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thru it a time. Most of them barefooted and seated on cold pavements with the women carrying heavy bundles of fruits & vegetables while having a child strapped to their bodies. The lack of space, (one reason for all the clothes hanging on poles in the streets) the smells, the dirt, the incredible squalor of it all!  Women working with men at construction work & handling the shovel, carrying building materials on their shoulders, the various types of women - some without hair, others with pigtails down their backs - no make up - coolie clothes & barefoot - contrasting with some of them who are westernized, in dress, driving modern new cars or wearing the sophisticated fashionable high slit skirt above the knees.


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on Ferry.

Met three Englishmen going back to Kowloon. Mr. Ronald Coleman, Mr. Leddle & Mr. Knight. They were kind & intrigued, I think. Anyway, they all came to the Miramar an hour after taking me there for cocktails. Both Leddle & Coleman are married. Mr. Knight was insistent about taking me to see the sights of Hong Kong & to dinner at the Correspondents Club.  I had to refuse, since there was a tentative app. with the Hacohens to see the Chinese Theatre & with the Sapirs to go to a night club. Perhaps both plans will backfire. Am writing these notes meanwhile.

Saw the Chinese Theater & walked out after ten minutes.

Scene on the steps outside