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· SCHMIDT.---On December 29th, 1934, to Mir, and Mrs. R. Schmidt, a son.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1934.
HONGKONG'S AERIAL
FUTURE
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS
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Dec. 21st-This day up very garden, the weather being mighty, The Skeleton in the Cupboard :---. With the appproach of the New betimes and most busy at my office fair. Later to Mr. Franco where Tuesday's turkey.' Year there has been a growing where I doc clear off certayne out-I eate a tomato or two, he having standing matters, and take my some very fine frultes, and also, demand for allver fa Shanghal, and nuncheon in my room there. But it may be, I drink a few glasses of the nuthorities now admit that the' I do conxe a Chinese kitten Hollands waters. Up to Sir R. there is a shortage of the metal. these three weeks with roasted Harpenden's chambers where we
pastry we sampled, New Year It will probably be necessary for mente, he is still an shye as ever. cat our nuncheon very pleasantly. Resolutions are likely to be broken, China to buy silver. At the time and will come no nearer than two and after, home, and sitting in my
= 口 fecte from me, though he mightily || garden with my wife, reading our of the imposition of the expert apprceintes the good food. Yet bookes and as pleasant an after- There appears to be every An- duties by the Nanking Government, hin brother will not ent of it, noon na ever I
silver This night dication that 1935 will have speat. the intention being to prevent the which is a wonder to mod seeing to dine with friends, where woning. China dollar rising in sympathy that I have never heretofore known mecte most plenannt folk, and after with world silver prices, the danger cat that refuses beefe, even if playing at charades and singing.
It be cooked. Yet it is pretty good all of us being very merry. of a market reaction of a still more mente, for I do eut a plenty my-
The New Year with lots of drastic nature was indicated by self at my nuncheon. Later to a
Dec, 26th.—Thin day lay very people will dawn да Nineteen- observers. It appeared to preview of n picture and so home inte, my junior partner. ordering Thirsty-Five! them that, if Chins prevented the to dinner where, after writing at the papers at the office, and he dollar rising, kept the dollar's price my drake for some time, I do feel taking his leisure later. Busy in my garden, where I do pluck, a mighty elcepy and so to bed. below that of liver in world
round dozen more of tomatoe The gentleman who phoned us markets, there would be an immense.
Dec. 22nd. Trimmed myself, which do begin to turn attle. on Thursday and insisted that it probably Wednesday will outflow of motal from China, restilt taking a new blade, to my raser And I doc find that to set them in was
the day, and much comforted with the sun by day and thereafter to think that next Tuesday is Mon- ing inevitably in a shortage of that the sharpeness thereof. To my wrappe them each in its little day week, commodity, the backing of the na-office, where I flud little to throng jacket of paper and keep in a
dark tional currency. Such a situation mec, and so to the King's smallo and closed drawer in a cabinet appears to be looming ever wearer.
#hip Herald where to my sorrow doth ripen them to a marvell, if Shanghai are sending a ladies" We are not surprised that Mr. Kung, Augell departed; yet mighty good greene. Then
I do find all but the Number One so bee they bee nut plucked too Interport hockey team. That will
to the Krickett be bully. the Finance Minister, believes the company, and a glosse or two of where I notch the strikers' runs, time has come for China' to buy Hollands, and then to the Clubbe (and all very pleasant with a warm" abrond, nor that there is a short where I do take my nuncheon with sun and good company.
A local hotel resident who re age of dollars in some Shanghai a pretty lady, who is kin to mee, and writing in my diary.
colved in cast of wine for Christ- (though my wife, paor wretch, was banks. It would seem that the over busy to join us, to the great Dec. 27th-Reading this day inmaa, arrived at his room to find attempt to prevent the dollar's rise pleasure of the gossips), and inter the newes sheetes I do learn with his bed filled with the straw bottle was bad strategy, for the silver to the buying of gifts against this much joy that it seems like that coverings, Mum's the word!
there will be no trouble in the that the Chineso Government will Christmasse season. Then to
the Authorities have match at Krickelt but the day be- Saar, for have to have must be bought in a
ing somewhat foule they play not, upon a suddain closed the front- rising market, and the very neces- and I cross bank, and find many
icers so that no gangs of "agents tion by masquerading as the In- It took alty the country faces is apt to younge and pretty Ladies playing) Provocateurs" can come in to get visible man. Even so, still further increase the
at Hockey, which I doe watch at matters at issue. From France, some people quite a while to see
* pour through his diagulse, two hours and more, and am news of a reprieve for mised with one pretty little girl, who did but murder her who is us light of foot as own father for money for a fow she is plumpe of body. But God days' debauch. Of which I doubt forbid that I should say more not there will be much joy in cer- which might identify her, and a tain places in this Colony. Very two worse thing might befalle. Home, busy at my office alt day, and later Christmas
to a meeting of my guild, whence ind dined quietly and so to bed,
home and dined, and so to bed.
coat.
Meanwhile, "cheap" China silver continues to go out into the world, making, a profit for exporters, but exhausting the national supply steadily, and none so slowly. The profit that silver exporters are
making will cont the Chinese Government a pretty penny, for
some day the silver that they send abroad will have to be replaced. But at what Agure?
Dec. 23rd, Cord's Day).-Very busy this day in my garden and das pluck all my tomatoes which doe show signs of A turning colour, being some twenty or thirty in all, and one so big that it did weigh half a pound upon my letter scules. But in
of many
the frutbes there is much amiss in the
TURKS RALLY TO HOMELAND
Home
MOVING FROM ALL PARTS OF EUROPE
Istanbul, Dec. 19. An extensive immigration move
countries into Turkey is going on. A thousand who arrived this week from the Roumanian port of
tension of aerial services to this case was dismissed. But a by-law to swell 'to hys own symmetrickment of Turks from the Balkan!
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We hear of a lady who drank bottles of champagne on Night. Appropriately enough, she fizzled out."
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Apparently some punters sceni to consider the new "wire" system. ut Fanling an unknown Kwantity.
A youthful aspirant, for a joi enquired 'how many office boys work in our building. Hardly any of them.
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The frequent roferences which have been made of late to the EYE OF THE LAW desirability of Hongkong taking its rightful place in the sphere of commercial aviation have at A gentleman at Brentford, ac-form, some being of most curious Icast indicated the existence of a cused of "maliciously wounding" they do cale none the less sweete
and ungainly shapes-though strong feeling that this Colony another man by striking him on the which, as 1 suppose, comes from should not be left behind in plans hund, pleaded that he did so in my lack of care to thin the clus which are maturing for the ex-defence of his wife's honour. There, so as to permit each fruit
part of the world. Hongkong's et Deal-following. a. model pre-shape and start to ripen. Cut my geographical position is such pared, according to the Town Clerk, at
sweet pen bloons, tho 1 st am
We understand that the only that it ought on no account to be by the Ministry of Health-ordains let them bloom too early, or no Costanza declare that 26,000 are thing left, behind by local burglars
stunde to know if I have side-tracked in these develop-
awaiting embarkation there. the other night, was a rouge pot. ments. The main obstacle still that "no person in any street or Yet 4 doe hope for the best. To
They are Turks left behind all They evidently had the decency to to be overcome, apparently, is public place shall fight or provoke the Peake Clubbe for books and
Balkan Europe by the spare milady's blushes,. the reaching of a satisfactory or incite any person or animal to ather a couple of stories of centuries-long receding
mystery which I do find to bee Turkish conquests. They now understanding in respect of fight." Nothing in said here about mighty restful reading. Early to
ace better prospects in rejoining A reader wants to know what mutual flying rights as between any previous provocation. To fight
their blood brethren in the or provoke to fight at all is the
new has happened to Hongkong and China. Of the offence; and in the Deal
the City Hall Dec. 24th.-Very early at the office Turkish Republic under the Ghazi's Library scheme. Merely shelved. Colony's willingness to conclude where two miners had been fight this day which is somewhat foule reforma which they believe has a an agreement on this point there ing, the Bench merely decked with a drizzle of rain, and later big fature and where oppression in cannot be the slightest doubt, which of the two was the aggressor to Whipsnade, where I take my impossible. but so far it has not been found und let the other man go.
The problem of their Install-Some people seem-to-think-that- But nuncheon with my wife, and after possible to evolve a satisfactory which is the right view in the eye to n preview of Home pictures. tion Is beginning to impress the jump. This all depends on the arrangement. Meanwhile, it is of the law? Is the aggressor Home, and Sir R. Harpenden and Ankara government which ex netivity of the "bulls." known that the British Govern-ways guilty of an offence, or may his Lady to dine with us, upon a pects two millions ultimately. A ment, as well as the Imperial circumstances here also alter cases: turkey that our Compradore doth deputy has just put down questions Airways, are anxious that a
give us as a Christmasse gift, asking what it is doing to help.
of Many of the immigrants have The Japanese stand on naval And after wee falle to writing feeder service linking Hongkong
charades against the morrow and been settled in European Thrace, armaments appears to be based on with the Singapore-Australia UNFORTUNATE EXPERIMENT su to bed, as early as ever I do which is badly in need of an in- knocking the "T" out of "limita- undertaking should be establish-
dustrious und more recall upon a Christmasse Eve.
numerous tion," ed, and plans are well in hand
population to revive it. aiming at this objective. In
口 It is satisfactory to hear that Dee. 25th.-Christmasse Day. All the new settlers are being view of this development, drawn in the South Wales coal area
the strike notices. have been with- | Lay a little late and after fo the partitioned out over the country President Roosevelt's constant Peake Clubbe to get me a bottel according to ethnographic rules. smile may be due to his amuse- would obviously to Chinn's and that the danger of a disastrous of Eau-de-Vie, which seems I have These settlers will be one ment at the way people try to advantage to come to terms with dispute is over. But we hope the practermitted to order, and on element bringing the next census, figure out what he means by what Hongkong, thus linking up her result will not encourage the em coming home 1. du find my good to be taken in 1935, up from he says, national service with the finest plovers in their attempt to trans- friend Mr. George and his family total of thirteen millions to th airway in the world. A policy plant from America, the "company
total come to visit us and wee doe drink expected
of adventeen of reciprocity in this matter nion." This form of unionism a glasse very pleasantly in my millions.---United Press, would be of mutual benefit. to has almost nothing to recommend China and Hongkong, Actually, employees of one firm or corpora
it. A union confined rigidly to the of course, the link between tion cannot in fact have the real Singapore and Hongkong could bargaining power which a genuine be established without the neces-trade union has. It is open, as the sity of flying over Chinese American example has shown, to territory, as there is every rea-unending suspicions of more or less son for believing that arrange-corrupt influence; and is far ments can be made with Siam more often a cause of strife and and Indo-China, whereby flying negotiation and uppeasement.
discontent than
of real rights over their territories would be granted. It would. however, be more satisfactory to LABORATORY FARMING everybody concerned if
the
Hongkong and Chinese Govern-
and what circumstances?
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ments could reach an under- The news that a flock of sheep standing enabling China not have been successfully reared from only to extend her services to feeds leads to interesting specula birth to maturity on artificial this Colony but also to achieve tion on the future of food produc- direct contact with the Imperial tion. Perhaps, Governments will Airways in respect both of the erect huge factories and farmers Australian and England ser will become Industrial agricul vices. With these facts in mind, turista. In the last decade thou- it ought not to be an insuperable sands of chickens have been grown task to devise plans to the "batteries," oléctrically heated mutual benefit of all parties. and lighted, supplied with running This much can at any rate be water. Mature hens live in wire said that both the Imperial hentel, sanitary baras and are led unges. Fine dairy cows live in Government and the Hongkong to a "milking parlour" for artifi Government are fully aware of clal extenction of the lacteal fluid. the importance of developing One of the greatest fields of ex- this Colony as an airport, and ploration is in foods, Man knows are at the moment exploring the little about the elements and their situation in all its aspects. It eflencious combinations. Perhaps is not unreasonable to hope, in the future man's food will be therefore, that in the not distant science may grow now grains, grown in laboratories. Natural future events will take a definite vegetables and fruits. The "home turn, with the prospect of on the range" may become grent Hongkong at length enjoying livestock apartment houses. regular nerial contact with the boratory farming may solve our outside world.
agricultural problems,
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"When you're ready, Mr. Gable, we'll shoot, the first scene in
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American doctors are permitting payment for surgical operations on the instalment plan. If the patient stops paying, we presume the appendix is put back again.
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Scientists in Africa are search- Jug for a three-horned rhinoceros. A local inebriate, however, tells us that he saw two the night before. last.
Some of the cinema scenes aboard alleged luxury liners seem all bunk.
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"Referee Cheered," says a head- ing to the report of a football match. The home team must have won.
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We read an article in a Home paper recently on "The. Fascina- tion of a London Fog." It's hard to imagine what people can see in
According to an expert, catching whales, is a very hazardous occupa tion. To
say nothing of the physical difficulties of describing those that just get away.