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Sunday Nov. 28  
[[strikethrough]] March 8 [[/strikethrough]]

Morning - letter home, postal cards.

Noon, met Hacohens with Mr [[strikethrough]] Hared [[/strikethrough]] Dov Adiv of Israeli Air Lines, living in Bombay with his family.

Drove to the Zirinsky's home. Lovely, spacious house with balcony on the Peak. Lunch.

Went for drive to see fishing boats in Aberdeen Bay - also the floating restaurants. Life of the people on the boats, called junks & sampans, where they are born, work, live & die.

(Hacohen took photographs which I hope to have copies of.)

Afterwards saw the shacks built by the govt. for the refugees & the poor. Dirt stalls huddled together. Dirt pavements running up the hills. Hens outside the door - Hovels for animals not human beings.

Ended drive with visit to Repulse Bay - Hong Kongs' Riviera



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Jewish Club & Center, Hong Kong.

Sund. Nov. 28
[[strikethrough]] March 9 [[/strikethrough]]

couples dancing sedately Western style - the young fashionable women all displaying their legs in highly slit skirts.

Dinner with Hacohen & Mr [[strikethrough]] Hared [[/strikethrough]] Dov Adiv  They leave in the morning for Rangoon.

Mr. Dov Adiv, Representative for India & the Far East.
El-Al, Israel Airlines Ltd.
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Home 16 A, Altamont Road (Apt. 5) Tel. 75065 "Cumballa Hill, Bombay.

Forgot to mention visit to Jewish Recreation Club with Hacohens near 2 Castle Steps, the Synagogue "Ohel Leah'

Wed. Thurs. Fri & Sat. 8.45 AM

Wed, Thus. eve. 7 P.M.

Beautiful, impressive bldg - wonderful view. Billiard room - 2 Chinese card party rooms - enormous hall & stage all for about 100 members. Fee, high. No school or serious Jewish activities at all.

Transcription Notes:
Victor Zirinsky, Israeli honorary consul; Synagogue Ohel Leah in Hong Kong