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1st. Monday. Rain between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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Seoul home. Went to Postal Affairs Hall(遞信事業館) where the Korean branch or Committee of the Research Association was called to meet Vice AdmiralHada. His talk was interesting and instructive. Lunch with him at Chosun Hotel. Vice Admiral who is an expert in gun-powder and allied subjects, is a teetotaler and a non-smoker. Wonderful how a naval officer of his rank could have maintained his temperance principles and practice. All honor to him!
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2nd. Tuesday. Cool and pale sun a.m. Beautiful p.m.
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Seoul home. 10 a.m. called on Mr. Chief of Police of Jong No Station and told him the reasons why I can't recognize 申點童 as my father's concubine son and gave him a written statement to that effect.
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Cousin Chi-O was summoned at 12 p.m. the higher police section to answer certain questions concerning his blackmail business.
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Cousin Chi-O told the police that he didn't give Chin Jum Dong his present name 尹致炅; that after hearing my reasons for not recognizing Cin as my father's son, he had written Jum Dong not to come to Seoul; that Cin Jum Dong is making all this fuss just to get some money from me.
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3rd. Wednesday. Pretty―Cool.
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Seoul home. Went to the station restaurant 6 p.m. to a meeting of the Board of Pyong Ui-Won(評議員) of the Seoul Orphanage. The Orphanage sold its old Ok Chin Dong land and buildings for near ¥100,000.00. Fortunately Dr. Oh succeeded in purchasing for the orphanage a valuable rice farm at the cost of ¥80,000.00 which will yield 350 bags of unhulled rice a year.
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4th. Thursday. Beautiful a.m. Cloudy evening.
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Seoul home. Today being the 61st birthday of brother Chi-Wang and Chi-Chang we had a family luncheon at Chi-Wang's home.
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5th. Friday. Rain on and off.
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Seoul home. In obedience to the urgent wishes of the powers that be, I sold what little gold I had to the Bank of Chosun―Receiving ¥3,019.71 I bought there with the National China incidence Bond.
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6th. Saturday. Rain―Cool.
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Seoul home. 11 a.m. the Seoul Volunteers Supporting Association of which I am the nominal president, met at the Citizens' Hall to discuss the program for giving a good send-off to the 49 Korean volunteers who are to be sent to the front along with other Japanese soldiers.
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7th. Sunday. Beautiful. Warm.
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8th. Monday. Beautiful.
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Seoul home. 3 p.m. Mr. Shiobara, the President of the Volunteers Training School invited the Volunteers to be sent to the front to a light entertainment at Kyong-Hoi-Ru. The Vice-Governor of Korea, the Commander of the Army of Korea and other high officials present. I, as the President of the Volunteers Supporting Association was asked to read an address of encouragement to the volunteers.
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4:30 attended a tea party given in honor of Mr. Pak Choon Kum, the Korean M.P. He began as an ignorant coolie and is now a member of the Diet.
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6 p.m. went to Keijo Hotel where a score of the members of the Parents' Association gave a supper to Mr. Yoshida, the old 主事 and Mr. Nakamura, the new 主事 of the Normal Primary School.
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9th. Tuesday. Dull and very warm.
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Seoul home. Lunch at Jojiya with Mr. 劉漢翼 and his son, 劉轍洙. The former is one of the very few friends now left.
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7:30 went to Ryong San Station to see off car loads of soldiers north-bound. Among them about 14(they say) Korean volunteers. This is the beginning of a new page in the history of the Korean people―the remartialization of the people under the tutelage and discipline of the gallant Japanese army.
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10th. Wednesday. Rain a.m. Clear p.m.
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Seoul home. Thunder lightening, hail and rain about 1:30-2 this morning. Rain most of the morning. Cleared up from 1 p.m.
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The managers of the Central Y. Zaidan met at Central Y., reluctantly decided to send a formal letter or statement apologizing for the transfer of Yi Household land to a 3rd party believing too much the assurance of Jung In Ik that he had the consent of the Household authorities to sell the land to someone else in case the Central Y. didn't need it. Dr. Oh and Dr. Underwood objected at first to sending the apology but Mr. Niwa was so insistent for sending it that the motion to send it was carried. I hate the whole business because I had to sign the letter as the Chairman thus assuming the responsibility of the miserable deal for which Jung In Ik and Koo Ja Ok alone are responsible. Koo Ja Ok is no good for the position of General Secretary.
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7:30 went to Ryong San Station to see off car loads of soldiers north bound among whom a second batch of the Korean volunteers went. An immense crowd.
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11th. Thursday. Rain hard and steady.
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Seoul home. Rain from midnight all day until 2 p.m.
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7:30 went to Ryong San Station to see off the Korean volunteers going to the front with Japanese comrades.
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12th. Friday. Beautiful.
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13th. Saturday. Bright a.m. Cloud p.m.
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Seoul home. 3 p.m. with wife and 明姬 attended the wedding ceremony of 朴, the talented daughter of Mr. 朴勝彬, a classmate of our 明姬 in the Girls' Higher Common School.
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14th. Sunday. Rain from midnight until 11 a.m.
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Seoul home. Cold enough for winter overcoat.
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15th. Monday. Beautiful. Very cool.
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Seoul home. 6 p.m. Mr. Shinota 條田, the President of the Sook Myong College (Girls') Zai Dan and Mr. Ohda(小田) its Principal gave a dinner party at Choson Hotel to which were invited a large number of guests more or less connected with women's education in Seoul. Many a Japanese, even those who ought to know better, talk as if Sook Myong Girls' School were the first attempt at female education in Korea, ignoring the plain fact that missionaries had started schools for girls decades before Sook Myong was born. Credit should be given to whom credit is due.
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16th. Tuesday. Beautiful.
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17th. Wednesday. Beautiful.
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Seoul home. 3 p.m. went to the Normal Primary School for Girls to hold a committee meeting of the Parents' Association. Decided to hold Association's Annual Meeting next Saturday.
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18th. Thursday. Rain between 11 and 12 morning. Clear p.m.
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Seoul home. General Minami who have been touring in Japan proper visiting great cities where tens of thousands of Koreans are living have won for himself golden harvests of good will and appreciation both from the great and intelligent Japanese public and from the Koreans as well. He insists on the vital importance of the unification of the Japanese and Korean races in one family. He has broken the records of all former Korean Governor-Generals by personally visiting the slums of the Korean working people in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka etc. and saying kind things to them. In Osaka a Japanese capitalist suggested that Koreans should be made to conform to Japanese way of living, the General smilingly said: Better both Japanese and Koreans should learn from each other what is good―for example the Korean women's costume.
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19th. Friday. Misty rain.
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20th. Saturday. Beautiful.
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22nd. Monday. Dull sunshine.
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23rd. Tuesday. Misty rain till 7 a.m. Cloudy.
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24th. Wednesday. Cloudy a.m. Sunshine p.m.
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Seoul home. 1:30 p.m. went to the 79th Regiment Compound where a solemn memorial service was held in honor of the dead soldiers on their way to their respective homes in Japan proper.
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25th. Thursday. Cloudy a.m. Sun p.m.
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26th. Friday. Beautiful.
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27th. Saturday. Bright.
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Seoul home. Wife is real sick of momsal. Had a call in Dr. Im Myong Jay to see her.
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28th. Sunday. Beautiful. Hot.
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Seoul home. A real summer day.
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Our 寶姬 with over a hundred of her classmates left Seoul per 10 a.m. train for Tokyo on education-tour(見學旅行) . Hope they will have a good instructive trip. Our Grace in Kyoto and 璋善, 琦善, 龍求, in Tokyo will be happy to see 寶姬.
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29th. Monday. Beautiful.
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30th. Tuesday. Beautiful.
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31st. Wednesday. Beautiful.
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