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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1948.
HONGKONG'S NEW PLAGUE OF SQUATTERS' HUTS
THESE VIVID PICTURES by our Staff Photographer tell the story of the new plague which has descended on Hongkong-the mushroom growth of squatters" huta in the elly and urban areas. Some of these photographs were taken in flospital.Read near the old Govern- ment Civil Hospital; others on the hillsides between Wanchal and Kennedy Road. Few. huts, if any, have sanitation; many are overorowded and possess no safeguards against fire; all are mean and furnished only with stools and rickety tables made from odd pleres of wood. (See story on Page 1).
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
ST COURSE AS I SAY.... "I TOLD HER
MAKES HO
DIFFERENCE
"AN'
SHE SAID-
#SO I SAID TO
HER...
EC
"The Party Line"
BI KEMP STARKETT
UCHANIE! JOAN
i
YOU BEHAVE
YOURSELVES WHILE I'M LOST, YA; HEAR
ME
BLA
-BLA!!
BLA
ISHOWED IN, AND NEEDING A SNOW-PLOW SO YOU CA GET TO THE STORE, VIILE TWO DAMES WORRY, OVER "THE PARTY LINE ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO
THE MOVIES THE EVENING.
WELL, WHYDJA ANSWER FER IF IT'S DA WRONG NUMBER... JERK
AFTER TORTY MINUTES OF TELLING HER BUDDY THE CALE THING OVER, AID OVERZ AGAWWIILE YOU TRY TO ORDER OIL FOR A THIRSTY OIL BURNER..
BRURING
RIN
BRRR-ING
SOME PREFER THE PARTY-LINE TO SOAP OPERAS OR TAE MOVIES FOR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT,
RING RINGING
NG
NGNINING RING RING
B-R-RING
RING
DING
RING
THEN THERE ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T. CARE WHAT HAPPENS. TO THE TELEDIONE. SO LONG AS THEY CAN USE IT... VIEN
THEY WANT IT.
"WELL, HOW AM
I TO KNOW YOU'RE
USING THE LINE
UNLESS I PICK UP
THE RECEIVER
HELLO
HELLO
"SNOOP!"
NOSEY!"
THE WRONG NUMBER AT I A.M... AND THE. USUAL COURTEOUS CONSEQUENCES.
Ledger Syndicate.
Gannett
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FOUR RINGS, TURTY-TWO TIMES WILLE YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL PROGRAM IS ON THE RADIO. GETTING
·SORE IS EASY AS FALLING OFF A RIG.
THEN "THERE ARE THE SUSPICIOUS ONES WIO “ARE CERTAIN YOU'RE JIKT TRYING TO GET SOMETHING ON THEAL ....WAICH WOULDN'T BE DIFFICULT..
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