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NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS

ACTION AND DECISION-

| ECONOMIC DEPRESSION

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Judging from a little incident at should say, that "fell hath no fury Repulse lay the other night, we like a woman's corn!" :

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Many & woman wili attend New Year's Eve party in the latest creation to return home in a last year's dress!

The worst of turning over a now. leaf is that you may find a parti cularly good whisky advertisement. on the other side!

She tried and tried. To rido astride Astrido she tried To rido

I spied her try To strido her strido Astrido

She sighed nice.

We admire the foresight of the Kowloon youngster who bought his father a pair of soft silppers for Christmas.

Dec. 28rd.-Up betimes, and, Thus passos yet one more Christ after trimming myself, to the mna, and I am of opinion that Taken by and large; 1933, near-office where I find little of import save the very young done really ing its oud, can correctly be describe and no later to the Clubbo where do enjoy them, and for thono ed as a year of netion and de- after n glass er so of Holland's whose families are away they bo clston, with the world making waters with Mr. Povy...do and the saddest times of the year. definite forward strides. There Mr. Pitt bo gone to Swalow, as I And from forced merriment there have been occasional setbacks and believe, and I do suppose that it la over a reaction. achievement has fallen short of be to shoot duck, or it may be 26th.-Up betimos for it was high hopes, but consolations geese. But whether yet it be told obligatory I should attend at my everywhere appear, Politically, enough I know not.. Later to the office if only for a short space. acute langers have developed, but Snakopit where I do find to my And thence, my papers being aconomically there has been a most immoderate chagrin that the ordered, to the Krickett where the marked improvement and as this Committee have hung not up Cluble strike pretty well. After movement gains strength, Its in bunches of mistletoe as fa the nuncheon the Army do make a and fluence. for good on the politien! seasonable and friendly custom in fob of it and so are beat by an situation must begin to operate. these days. And no.I am resolved innings, which did plesso me This essential truth has been to ask a question about it next mightly as I had wogered fully grasped by the administra March an I forget It not. Thus would be so with a gentleman who. tlon at Nanking, which puts its thwarted 1 do entertain Slr had naporned my knowledge of the plane for reconstruction In the Minnes and his lady and with game. So I win a florin and thin, forefront, the clearing up of them another pretty lady, and when I do receive it, shall be internal chaos, economic origin, after to the Krickett. But Lord! treasured as a heirloom, and I as the pre-requisite of, ciciency when I bo come there I find a shall so demise it in my tosta- in handling foreign affairs, sorry business, the Army striking ment. Later, after writing in my very I, and I doubt not It is be- rnom, where to my great content cause Mr. P. Muleygrubs plays my flowers do remain fresh though not, he being injured by his horso bought theso four days, to the that kleks him these three days Barre where I fall in talk with Mr. Kone. Yet there he is to watch Povy, Creed, and Coloriel George. One of the most far-reaching though his wound be bandaged and Anon comes Mr. Share and Mr. of events of the year Was the the same becomes him mightily. (Cartops and much pleasant con- failure of the supreme world Later the Clubbo strikes and to verse, but Lord! methinks we are effort to cope with the economic

see a Father and a Son striking all mighty flat and dull to what depression by International action

at the same occasioun be very we are wont to bo when Mr. Pitt and cooperation. An opening for strange and pleasant, and I am is among us. But now he, as it reassembly of the World Economic persuaded that the elder yet hath seems, hath shot no fowl-or, if Conference has been left, but the pre-eminence. Later read he hath, I have received no birds every development since has tending an olde booke in my Chamber in cold storage, which may yet ed to further postpone the pro- and so early to bed.

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24th. Lord's day-This day between us. Among the things tions, finding their neighbours as is my custom I lay late and we do talk of the great disaster unable to face the Issues disordered my chamber, setting out near Paris, and Creed tells us that interestedly and prepared to help such flowers and holly as I had. night all the deaths do occur in one another, have chosen the only

But Lord! it do take the mind those coaches whose fabrique was alternative and are helping them selves, endeavouring to put their back overmuch to past seasons of of wood. And then I call to mind Christmas and i am mighty that in the smaller accident which

One of the effects of the de- LAMMERT—At the Matlin Hos-own houses in order.

melancholique. And so later be- did take place here at Ma Niu pital, on December 30th, 1933,

fore the evening meal I to the Shui the deaths in the main were pression in Hongkong is that Gerald William Lammert, son of

Barre where I find Mr. John and in a wooden conch. And we are anusage-makers are finding it hard. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lam-A DANGER

others and wo do agree that, it all agreed that such should be to make both ends meat. mort, of Canton.

being the eve of Christmas day, forbid by law.

口 27th. This day, the holiday be- we must make some cheer and so Mr. Stewart and Mr. Ems do bid ing ended, I.go back to my office us to a meal, which their boy sup- and there find much business. plies most excellently from tins But Lord! to see how the weather But Lord changes, and comes a dull day and after at cards. save that once I do draw a with drizzel rain and all very un- straight in a five card draw I do pleasant. Yet I find that in the little, never holding so much as day the officers of the King's France, has the upward tendency a flusho and so am some florins Shippos and the Army do playpared to practise economy if out. And so, game being at Krickett, and the Navy have ended, sve do summon the ele- the advantage, which was con- their husbands can afford to pay trique lift by the touch of atrary to my expectatioun. Talk for the experiment. switche, and it comes in obed-ing after the game with Mr. lence. But Lord! it seems that Muleygrubs ho tells me he is much though this work be complete, yet recovered of his injury but not. it in praetermitted to supply the yet well. And I am sorry for it, keys that shall open the doors, for he and Mr. Clive alone can and so, though the lift be waiting, make headway for the Army with the barred door presenta on the bat, Anon comes Mr. Tom obstacle and we must walk down and would wager me a florin that sonte erven. score stairs which is the Navy do win. But I am not. In these days, before a man puts na unthankful to the feet, as to the for it. Later, at the Clubbe money into a going concern, he mind. And so home very late. where I hear that Mr. John goes ahould make sure which way the

hospital, having somewhat concern is going.

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

DEATHIS.

RIOS-On 30th December, 1933, at H anf nt his residence, Fabio Rios, Consul General for Panama. Funeral will take place

nt 11 o'clock to-morrow.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

In general, there is a very gravo danger of unenlightened selfish ness controlling the economic poal- tion of the world for some time to come. Only where it is possible for economic pressure to be exerted, as in Britain's recent exchange surtax conflict with

of tarif walls been checked. All nations are striving to increase exports and reduce imports, which is plainly impossible in the long rún,

BRITISH POLICY.

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One thing about botting on

pony-racing. Is that it tends to keep money on the move, even if it's only one-way traffic.

Most married women are pre-

Old Moore's prediction that there would be a terrible calamity this year has just come true., Our cook-boy has given notice.

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spreading information aro-tole graph, telephone and tell-a-woman.

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"Your paper is a good one," writea a reader. "I am sending you an article." Our paper is a good one. We are sending back the article.

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Hongkong

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1933.

THE DYING YEAR. Few, if any, regrets will be British policy is observed to be felt in Hongkong over

the freer from the quality of self- passing of 1983. The year hn's

Interest than most others. And been by no means a happy one the examples: we have set in many for the Colony. Trade has directions are being closely ex- amined and followed. Eleven

25th. Christmas Day. This to seriously slumped, with adverse years ago wa recognized the un-

day I awoke somewhat late and amiss with the sciatique nerve, effects on all sections of the wisdom of both Debts and

after trimming myself do on my and I am sorry for it, as this is community. The Colony had parations, and renounced both

best cont of merino fabric and a most painful. 11. But I trust for years been so free from the far 019 we, singly could. Yet smail-clothes and so to the Cathe-that he soon be about again, lest worst effects of the world de- France clung to Reparations until dra where is much good singing the play called "The Ten Minutes, Edward Kelly, is a dozen empties.

Buffer. But later pression that we had come to last year, and the American_Con-

and as large a company as over 1 Allb" do live in a feeling of false security. greas wants to cling to Debts Baw there. But I was somewhat learn this is well in hand and I Bull. Ever since the crisis-bogan at-a-loss-in-one hymn--where, as do trust to sco_it at the end of Now that our turn has come, the in 1929, it it had been possible to Creed did put it, the major part January, for from all accounts it shock has been intensified. collect in a room, say, the 200 of the choir did grin like dogges do be a most exciting drama, to Looking back, in the search for lending economists of all nations, but the trebles ran about the city. which I doubt not our local watch reasons why we should have so it would have been found that, But what the name of this style will go that they may gain infor long escaped the experiences of perhaps, 30 per cent. of them of harmony be I know not-yet I mation in the methods of London others, there can be little doubt were agreed in policy on a large do approve it. Thence to the detectives. that, as a Colony, we have been number of points. With that Queen's Pler where I get me a 28th. A moste foulo day with to a great extent living on our agreement Great Britain's policy motor-wherry and so to the King's drizzel nigh all the time, yet capital. The building boom would have been in substantial shippe Herald and there' drink a they do play cricket and the Navy which began in about 1929 and harmony.

glass or two of Hollands and later wins-as they did doserve, Cost other leading,

merrily to nuncheon and much me a dollar to Mr. Eagle, Yot it

There country's would. renched its peak in 1932 was

good cheer, but Lord! a sorry bill was as I think a sporting declara women who seemingly could play artificial. Money which Joy idle was poured into building WAR DEBTS ventures, many of which were: not justifiable economically.

debt negotiations in The slump has not only resulted Washington were as abortive as in decreased employment and a the Economic Conference. Pre leasered demand for all mannersident Roosevelt, aware of the of materials, but, with the fall stubbornness of Congress could in property values, a great deal not openly accept Britain's max- of the capital has been lost.imum, and although the postpone Our trade statistica haye ment of discussion was attribut- throughout the year shown aed to an inability to settle such decline both in exports and in a difficult problem with President imports, but the fall in the lat- Roosevelt's monetary programme ter has been markedly greater undeveloped, the Shadow of Con- thun in the former. When it is gress was probably much more influential. If this were other- remembered that a big percent wise, was an absurd waste of age of the Colony's imports are time for the President to invite re-exported into the China mar-Ste Frederick Lofth-Ross to kot, the heavier decline in im-Washington. The Roosevelt mone- ports, as compared with exports,tary tangle had commenced clearly demonstrates a falling fore the British expert left Lon- off in internal consumption. In don. The net result, however, other words the Colony's pur-it is safe to imply that Britain may here again be satisfactory, if chasing power has been serious will go on making small token ly curtailed. Retailers and payments until the Middle West

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wholesale dealers alike are pain- gets into the habit of it, fully conscious of this fact." As

to the future, we still await that

revival of world trade which, |HOPE AT HOME

when it comes, will doubtless

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make its effects beneficially felt

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of somewhat depressing condi-Fossibly, we have touched bot- tions, report a slight turn fortom, in which event 1984 may be the botter latterly, and they are anticipated without any feelings not without hope for the future, of gloom or despair..

I have to pay my wherry when it tion of the Army, for had they bridge till the last trump puts me ashore for I had forgot I been so minded, they could have bid It attend me. Walked for a drawn the game. After, much space in the Gardons and later talk of tho forthcoming match of dined with My Lord where much Navy and Clubbe, and I am cheer acting charades and singing grieved at heart that Mr. Holland Hongkong golf courses seem to merry catches, and

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"All right, Bill, if you still think your pop can liek niy

old man, bring him out here.”

Some of the plus-fours seen on

sult their wearers down to the ground.

Very soon now, the only thing left of the old year will be the chite.

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We hear of one lady who is go- ing to make a resolution to give up smoking. We always thought she was pretty hot!

Fortunately, haggis, turkey. boars' head and onions aro not associated with New Year festi- vitica,

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It may be trus that it's doods, and not words which count-ox- cept when you'ro cabling Homo...

There's a fortune awaiting the man who'll Invent a waistcoat fit- ted with a safety valve which will Bound a warning whistle, whon bursting-point is reached during the festive sonson

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The Soviet is pleased with Mr. Bullitt, the American Ambassador, which suggests that Mr. Roosevelt made a good shot. -

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