take out a
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precautions had been taken policy. against piracy. And in this case of piracy upon a passenger ship, the pirates do kidnap Europeans, But why it is that in all these
"Silver Policy Not Clear," reads cases tho' the ships do carry wire.a nowspaper headline. It's ni less, no warning is ever sent off, I ways been as clear as mud to us. know not. And I am minded that the operator should be locked in an armoured conning tower no that he might have time to get off at least one appeal for help before the pirates do cut the serial.
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It is a wretched business. Men have found peace in the midst of battle. They have shut their ears to the guns and their eyes to the slaughter long enough to speak within themselves the conviction that they were doing their duty. A small enough reward for all the mud and blood they tasted. But even such recompenas seems now denied The
who fight
the world's wars, it is becoming less
16th-Up betimes, but the night and less possible-s exposur was very hot, the wind seeming follows exposure of the world-wide
to have something of North in it, arms racket for men to imagine, and an enters not my chamber much less he certain, that killing
window as it is wont to do in sum- of other men can be considered a
mer. This day I do leave my office Roports on the business
somewhat early, and so to Kow- which arms makers have drummed loon where I do visit the sick, un 31 South America since the And so, back to the Clubbe, where Chaco hostilities began have been
I do tako nuncheon with severe blow to the average Mr. the
A million rats were caught in weather; Muley citizen's sense of duty and patriot. grubs. whom I have
not
Hongkong last year. We, should A NEW SPIRIT
ism. Forty thousand men have seen those several days. And he
hate the job of counting them. lost their lives in the
Bolivian- tells me that in Kowloon his house
20th. It seems that the un widespread Paraguayan squabble, while their most cool, so that he need not fortunate lady in the Hostelry did
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question as to what is at stake hus sleep upon his roof, as is his take her own life, and I am sorry that all the foreign passengers remained vague.
Yesterday's weather should But business custom during the hot weather for her and her relatives. Talk- have given the rala birds some- taken as hostages in the Shun-men in so-called enlightened coun- which doth confirm my opiniouning with Mr. Pavy the other day thing to squawk about." tien piracy have been freed. supply both sides with the means trics have lost few opportunities to
that my Chamber doth suffer from at the Clubbe I do remember that Hopes now centre on the relens- of continuing the warfare.
the unusual set of the wind. Yet I am somewhat comforted to find he said he believed that more wo ing of the other victims and the
men did take their that my Landlord hath minished
life in the eventual rounding up and pun-
my real by forty florins a month of the year. But whether this bo Spring than at any other time ishment of the pirates them-
which showeth me that, contrary true or not I know not. I learn selves. In characteristic
to my former opinioun, he hath that Mr. P. Chasidy has addressed ner, the Daily Mail has been
bowells of compassion. And the Rotarians upon House Plan- adumbrating on this piracy ques-
honest posset save that it might friend, Mr. E. Hamilton, de nak would fain purchase him anning, and later meeting my old brown." tion. of the difficulties of dealing
be injurious to then Bowled at him if he will address the Rotar with which it can have little
the Valley, and, though my rink inns later upon the method of real comprehension, and con-
did a little better, we did lose the running a the uninformed the
match. voys to
mercantile business. Yet I do think that, if it But his reply I will not set down, the female which does the wooing." "Among frogs," we read, "It is impression that the evil
be disturbed not, we have the not even in this most accret diary. With those creatures, of course, is as pronounced to-day as
luck, it will be strange if we do makings of a good rink, und, with ever it was, Actually, although it is far from suppressed, there
not well for the major part Back to the Clubbe, where I do bathe has in recent years been a dis- tinct decline in the number of
Sh W. Shenton's letter to Mr. S. things prove not as easy as_in_the_ and after dinner fall to reading presses for some action. But "Wicketkeeping is a science," outrages, a circumstance largely
Dodwell In the evening newes days before our whole cause was due, it must be admitted, to the
Mr. D's proposal calls for very seems we do pretty well, the Eagle sheete. And I hold it true that gladstoned at Hankow. Yet it special precautions taken. It is
man-
ARMS RACKET
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The Chaco struggle has been can- impartial and disinterested obser demned by many authoritative, vers, including the Leage of Nations, as a hopeless and. futile struggle in which neither side can win. The Chaco is an uninviting territory, and the physical hard- ships being endured by soldiers bayonets and bullets. One question there
are from other causes besides that has puzzled the rest of the world is what interest worthy of such sacrifice of human life either belligerent can have in the Chaco. What will the verdict on the dia will it, be found that thousands pute be sixteen years from now?
died
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, Why do you laugh and clown? "I've mizzled and broiled, I've peeled and I've ofled--
"Now I'm turning a beautiful
21st. It seems the Daily Mail every year is leap year, newes sheete hath taken much in- tereat in this new piracy and
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says a sports writer. Bye-ology 7.
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only fair to add, however, that for the profits of a few? That careful inquiry, and a great dealer this day comes newяa that who sent her young nephew a copy
TECHNOCRACY IN BRITAIN
*** A famous R.A, declares that art
다
published. It should go down well,
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"What would be your key to happiness if you could get it?" naka correspondent. The key that locks the pinne next door.
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The jury which upset a will giving $50,000 for a Chair at a University may have thought it was too much money for one piece of furniture.
patriots were
and her planes bearing a hand. Then there was Auntie Cyclone, the Chinese authorities have steers who subsidised their coun-
betrayed by the prof of deep thinking. But, as regards evinced an increasing desire to tries' patriotic societies?
the position of the company of the planes have so perturbed the of "Tom Bowling," because she co-operate in measures both of "national honour was a good ad- hold that its position calls rather European captives.
That which Mr. D. is chairman, I do pirates that they release the knew he was 30 keen on cricket.
But I would ! preventive and punitive Vertising slogan? And that arms character. This brings us to a
men still find it profitable and not
for a great deal of deen drinking. that the matter were continued point which is apt to be over the making of peace?
too difficult to wreck efforts toward
And one might do far worse, for until all captives were saved-and it is a good ale, and light in the all the pirates hanged at their looked, but which has been
summer weather. Drank a dag villages, which
is fighting for its very existencé. should then be brought into emphasis by three
gon of the same, and so to bed. razed to the ground. For even the Wo're noticed that the majority of recent occurrences-the Kura-
trifle that was done at Fan Wo pictures have their backs to the mote affair, the Ingram murder;
17th. (Lord's Day.)-As usual, Kwong hath greatly. bettered the wall. Lord Trent, chairman of the lay late, but abaut nine of the matter down in the southern parts. and the Shuntien piracy-name-largest firm of retail chemists in clock did struggle pretty manfully Writing this night in my Chamber, ly, the promptitude with which Great Britain, has announced that with a kipper, which I did find while the rain falls very heavily. A book on diving has just been the Chinese authorities now time to five days a week, without
they propose to reduce working mighty well tried, and very palat- And so to bed. act in such occurrences. In the reducing pay. The experiment re Kuramoto incident, the mystery presents an attempt to make in- was solved as the direct result creased use of the machine us an of requests broadcast by the ally of the worker instead of as ari Chinese police for information enemy. Unlike the method com- regarding the missing man's of Heary Ford, which by improve- monly associated with the name movements, while in regard to the Ingram murder, despite the
ment of muelinery makes high Wages difficulties of tracking down the as possible, but depends upon
a constantly, expanding market. murderers, an intensive search experiment of Lord Trent's firm the was immediately carried out turns the labour-saving into shorter and four arrests made. So far
hours instead of reduced numbers as the Shuntien piracy is con- effected by the machine
oof workers. Thus the Kaving cerned, the predominant feature applied to paying fuil wages for the may be of the rescues is undoubtedly shorter working week rather than the line work of the Britishcut prices for the products. If nif Navy, but the point should goes according to plan, the economy not be overlooked that the feeted by the machine will be used Chinese authorities quickly and directly for the advantage of the willingly co-operated in ef
industrial worker, forts ashore and afloat to trace the captives. The three instances cited may not have resulted
The possible snag lies in the fact in
spectacular that less enlightened firms may re- achievements on the part of fuse to adopt the same methods, Chinese officialdom, but they They may use mechanical advant bave certainly demonstrated ages, not to improve the position of new and refreshing spirit of competitors. So the leas enlighten- their employees but to underell determination to do all that ised may force the hand of the possible when untoward events enlightened, with the result that ve Occur, and, what is more, to act may be back where we were before quicidy. This is in sharp con- the old chaos, with consuming trast with the attitude adopted power lagging behind productive in other days, when plenty of tower. The remedy len either In promises were made. but little, good will lending to agreement, or if any, action taken. Admitted-in some measure of compulsion. ly, effective preventive measures it would not be contrary to tradi Lord Trent suggests legislation and would be even better still. It is, Lion in Great Britain, where so howover, certainly n
distinct many gain that this new spirit of restricting hours of labour, regulat- aota have been passed anxioty to do the right thing is ing hours of opening for shops, and so markedly in evidence to-day. modifying conditions in factories.
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