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but there would seem more ground for thinking that they were con- cerned rather more with securing. assistance in their revolutionary plans than in accepting Communi- stic principles and applying them to Chias. So with many of the so- called "Red" armies in China- they are merely "Red" in the sense that they have in common with all plotters against constituted autho- rity a wish to stir up trouble and themselves profit thereby. Communism as a political principle, involving the holding of property
DAY BY DAY
NOTHING HAS BROUGHT MORE GRIST TO THE MEDICAL MILL THÀN INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA, AND NOTHING HAS CONTRIBUTED MORE TO THESE THAN IGNORANCE AND NEGLECT IN THE KITCHEN-Sir J. Crichton Browne.
Fra' Aberdeen Awa'
His Opportunity,
The Darminian Theory. When an Aberdeen boy asked · Hanging at one of the stalls at} Church Bazaar was a card; his mother the other day: "Is it "Luncheons from 1 to 3 pm, 1/6. true, mither, that we sprung fae "We'll just hae oor donner here, Monkies?" she replied, " diuns The Ben Line s.a. Benreoch, lassie," said an Aberdonian to his ken, laddle. I wisna very weel from Home, via Straits and wife. "Twa oors steady eatin' for acquent 'wi' year father's fowk." Of Manila, is due here on the 21st 1/6 is nae sae bad."
instant.
The many friends of. Mrs. Rogers, will be glad to hear that she is progressing after a very serious operation which she underwent yesterday.
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Marriage Problem, "Man. Dauvit" observed Sandy "marriage is an awfu' expensive in common and, in its extrema Rogers, wife of the Rev. W.mars. A month efter I wis merried, she asked me for a pound. form, the opposing of social or
Three weeks after that she asked ganisation in families, these 30
me for anither and last Setterday called "Red" soldiers cannot have
It was the same again." the faintest conception, whilst so
"And what did she dae 'wi’“a' A Chinese was fined $50 or one that money?" asked Dauvit. far as the political leaders are coa month's hard labour at the Kow- cerned, even though they may un-loon Magistracy to-day for having derstand all its implications, we been a member of a Triad Society He was arrested on the Yaumati cannot imagine any of them advo- ferry wharf and the papers were cating its adoption by China, whose found in his girdle. social structure runs contrary to the underlying conception of the system.
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"Dao? "I didna gie her ony."
Another Question of Tense, Boy (at home lessons): "What tenso is this, Falther-The farmer drank three tumblers of ale." **
Faither: "I ad Bay his thirst was intense.'
Explained!
"A street musician earned £2
Railway Candour,,:. The Abordoninn was trying. get into the railway compartment with a very bulky case when the guard came.
"I'm afraid that case is too big to take in the carriage with you." said the railway man. "You'll have to put it in the guard's van."
This, however, the Aberdeen - absolutely refused to do, insisting that it should travel in the com ¡partment.
"Why?" ask the guard. "What's in the box?"
My brother's dead body,” jald - the Aberdonian.
guard.
"But you can't travel with a At the Kowloon Magistracy
corpse in a box in the compart-
cried ment." this morning, a Chinese was fined
the scandalised $90, or three weeks' imprisonment,
"He's coming in the carriage for having in his possession 3 teels of raw opium. He was ar- in one day in Aberdeen. It was a with me," reiterated the other..
"His season ticket's no' expired.” : rested on board, the "Ritagarta" Dundee holiday.
Appearances, with the opium in his girdle.
An Aberdanian removed to a of the kitchen clock, went with her Mrs. Brown, having lost the key An attempted suicide has been house opposite a church with a husband to get another. M
Economy.
Brown waited across the road while his wife went into the jeweller's. Soon she came out. "Got it?' asked Mr. Brów. "No," said his wife. "Why not?".
Most of the politicians in China to-day who are popularly classified as "Reds" have to thank their
three years ago, for the appellation.reported from 16, School Street, They undoubtedly worked hand in from which a Chinese male, Chengclock, and stopped his watch.
to the
Proof Positive. glove with the Soviet propagandists King-lun (28) was sent
An Aberdeen half-wit was taken Government Civil Hospital suffer- and paid lip-service to their politi-ing from the effects of opium to the police office on a charge of Bis cal preachings, but the association | polsoning. It was stated that his begging in Union Street.
lawyer explained that his “client condition is serious, was without question primarily a
was mentally deficient: "If he
Well, Mrs. Swagger" was ip matter of linking up with anyone In reporting the theft of two wasna' daft." he argued, "do you there buying pearis, se I couldn't The engagement is announced of likely to be of assistance in fur-motor horns belonging to Mr. F. think he wad beg here?" The ask for a key for a kitchen clock,"
"What did you do, then?" H. Smyly yesterday, we stated case was dismissed. Leo, eldest son of the late Mr. thering the revolutionary move that he was associated with the
Two Birds With-
"Oh, I just inquired how much It A. Weill and Mrs. Weill of meat which they were sponsoring. Industrial and Commercial Bank "Jeannie, lassic," said an Aber-Would take to clean a diamond "Alberose," Pokfulum, and Veronica, only daughter of In this connexion, Russia poured the Far East of the New Zealand had a veesit fae Tammle and Ive
Ele ls, however, the manager for donian to his daughter, "I've just tiara."
The Glasgow Twang. Mr. and Mrs. Jefford, of 17, huge quantities of war material Perpetual Forests Company. We consented to your marriage,” The Glasgow "Twang" is every- Prince Edward Road, Kow-and any amount of money into regret the error.
"Oh, but Falther," she blurted where heard in the East just now. new Ravenscraig Park, China, in the fond hope, since
According to a report made to out, "I dinna want to leave my in the
Mither.'
Kirkcaldy, one evening, one would shattered, of winning over the the police yesterday, a Chinese "Hoots, lassie," was the reply, have fancied one was on Glasgow country to Soviet principles. woman, Chang Kwai (63) of 63, "dinna let that trouble ye; ye can Green.
"I canta unnerstan' your speech, We need to be on the guard, how-guilar Street, fell into the tak her wi' ye."
hathour from the Yaumati Ferry
ava," quoth a Govan man to a her ever, against the loose employment in an attempt to retrieve
A fan lasts Aberdeen women a Kirkcaldy native, "it's owre much umbrella which had fallen over- of such terms as "Communists" board. She was rescued by the lifetime. They hold the fan atilla drone for me
- "An yours, retórted the Lang and "Bolsheviks," which are nowa-. crew and sent to the Kwong Wah and wave their heads.
tonian, "is owre melancholy for A Dear Friend. days applied at random to many Hospital.
me. Man, it soonds juist like the Tammas: What do they mean while of a sick dug." politicians and groups having in The masters of the scaffold by A Dear Friend" Sandy reality very little in common with | building" trade approached the Sandy: dinna ken but the the school of thought to which these S.CA. yesterday and requested dearest friend I ever had was a that their representatives might man that was married three times. designations properly belong.
meet the strikers in conference; He cost me twa wreathes and three with Mr. Li Yau-taun to act as weddin' presents in sax years."! arbitrator. The workers have
A Gratuity Bignified their willingness to "What's a Gratuity, Donald?” adopt this course, and a meeting "A Gratuity," replied Sandy, "is will take place within the next few what an Aberdeen Fermer disna daya at the offices of the Chinese gie a laddie for haudin 'his horse. Chamber of Commerce.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUG. 15. 1930.
THE "REDS" AND THE "COMMUNISTS.”
Records and Records.
To the student of China's affairs, nothing is more striking at the moment than the wholesale condern-
Although only a few weeks have nation by all her politicians of what elapsed since the Hunter Brothers
is termed "Communism." This established a new air endurance seems to be the one solitary point record in America by remaining on which all the various cliques are aloft for 553 hours, that record has In agreement. It is true that one
now been broken by two other men who talk of attempting to stay up group will describe another as being for 1,000 hours. It is significant Communists, but the group so that the new record has been esta charged will instantly resent the blished by the former holders and allegation and most likely hurl back it would appear as if here is the the accusation with compound in-start of a vicious circle. Jackson terest. In fact, it has by now be- and O'Brien may stay in the air for come quite the custom in Chins for 1,000 hours and then it is logical politicians to label all their op
on recent history to assume that the Hunter Brothers will again go up ponents as "Reds." As á conse
and try and stay there for over quence, there is a great deal of 1,000 hours. The question arises confusion created, with the result whether there is any value in Buch that the unbiassed observer has endurance records. It was im- great difficulty in classifying diques | portant, of course, to demonstrate and personalities.
that an aeroplane can be re-fuelled If we take the recent charges by in mid air for that may have a Nanking against Wang Ching-wefmarked- influence on air routes of the future. The practical naturé
as an example, we find the latter of this has been well demonstrated indignantly repudiating the allega- and it has been proved conclusively tions that he has been actively sup-that fuel can be supplied to an porting or instigating the "Reds." aeroplane in the air so long as the He goes further and asserts that supplies and other necessities Jast he has urged both Feng Yu-hsiang out. It has also been proved that and Li-Chung-yen to suppress the an aeroplane can remain aloft until Communists, as all three are oppos-machine fails. It has been record- either the human elements or the ed to them. If, however, the alleged that the Hunter Brothers were edly intercepted wires have been in a poor state of health when they correctly reported, there would ap-came down after 553 hours aloft. pear to be grounds for believing Their descent then was due to g that Wang Ching-wel has been mechanical failure. If these endur- associated with movercents by ance tests aim at the perfection of the internal combustion engine, forces popularly described as "Red" then they are of some value. But with the aim of over-throwing the there are few who dare contend Nanking regime. But here, again, that the time will ever arrive when we come to a question of the use machinery can be made absolutely of terms. Are there in Chinese infallible and we imagine that the political or military circles to-day men taking part in the present record breaking attempts would any real Communists? Are not find them difficult to justify on the majority of those so described scientific grounds. A highly valu merely revolutionaries who are able experiment has now degenerat- themselves seeking power or else ed into a stunt and has the most bandit-troops whose one aim is unfortunate effect of encouraging looting? It is true that both Wang others to set up records which are Ching-wel and Feng Yu-halang, in nothing more than foolish. When the heyday of Borodin's influence boys sit in tree tops for days in part emulation of airmen's feats, in China, were closely associated then there is good cause for the with the Soviet propagandists, record breaking craze to be ended,. whose object undoubtedly was to particularly when the records are turn China into a Communist State, merely spectacular.
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Pudden and Kail
A Scotsman who made a fortune remained the same genial, "rough tyke" that he had always been be fore riches came his way.
One of the first society func tions he ever attended found him full of amazement at the cere moniala, the dignity, the powdered flunkeys, and airs and graces of the guests.
He was nervous all through the An Aberdonian on a visit to the dinner with which the proceedings Impatient at awaiting his turn to get a bucket of water with East, accidently fell into the Black started, and when, after the soup, which to cook his food, a Chinese Sea and was drowned. At the in- one of the footmen tried to remove picked a quarrel with a fellow-quest it was discovered that he his spoon, he gruffly ordered the workman and inflicted a wound on had ben trying to fill his fountain man to replace it. peared before Mr. Whyte Smith at his head with a hammer. He appen,
The Coffin Sale. Kowloon this morning and
WAS An Aberdeen Undertaker smaller one.". ordered to pay $1 as compensation anxious to increase his business to the complainant, while both advertised a few coffins at half the same I'll keep ma auld spane. were bound over in $50 to keep the price. Next week there were six Ma mooth's as big for pudden as
suicides in the Granite City.. peace for six months.
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