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THE BIG FIGHT.
No. 25,620
How Dempsey Knocked Out Sharkey.
DISPUTE OVER STOMACH PUNCH.
What Official Slow Motion Pictures Show.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927,
NAVAL PARLEY,
BRITISH CABINET'S LONG SITTING.
DELEGATES SUPPORTED,
London, July 21.
The Cabinet held the longest sitting since the day of the coal stoppage to consider the problem Jack Dempsey has put himself into direct line for a-champion-rising out of the Geneva Naval Conference. It only broke up ship fight for the world's heavyweight title by knocking out Jack because several Ministers had Sharkey in the seventh round. The ex-champion, according to the week-end engagements to the country. Those Ministers direct- cabled description below, staged a wonderful comeback and has re-ly concerned will again meet during the week-end and next asserted himself'in popular favour.
week. Reuter.
The disputed body punch was a fair one, according to the referee and the slow motion pictures.
New York, July 22. Dempsey knucked out Sharkey in the seventh round.
Forts powerful are lamps, focuss. ed on the centre of the open-air arena, threw up the ring in bold relief against the darkness.
Before the start Sharkey WAS favourite al 7 to 5, but Dempsey was made favourke at 1-10 when the contestants entered the ring. cheered by 80,000 spec- They
yere dators.
Both exerted every ounce from the beginning. Sharkey twice drew blood, and raised a bad eut over Dempsey's right eye, but the former champion was unperturbed and kept honours fairly easy to the seventh, when he knocked down Sharkey
sletige-hammer with right.
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INDO-CHINA.
VARENNE'S APPOINTMENT
RENEWED.
POLICY SUPPORTED.
Paris, July 22.
The Government, has renewed the appointment of M. Varenne as Governor-General of Indo- China for ten months.--Reuter.
Alleged Scandals, Paris cables of March 19 re- ported:
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WAR MEMORIALS.
Great Pilgrimage to Flanders.
MENIN GATE CEREMONY.
58,000 Britons in Nameless Graves.
Memories of the grim fighting Irtlepres salient in 1914, 1915, and 1917 will be recalled by the ceremony to-morrow of the Menin Gate Memorial.
It is estimated that 4,000 persons, relatives who lost sons or husbands, will make the pilgrimage, 700 of these being women who are being taken free through the good offices of patriotic organisa- tions.
Rugby, July 22.
Kiukiang, July 29. M. Borodin arrived to-day from Kuling, which appears to be the
of the Hankowi The Government has decided to summer resort party leads.
He was acco. sand a commission to Indo-China panied by Mrs. Prolne. Shortly to investigate the alleged conces after arrival Borodin proceeded sions scandals. Position Fully Explained. up-river (presumably to Hankow) Until this commission has com- London, July 21. in a Chinese steam bunch.-Bri- pleted its labours, no fresh con- Reuter learns authoritatvely tish Naval Wireless,
cessions will be granted, while
At Passchendaele. A Consular Protest. in the that to-night Mr. W. C. Bridge-
those existing will be suspended.j
The Cross of Sacrifice and A great pilgrimage to Flanders and Lord Cecil fully ex-
Chinkiang, July 22. In the Chamber of Deputies, M.]
a monument to vici-
plained the position in regard to
memory The Commissioner of Foreign Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, began to-day when relatives who Memorial,
of the $5,000 a protest interpellated the Government for had lost sons or husbands in the the
the Ypres officers and men of the British the Naval Conference to to-day's Affairs, on receipt of Cabinet meeting and were as-from the Consular representa- the promotion in the Legion of grim fighting in The referee was puzzled for the sured of the Governments full tives, has made representations to Honour of M. Sabatier, a Civil Salient left London to witness the Empire who fell in the later act moment and then gave the verdict and unanimous approval of the General Chiang Kai-shek and to Servant in Indo-China whom he unveiling of the Menin Gate Mem-ions in the Ypres salient and have Dr. C. C. Weregarding the occu- charged with brutality and de-orial on Sunday by Field-Marshal no known graves, was unveiled in to Dempsey amid tumult and ap-line they had taken.
They will return almost imme- plause.
diately to Geneva after probably having further consultations with the experts in London.-Reuter,
After forty-five seconds seventh round sank his right ously into Sharkey's stomach and cars over with the left, not right, to the jaw. Sharkey and his seconds protested a foul,
Ring Side Opinion.
the
Mr. Matheson, one of two fight judges, will report to the Boxing Commission that Sharkey was hit below the belt and that, therefore, Dempsey should be dissualified.
states the
Referee O'Sullivan blow was fairly delivered though he admits Sharkey was hit several times previously below the belt but not deliberately and that the blows were not injuriaus.
The Victor's Smile.
man
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[According to a British Official Wireless report the meting of the Cabinet Jasted three hours and a quarter.]
BUSH PATIENTS.
NOVEL MEDICAL AID SCHEME.
FREE AEROPLANE SERVICE.
Rugby, July 22.
An advanced and romantic
OUR $50 PRIZE.
Reminder to Cross-Word Puzzle
Competitors.
pravity.
Whilst admitting. M. Lord Pluner.
On the Menin Gate, which has Sabatier's ability as an adminis- been built over the Menin Road, trator he said that he had been ai veritable king in the Darlac dis- trict of Annam-for fifteen years. The Communist Icader, M. Cachin, criticised the grant of concessions in Indo-China result- The twelfth crossword puzzleing in the alleged cruel exploita- -of the "China Mail' new series tion of the natives.
appears to-day for the last time, are reminded and competitors that their entries must reach the "China Mail" Office, No. & Wynd- ham Street, not later than noon on Monday next. The thirteenth puzzle of the new series will be published on Monday.
The Colonial Minister, M. Perrier, entirely exonerated M. Sabatier. He left M. Varenne, Governor-General of Indo-China,. to deal with the question of the grant of a valuable rubber conces- sion to. M. Maihot, one of his friends.
M. Varenne strongly defended his policy. He declared that un-
system of giving medical aid tortion of foreign premises by Na-less the Chamber fully supported the isolated interior of Austrationalist soldiers.-British Naval
lis will be put into operation Wireless.
shortly is a result of co-operation between the British Medical Asso- peiation and the Australian author-|
ities.
Six doctors. receiving £800 to £1.000 each, with six aeroplanes,! will wait at their situations for) telegraph or wireless calls for aid. j
Sick missions and eleven hospitals in the interior will thus be linked
[up.
The doctors will make no charge, and the aeroplanes willi
SOVIETS RELEASED.
General Chiang Kai-shek Intervene..
Shanghai, July 22.
I is officialty staled that six
him he would resign.
The Chamber adopted a resolu- tion expressing confidence that the Government would follow aj policy of progress and close co- operation with the natives and secure to the French Treasury all rights in granting exploitation concessions.-Reuter.
Earl Haig,
The Chamber of Deputies, by are inscribed the names of 58,009 Russians arrested, aboard the s.s. 360 votes to 150, expressed con-men of the British Army who are
buried in nameless graves. Henii" were to-day released by fidence in the colonial policy of order of Chiang Kai-shek.the Government. Reuter.
[A message from Shanghai on
be free of charge when used as July 19 stated: A party of Na- ambulances.
tionalist soldiers today boarded
The loneliest stockman can now enli a doctor, who will arrive with the Soviet steamed "Henli." After
in a few hours..
a thorough search they arrested!
The arvice is specially design-eight Chinese, one Korean and ed to deal with maternity cases in six Russian Communists, remov- isolated parts.-British Wireless ing them handcuffed and with leg Service.
irons to Military Headquarters.
A large quantity of documents
ROYAL PARTY.
TEN THOUSAND INVITATIONS
ISSUED.
FAREWELL TO PRINCES.
was seized.
One of the Russians arrested 'was formerly presomal adviser to
General Chiang Kai-shek.]
South and North.
Shanghai, July 22. Referring to yesterday's state- ment from Nanking, Chinese and Foreigners are bewildered. Rugby, July 22. The Royal garden party was
Reuter's Peking correspondent held at Buckingham Palace to-day, says that the Southern delegate In previous years two garden is undoubtedly in Peking, and parties have usually been given that peace negotiations are pro- at the Palace during the sea ceeding, but unsatisfactorily. son, about 6.000 invitations being issued for each, but for to-day's party over 10,000 invitations had been issued and there was a re-
Reuter.
;
HOAX SEQUEL,
COMMUNIST AGAIN UNDER ARREST.
Paris, July 22, M. Semart was quietly arrested on the premises of the Syndicat Unitaire.-Reuter.
Story of the Yoke.
•
It is estimated that 4,000 per- sons will make the journey to Menin Gatz, and of these 700 women are being taken free through the good offices of patrio- tic organisations.
With Lord Plumer at the un- veiling ceremony will be Sir George Grahame, British Ambas- sador at Brussels, representing His Majesty King George; and Sir Lamington Worthington Evans, Secretary of State for War, representing the British Government.
Brussels Tablet. A Paris cable of June 25 stated: To-day in Brussels Field-Mar- As the result of an astounding sha! Earl Haig unveiled at the of Saint Gudule practical joke, Daudet and Delest Church of "L'Action Francaise," and a memorial tablet to 1,000,000 Semart, 11 Communist have men of the British Empire who been released from Sante Prison. fell in Belgium during the war.
Marquis de Jingne, a Deputy, The simple but impressive cere- gave the following account of the mony was attended by the Belgian Crown Prince and the leading incident:
The Governor of the prison re-Belgian officials.-British Wire- ceived a telephone message ut less Service.
Ploegsteert Ceremony. mid-day to the effect that the Government had decided to re- There was another impressive lease Daudet, Delest and Semart, pilgrimage to the battlefields of and instructing him to arrange the north when on Sunday, July to liberate them as undemonstra-19, representative delegation of tively as possible.
the London Rifle Brigade arrived The party was to some extent in
The Governor telephoned to at Ypres, and made a tour in The Bostonian, rising.
the nature of a farewell to H.R.H.
the Minister of the Interior for motor-cars. In the evening, after to the countered a heavy blow
The official slow motion pictures the Prince of Wales who leaves stomach, and a right smash to the showing the action in the seventh for Canada to-morrow with
confirmation; but Royalists in an official dinner, the band of the A Bristol Fighter, on descend- tercepted the call, and told the brigale in full uniform gave a jaw floored him again. He tried round of the fight reveal that the H.R.H. Prince George and the ing in the Race Course after a
that M. Saraut was concert on the Grande Place, and Governor to struggle to his knees on the
Alght over Shanghat this after- count of nine, but swayed and fell disputed blow was apparently quite Prime Minister.
fair-Reuter's American Service. The King of Egypt and the Pre-noon, struck a fence and turnout, but that his private secretary a silver medal was handed to the
on
Jade De
en-
almost senseless, fint on his face as the enunt concluded.
Dramatic Recovery.
Dempsey was clubbed by a series; of hooks and upper cuts which left| him reeling and groggy at the end! of the first round but then made the most dramatic and popular come back in ring history.
Slow Motion Verdict.
BEFORE THE FIGHT.
Sharkey's Training.
It is reported in boxing circles
that $400,000 has been placed on
| cord assemblage of distinguished
guests.
AIR CRASH.
"BRISTOL FIGHTER" TURNS TURTLE
Shanghai, July 22.
The pilot was uninjured but
-Reuter.
sident of Liberia were present.-turtle. British Wireless Service.
PEACE BRIDGE.
TRIP.
Jack Sharkey at 6-5 to defeat Jack BRITISH PARTY'S MOTORING
Dempsey.
Eighty-two thousand spectators. The heat compelled Sharkey to representing G.$1,100,000 in gate- taper off his training one day soon- TO MEET GENERAL DAWES. money were delirious with exciteer than he had expected. He has ment when their blood-bespattered
been working out daily on
London, July 22. hero who in a decisive win showed the roof of Madison Square It is announced that during himself a new man from the one Garden in a specially constructed their forthcoming visit to Canada defeated by Tunney last year. ring. He is a favourite with the the Prince of Wales and Mr. Baid After the first round, when Demperowd that watches his dally work win will motor froni Niagara Falls scy's supportera had almost given outs.
eports from Dempsey's camp at on August 7 to meet General up hope, he fought back moat dog- gedly ignoring Sharkey's ripping White Sulphur Springs are all Dawes (Vice-President of the books and jabs which cut his face, favourable but rumours that the United States) and Mr. Kellogg on lip and cheek causing him fre- former champion is not up to his old the newly elected Buffalo Peace quently to spit blood."
form, will not be suppressed. Brigde. Reuter.
He defied Sharkey's youth, speed and craft and obtained a bulldog grip during the third to fifth by a concentrated attack on the body, in which his arms worked piston-
Division of Spoils.
The flight took place at the Yankee Stadium, New York and was scheduled for 15 rounds.
like and untiringly, and thus paved Gene Tunney in September, accord-was issued this morning:
the way to victory.
A Protest. In the sixth round he delivered three smashes to the head and then
The winner of the bout will meet ing to the contract both men foaght under.
(Continued on Page 9.)
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following typhoon' warning] The typhoon has crossed North- ern Luzon in the form of a shallowi depression. It may Increase Intensity In the China Sea..
in
FLYING CROSS.
ECHO OF FLIGHT TO HAWAIL
was speaking.
Tyne Cut Cemetery, Passchen- daele, the same morning by Capt. G. J. C. Dycett, CAG. The cometery lies just under the crest of the Passchendaele Ridge, an objective of the, fighting in 1917, and the crest commands
A view over the plains of Flanders to the north and cast. Among those present word delegates from the British Empire Service League, the British Legion. and the Im- perial War Graves Commission, Colonel Goodland, the Burgo- masters of Passchendaele and Zonnebeke, and people from the neighbouring villages.
The service was of a simple character, and Captain Dycett, the president of the Australian Ex-Service Men's Association, spoke briefly on behalf of all for- mer soldiers of the Empire. The "Last Post" was sounded by the buglers, and after that the Re- veille, and at the conclusion the Zonnebeke band played the Bri- tish and Belgian National Anthems.
STEEL TRUST.
GREAT SUCCESS IN GERMANY.
STRIKING FIGURES.
Berlin, July 22. The efficacy of the nationalisa- tion of industry, namely, the elimination of unproductive in- termediate manufacturing pro- cesses and the centralisation of mass production is borne out by a statement from the German Steel Trust showing that in the first year since its formation the Trust produced £60,000,000 worth of goods, £24,000,000 worth of which was exported.
The Trust is issuing two loans through American bunkers, first- ly $30,000,000 6 per cent. De- bentures,, and, secondly, $4,250,- 000 simultaneously in America European countries. Reuter.
BURMA MURDER.
FRENCH CATHOLIC FÄTHER KILLED.
YOUTH SENTENCED.
Rangoon, July 22. Pothwe, a sixteen-year-old youth, who is a Karen teacher in the mission school, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Father Shagnot.
BRITISH RUBBER.
RIGHTNESS OF POLICY AFFIRMED.
Accused admitted his guilt, and complained that the priest had harshly treated him.---Reuter, Mayor, as a souvenir of the A Rangoon message of April 15.
The following reported:A French Catholic Mis- "Haven't you released Daudet brigade's visit.
British soldiers sionary Father named Chagnot who the machine was badly damaged. yet. Hurry up; send out for morning the
were driven in motor-cars to the has worked for twenty years in the taxis and be quick about it."
Maubin district, has been murdered. The Governor then released the village of Ploegsteert, to attend in his bedroom. The motive was prisoners, who were utterly un-the unveiling of the memorial apparently robbery. The perpetra- aware of the reason of the re-tablet in the London Rifle Brigade tor's Identity is unknown. lease, Semart, who is Secretary-cemetery, which was consecrated General of the Communist Party, by the Bishop of London in 1915. The unveiling ceremony was in an interview, said that the performed by Major-General Sir Governor came to his cell, told F. H. M. Wilson, Commander of him that he was free and order the 4th Division in 1914, who de LIEUTENANTS HONOURED.ed him to get ready to leave the livered a moving speech, recalling
London, July 22. prison in half-an-hour.
the brave deeds of the London Washington, July 22. Semart protested that he did Rifle Brigade during the war, and present most concerned about was What the Colonial Office was at Lieutenants Maitland and
not want a pardon which did not citing its battle honours. Gen- the degree of acceptance of the de- Hegenberger have received the Include M. Monmousson, Secre- oral Molitor, representing the Bel- gree of eriticism they had to meet Distinguished Flying Cross from tary-General of the Confedera-gian Minister of National De-in regard to the continuance of the Mr. Frank Kellogg, representing tion General du Travail Unitaire; fence: Earl Cairns, Colonel of the Stevenson scheme, declared Mr. President Coolidge, in recognition but the Governor was insistent regiment at the outbreak of the W. G. A. Ormsby Gore, Under- of their flight from San Fran and wapliei hat he could not say war; Lieut.-Colonel J. Micklem, Secretary of State for the Colonies. cisco to Hawaii.-Router's Amer-anything more.
the present commander; and M. at a banquet of rubber planters in rightness of the ican Service.
Semart then concluded that he Alfred Lecomte, Burgomaster of upholding the
polles. had not been pardoned, but had Ploegsteert, also spoke.
He added that he hoped to vialt been released as the result of his It may be recalled that at Poeg-Malays next yeer to see the coun- appeal to the Court of Cassation. steert the London Rifle Brigade try which in many ways was one of
The Cabinet met to discuss the had 91 officers and 849 men killed, the most remarkable examples hoax, and decided to suspend the and 181 officers and 3,929 men economic expansion and British
enterprise in the world-Reuter. Governors:
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