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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1932.
POLICE ACQUITTED
IN INDIA
DID NOT BEAT AND STRIP
WOMEN VOLUNTEERS
'CHARGE CONCOCTED FOR POLITICAL
PURPOSES.
STATEMENT IN COMMONS
London, To-day.
LAUSANNE FAILURE?.
(Continued from Page 1.)
concerned with reparations and ex- pects its debtors to pay regardless of any German action.
But it is again hinted that when the European nations agree on a reparations settlement then the United States will be ready to consider proposals regarding debts-Reuter's American Service.
Second Parley Suggested.
Paris, To-day. Premier Ramsay MacDonald's suggestions concerning the Lausanne' Conference unlikely to meet without objec-
are
Government but as the German
conference it is. felt that it may
mer..
a
In the House of Commons, Sir Samuel tion on the part of the French Hoare, Secretary of State for India, refuted crisis is calculated to restrict the the allegation that police had stripped and preparation of a comprehensive beaten & women Congress Volunteers in Benares be expedient to first deal with and declared that according to the District Magis-limited agenda and arrange a trate's inquiry the whole case against the police second conference in the late sum- was false and concocted by the Assistant Mana- ger of an Indian newspaper for political purposes. Int the departure of Chancellor He added that stories of this character were will and elasticity were appreciat simply part of the Congress campaign for propa-ed.-Reuter's Special Service. ganda, and illustrated the grave risk in accepting Premier's Policy Supported such gross and libellous statements.
He was inquiring into the question of taking ideas of the wide scope of the Lau- proceedings against the newspaper.
LITTLE CHANGE
London, Yesterday.
The situation in India during the
past week was reviwed by the Secre- !
tary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare,
two and Pro- the
Reuter.
HEALTH REPORT
The Quai d'Orsay express regret
Bruening, whose qualities of good-
London, To-day.
MacDonald's
Premier Ramsay
aanne Conference are warmly sup- ported by all sections of. Parlia- mentary opinion.
It is recognised that the Premier is doing his utmost to avoid any. think likely to hamper America's ultimate participation although the United States elections are grettably unsettling. The outlook 18 further obscured by Chancler Bruening's resignation.Reater" Special Service.
re-
During the past 24 hours 3 cases in answer to a Commons question. of cerebro-spinal fever, all in the As regards to the Civil Disobe- Victoria District, were reported to dience movement there had been the Medical Officer of Health. Two little change be stated. Attempts cases of Small-Pox and 2 of had been made in one or
Diphtheria were also reported. provinces to rouse interest
For the week ending May 28 the create trouble by holding &
following number of cases of noti- vincial Conference to confirm
fled deseases were reported Small- resolutions, to pass which attempts
Fox, 1 in Victoria District 1 in Kow- Stratheden Distillery, Auchter- were made at the recent Delhi ses-loon both fatal. Diphtheria, 1 in muchty, once the source of an ex-; sion,
Victoria, 2 in Kowloon and 1 in tensive home and export trade, has Enteric fever, now become the centre of a big During the week there was a reue- Aberdean, 2 fatal: wal of the communal rioting in in Victoria, 1 in Kowloon and 3 "import" business, being used by Bombay City. The latest informa-in New Territory, 2 fatal. Cerebro- its new owners, Messrs Arthur tion is to the effect that the posi- spinal fever 4 in Victoria and 1 in Bell & Sons, Ltd., Perth, as an up- tion is still unsatisfactory.
to-date bonded warehouse, to which The Shaukiwan, 3 fatal.
large consigaments of whisky 'areį being sent daily,
CARNERA LOST TO GAINS
affected areas are being patrolled There were 55 deaths reported by the military. The return of the from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. troope brought into the city haa been suspended and the number of motor patrols has been increased.
Sir Samuel Hoare said that the enquiry into the complaints against the Police Officers at Benares, who were accused of maltreating a num-
(Continued from Page 1.) WINNER'S PERFECT BOXING.
ber of young girls had been com. Throughout the fight Gains gave an almost perfect exhibition pleted by the District Magistrate of boxing and time and again delighted the huge crowd by making and the men charged had been Carnera miss while landing blows himself. The crowd were on the honourably acquitted.
side of Gains and the referee's decision at the conclusion of the Women Detained for One Hour. tenth round was cheered to the echo.
A
It appears that the women, who As the Italian giant, over 50 pounds heavier than his coloured were arrested for causing a dia-opponent, made no effort to take the offensive, Gains was able to turbance, were released after one weave in and out of the bigger man's guard. Ducking expertly, and hour's detention when investiga- boxing in his customary scientific manner, the Canadian dominated tions had shown that they were not most of the rounds by cleverness and foot-work.
BOTH MEN FAST.
persona of any importance. Evi- Carnera; always game, lacked a definite plan of attack and was dence at the enquiry indicates that badly managed from his corner. In the seventh round he let loose throughout the proceedings the with some terrific rigth uppercuts and smashes. The blows would women had been merely tools in the have been knock-outs, but Gains saw them all coming and had little hands of the Assistant Manager of difficulty in evading theni. the newspapers in which allegations were first published. The District Carnera was surprisingly fast on his feet and he used his left Migistrate concluded that the whole skilfully. He lost through his lack of aggression and through be case against the police was false, ing out-guessed and out-boxed. that the story of the women being Gains took few chances and was particularly cautious at the atripped was false, that the alleg opening. His panther-like movements, his quick smothering, and, ed beating had not taken place and above all, his superb ring-craft, received him the verdict. that htere was little doub that the whole business was connected for In a preliminary bout Don McCorkingdale, the S'auth-African political purposes elther in revenge heavyweight champion who recently lost on points to Larry Gains, or to deter the Police from deal beat Maurice Griselle, the French champion, on a technical knock- ing with
women volunteers.- out, the referes stopping to fight in the third round when the French- British Wireless Bervice.
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