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Work, especially visits to the Foreign Office and abroad in connection with loan business, also recreational activities, entertaining and family affairs. Mrs Addis's entries deal mainly with her family, especially their schooling and she occasionally mentions her husband's work. Written by Addis and Mrs Addis.
JANUARY South Manchurian loan issued after problems and opposition; Addis lectures on 'Western Culture as a means of Chinese Reform' at Stepney Readers' Union to an audience of 'working men and women many without even a collar on; but so interested, so intelligent. They followed every word and afterwards Charlie had to answer many questions and enjoyed himself hugely.' 20; new Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) premises in Gracechurch Street, London purchased.
FEBRUARY To Paris to see the Mills family and for visits to bankers.
MARCH Discussions at the Foreign Office on Chinese customs deposits, the Shanghai-Ningpo railway, Chinese and American loan business; to Brussels for inter-bank conference.
APRIL Family visit to Saltcoats, Scotland; Addis to Paris for Bank of Morocco meeting 'Situation of French in Morocco is evidently perilous.' 22.
MAY Son Charles to Osborne Naval College, Isle of Wight, as a naval cadet; 'Much ado at Foreign Office. French, Russian, Japanese Ambassadors had all called about our Chinese loan conditions - pledging of Manchuria revenues, monopoly of industries etc.' 25.
JUNE To Paris for Bank of Morocco meeting; coronation of King George V rather a tame affair.' 22.JULY Son Tom ill with rheumatic fever; family to Winkworth, Derbyshire, for summer holiday.
AUGUST To Antwerp and Paris.
SEPTEMBER To Berlin for currency conference, 'Unexpectedly harmonious', 23; daughter Betty to attend St. Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk.
OCTOBER Holiday with wife in Germany, Austria and France.
NOVEMBER With Guy Hillier to a meeting in Paris about Chinese loans; secret meeting at home with Sun Yat-sen, Chinese rebel leader, 'A man of say 35, gentle, quiet, thoughtful with the sweetest smile imaginable', 13, and subsequent meetings at the Foreign Office; appointed senior Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) London manager, on Townsend's retirement; anxiety over rebellion in China.
DECEMBER H.D.C. Jones appointed temporary Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) junior London manager.
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