Freedom Of Information How Strong
Convention Approved
Flushing Meadow, May 14.
The General Assembly of the United Nations today opproved a Convention on freedom of informa- tion which Mr. Erwin D. Conham, United States, describes as the first attempt in history to write into international law a charter for the gathering and international transmission of
nows.
The Convention institutes on international right of correction. By this provision, if a State feels that news concerning it published abroad is false or distorted or is capable of injuring its relations with other States, it may send its own version to the country of publication. Publication of the correction Ciromyko, as a means of streng- is not mandatory. but if the thening the hands of the press correction is not published by nonopolists of the West to in- the receiving State, the ma-tensify their "standerous'
against the Soviet chinery of the United Nations Panda” Secretariat's channels will begin and other Slavic States.
In a speech listing an hour In The General Assembly, Mr. Gromyko said, "What are
the The Assembly Fat rati 3 authers of the Convention alm- oebek this morning to approveng at? What they are seeking the Convention
neither freedom of the press other am provisions of the for freesof of Information, hut
legally hunding articles, are:
are seeking an opportunity
used to give publicity to the correction.
pro-
Convention, which consists of 23 mihin
something quite different. They (we fom of nuvementpenetrale 5 much as possible
erglind access to newK," Prohibition of
Censorship
i piuretanse / except grounds of
fence,
The Ca vendt kath was bitterly nitarized both in the Committer and in the Assembly by the Mr. Andrei Russing delegate,
SL
Remind
Today
Andrew's Church
to spreading information which whipy up war hysteria are conses the hatred of some peoples or other.
most
"Spreading Lies" "It is obvious that only the and profiting by war-mongers are this Convention and are warin-
handa around Ing their
the fire,
arrant militarlata
Mr. Gromyko went on to say that the United States, British, French and Itailan press and the press of a number of other coun- tries, had made it a profession of "spreading Hes about the Soviet Union".
Is Russia?
By JAMES MICHAEL
In the all-Siav play, Tomor row the World Is Ours, which Russia is staging. In apasmodic scenes in the European theatre, we have reached an important Interval. I
Down the face of the Iron Cur-
THE CHIINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1940,
How Did Hassen Get Started In Boxing?
(By ALAN. HULLS)
In 1945 Jack Hossen, who is now considered by be Australia's brightest lightweight boxing hope but who was then a completely undis. tinguished resident of the Charters Towers District, Queensland, got himself involved in
Bombay Street Sweeper Strike
cm-
Bombay, May 14. The Rombay Municipality tolst-9,000 street sweepers and other sanitation service ployees that they will be liable to dismissal if they do not ro turn to work tomorrow morn«; ing as 30 hours accumulation of garbage litters the streets.
The then came out on a light-
o mixup with the local bare knuckle chaming strike yesterday for higher pion.
Hossen fargets what started the argument but he
1
Wes and shorter hours.
"police arrested a number under the public security non- pres act and nine were sen- ténced by a magistrate's court to, three months imprisonment euch.
collected £4,200 from his five-Reuter. Bydney fights and McQuiffan got a magnificent replacement in njo “stable” or Patrick.
tain the Western nudience has all its own new safety' curtain. knows he came out the winner and began to Glancing up at its bold Inscrip-
realise he could use his fists." tion. "North Atlantic' Päel," play-
gers are leaving their seats with But for that chance brawl a sigh of reller for some snatched Hussen might still have been. refreshment at the Marshall bur-droving "In Northern Queens- land instead of being a world- fot.
ranking lightweight who is packing the fans into Sydney Stadium and earning himself
They know that for the next month or two all that the 13 (or 1 1 14 yet?) stage managers at the Kremlin are likely to put on in the West will be a few solu turris by the well-trlod stars — Bit of verbal Jugglery or knock about comedy by Vishinsky or Gromyko before the United Na- flots.
But there is a danger that we shall forget that the Russian play Is taking place on a vast revolv- In stage 5,000 miles deep, and that it faces South and East as well West. We may also for-
Russia',finds: für Bless critical au- diences among the vast depressed populations of Asia.
The decision to hold a fresh Commonwealth conference London this month is a welcom sign that the statesmen of the Empire are aware of this crucial problemi.
Whether or not a Russian out- break in the European front could' be contained is a matter of mili- fary speculation. But it is a more remote danger than the infiltrá- ton of the Kremlin's unarmed agents into China, India and the Middle East, which is already taking place.
He added: "These people are Whist Drive, European YMCA, seeking to have other countries
throw their doors witle open (to) The Russians hope to conquer 8 p..
Women's dieir representatives appearing the wokia dat full the theme of Cu inceting, at Vicarage, | in the guise of correspondents their play without diing a shot. duta They proved. their subtle techni- que in their 30 years' undeclared war with Japan,
10.10.
HKDF training starts at Deput.
Headquarters. 5.30 pm.
HK Singers rebearral, St John's Cathedral hall, 5.30 pm. The Bulls sports meeting Stanley
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and allow them to gather freely about the army, Industry, agriculture, science, etc., of other countries and primarily of the Soviet Union.
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No Humiliation.
To the Western observer the Russian Communist polley in North China seemed to be crown- ed with humiliation when in 1835 the Russians sold the Chinese Eastern railway, for which Czarist
big money.
The win gave him the idea and the successes of other colored fighters, both in Australia and overseas, gave him an Incentive to turn to boxing us a means of
livelihood.
He tried himself out against Jim Sharmen's tent fighters when the show came to town and even then impressed Shannan, sen, with his courage and his talent ably.
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Hassen made his Sydney debut i be lucky sometimes, by hantering Kapen out of the ring-this time taking phly two rounds to do it.
Belgrade, May 14. Eleven students charged with plotting the overthrow of Mar- shal Tito's Government were sen- tenced today to "prison terms Then came the 'Roy Treasure ranging from one to 12 years.
'triol of a second group of | fight: The critics who were still unconvintbed of Hasion's "ability tipped the rugged Treasure to diets will be announced on Mon- eight' ended today and the ver- vory hint a race. Treasure was The 11 defendants were charged down in the first round and was with establishing permanent con- finished in the fourth It was then generally agreed that Haseenact with foreign sus centres, was the next lightweight cham- They belong to an organisation pion and although that question known as the Council of Yugo- has still not yet been decided Laslov: Démocratie Youth.-United.
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Sharmian. "He came the first day of the show and picked a pretty feat of Leo Heaney and Stadiumi... good fighter. He got well beaten. Ltd. started to look for an Im-but adds that-he-all has a lot to
Icare. But he was back there before 'portation for the Australian: the show
Tommy Stenhouse, who had. openied the next day and asked me for the Ishmic up- taken Vic Patrick the distance on ring, but a clendi-pan in the
had learned from his previous trip was selected casionally he feels nervous. ponent. He the fight on the previous day, all bnd-Hassen stepped up another was nervous in my first Syingy for all your travel and accommodation problem right, and he took the niency on rung by decisively beuting the night, But I soon got over 11, Re
stocky little Negro on points, this occasion."
An RAAF station fight pro- gramme gave Hasson his firat
real chance to break into the
game.
sald.
sight."
he admits that oc-
was a little nervous before
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A Cagay Fighter Stenhouse a cageyghter, the Steinbuse fight, but when Agents: made things hard for Hesten. He saw that packed house I felt good Ile fought Ern Hammond a six-continually held and Hessen foulle much better. That's
It dimeult to nuff him although he
In his own quiet way Hacaen rounder and got the decision on
caught up in the le
rounds puints.
la confident he can take the the Negro some severo: Hausen remembers
gave the fight and
Australian title. He isn't great- very well. "I don't think there punishment.
ly worried about Ken Bailey, was any doubl about my win, Hauen learnt a lot from that
although fact whion was proved
soma expect that Tight he says, "but there had been such a lot of betting on the Bght that the spectators Kot quite aroused about it.
I think there was more fight- ing in the audience, that night than in the ring."
WAS
Wheñchinen Montans, }
about
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CNICO cleverness to tld up
at
A
he decisively outboxsp and outfought.
Hassen has seen Bailey fight. This was the win that answer-Hattends fights as a spectator ed thos
thomassen's
who had their "Hloubts only fit is 't particulary good boxing skill, Dght or if He Wants to see a Hassen had two more nights in though not about the potency of particular fighter in action. Charters Towers and a gentleman his punch. Hassen flat
Hassen, according to McQuillan, by the name of Nick Anastackes proved he could handle a smart trains earnestly for a light, is
particularly willing and energetic achieved distinction of being boxer very efficiently.
the
It was this wir do, that caused road-worker and has an amazing the st Hassen KO victim. He
by one, Nat Fleisther to. Hurriedly revise ability to relax. Away from te followed tapidly
his world lightweight rankings by tramning routine he spends most Cepths Pardon, as No. 2.
home helping Today the KD victims num-putting Hassen in eighth place. of his time
around the house or reading ber 20 from 26 fights and Has and excluding Montane. son is unbeaten,
Western stories, to which he is Hassen then
under the
trongly addicted. wing of former fighter Torrany Nevins, whom he credits with giving him his elementary ring By the loss of the railway the training. Under Nevins' care ther than that.
Hassen, who had moved to Town- Russians added 300 miles to the haul between the West and theirsville, had eleven fights for eight
A quarter caste, he hates beings Far East part of Vladivostock; but KO wins and three an points. they also avoided, the threat of a
referred to as an aborigine. it. Won A Reputation about the only thing that mak treet brush with Japan
were in him, The Arst alne fights
mad. strengthened their defences.
Townsville and latter two in Bristiane. By this time Hassen reputation. had won himself something of a
Russia had fought so tenaciously. to the Japanese for a little măm than a quarter of the price they had originally asked
"Im other words, they Bre seeking to have the correspon- dents or at least a large part of these correspondents-scut
abroad by American, British and other newspaper associations, to gather information needed by the Light Orchestra Rehearsal, American and British intelligence
John's Cathedral hall.
and by the circles which have G .m.
taken the path of preparing fòr HK Rotary Club Junclicon, Roof
Garden, IK Hotel, 12.30 p.m. new war".
THURSDAY
Mr. Gromyko said that Kowloon Rotary Club, luncheon foremost aim of the Convention humess it at the Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 should have been to
for the "struggle against Fascism" pun.
Club, Ladies Night, and to ban Yg Men's
Chinese Bankers' Club, Bank paganda", but
no mon- made of East Asia Bulking, 7.30 ton of these hus. On the other hand, it is giving freedom to the p.in.
and Forrestals whose Women's Home-nursing demons-plans the Soviet Union is frustra
tration, Women's Section, thug by its firm and consistent European YMCA, 10.40 an. policy of struggle for peace." Galg and Dance, European YMCA,
Mr. Canham said that the Con- 6.30 p.m.
vention does not go beyond the existing practices in more de-recourse to the help of the bonster
This victory over Japan without mocratic countries".
Red Army Ir the pattern" of an HOT course, we should like Oriental technique in which the to sea it extend the light, Into Hussians are past-masters. censorship-darkened areas of's
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Today Japan is a fallen enemy, American bombs, and Russia is defeated by Chinese troops and catching her fallen mantle in the Far East,
of the
of the world. But it is chimeri.. is also the type of campaign cal to hope that, in the present wh
which suits the Russian economy. world climate, the Convention Though Stalin disposes would be signed and ratified By much nations au the Soviet Staten", Mr. Canham said.
largest land force in the world, he knows that its value is limited. Wars are won not simply by the number of trained men that can be but in the "fleld in the first week, but by the Industrial forces that keep them supplied:
British Report Mr. Gromyko had earlier, de- fended Russian censorship as necessary to defend the Russian people against "foreign slandera," In spite of the progress of the During the Assembly debate frut post-war five-year-plan. Mr. Hector
McNeil (Unite Stalin háa told his people that the: Kingdom) stressed the difference minimum guarantee against acel- between the expression or dents is an annual production of
opinion and the handling of facts. 60,000,000 tons of steel and 500,-
Turning to Mr. Katz-Suchy000,000 tons of coal. (Poland), whe specialiser
reached only 170,000,000 tons of
reading out newspaper clippings Yet, last year, Rusalan output In support of his McNell said: "I have coal; compared with the United'
clipping
from his (Mr. Katz-Suchy's) newspapers for a change.
It is from the Trybuna Ludu a Warsaw newspaper dated April 16. It says, and I am quoting a literal and exact translation: 'Statistics compiled in the. „Unitéd Nallons Secretariat point out
that
'Kingdom's 208,000,000 tons antel·
Americans' 599,000,000 tons, and 10,000,000 tons of steel, a quarter of the American output
East And West
"The Russians also hope that, by the right of yeto was used by the time they reach those lofty. the Powers in the following man-production targets, they will no Her: The Soviet Union 27 times: longer find wor necessary to ac China 27 times: Great Britain 39 Nieve their aims. They aim by 34er to have complete economie
res United States
Mr. McNeil
added: "Perhaps
control of Asla and India and to have added a row of Far” EIS!
my newspaper clipping colleague: Puppet regings to the Eastern
will explain to us why this
strange inaccuracy crept into
utangan group.
such an "Xamplary newspaper. them will be
If it appear by accident why
was it not correcio!?"—–E
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SALES DOWN
The only thing that will stop.
Pacine cordon nitafre similar to that fuld across the North Atlantic. ***
But it will be an Immensely „more dimeüte task for the British Commonwealth and the Unked States to produce such 'a safety belt-in-the "East than the West where Intellectual maturity and London, Bidy 15,
underlying economie strength. ready existed to help them. British retail salesy slumped sharply In March, the Board of dealing with the Oriental wind in
viễn:Asia the, Oriental Russian jar Trado Journal said yestetuloy. A brea or destris and mouniaista Declines compared: Feb-whare backward minds and sbys- ruary: ranged from fout per cent mais dowellving standard ta for booksållers to 21* Pr cart for
Boviot channels for radio and elegieldaufpiment mailyde
doaler
Clothing sales were up by five
Phi
The task of halting Communist.
The Comilig Lordon and
bhle down to a soxsonal viso. Many ference with the greatest chal traders blame the shops on to the
helenge that the Commonwealth.Fa
Government" ngrussl" "en tuf;)
forever faced,
Char Coone, 30 Which?, now hynings) in The task of the conference will from 20 to 100 fer ésotón «'great be to find a way of demonstrating number of filiams sold "at gefall, the West's will to action In terms
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went
In the second Brisbane fight, Hassen by this time known as the
his left thumb and was out of "Townsville Terrer, badly broke action for six months.
Nevins then returned to Town sville and Hassen transferred to Charlie South.
Hassen came back to polish off Frank Tarrance decisively in three rounds and went on to add George Kapeen, Leo Barry, Bobby Fuller,
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Steady Movie Fan
The led; quare-jawed Hassen, who was born in Cloncurry, is n man or as few words as Joe Louis. His dismisses fus early days us
He is a stendy movie fan with "pretty grim" and "won't go fur-westerns as No. 1 choice and thurders, particularly, if Humphrey! Bogart is Etarred, &
strong second. string.
Makes Him Mad
He is suitably gratifled at his achloverfient or world ranking and expresses quiet pataraction about his rising tank balance, without belly difusive about elther.
Hassen plays no other sport but le an ardent celeket fan. So ardent that ho changed his training "schedule" for
fights this summer when big cricket matches were being played in Aydney to enable him to see
of the day's play. filan nurse the ambition: tum is that he has suddenly be world
thing that rather bewilders to take Hussen through to the tlue. Be realises that mounting fan mál, his pictures alle uile before that ambition tome
a "public" ́ogurt with a. Hasson must first win the Aus- and then the British regularly in newspapers:
and al-Empire plays of her worship wherever can assume concrete shape. ho goes
Bút he's
Conflict that Hassen. IN Newtown, where he lives is fimproving with each fight and with his colored wife, Gloria, and can be improved a lot more. 14-months-old daughter, Loris, he has no worries, that his fighter, a
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He
Joe Grant and Les Füller to 15 | has beedrie king of in packs, the light grow out of
victim list.
The five rounds knockout of They y follow, him about
him Карсен
fights made **Sydkay managers and fans reailee that restaurants Hassan probably had something, | mus
up trams and He reckons there thousands of
hia
In fact, he is pretty happy about the prospect of one day a world title holder. managing *If "everylling Happens accord-
and when he outpointed Bobby signatures. floating around the Fuller, a doktor
with a sound district.
His plans?
He wants to wining to the Mullan plan it will be a nice ending to the story of record, they were almost con.
the Australian title`ind” have” “Ai i the Charters. „Towers boy what vinced.
Several of these Sydney mana-many fights as possible. • Hb gọt himself into a list argument. gers were dickering with the dead wants to build a house! Beydill
aris!
plans at
at this
of buying Hassen for their stable that he doesn't thine i Worley Sun. but Ern McQuillan, who had while malding trained and managed Vic Patrick, stage. beat thom glf to the pinch
Overnight Hunch
On an overnight hurch Me- Quillan Liew to Brisbane on an early plane and clinched the deal, That night he arrived back in Sydney with Hassen.
'An overseas.trip? He'll leave. that to McQuillan. If McQulitan thinks it la justified Ka"will be gulded by him.
His toutaert night? He doesn't think he has ever had a rally tough one. He has never been knocked about badly. Sterhouse That sudden flight of McQuil fired him, But it hurt him: lon's to Rrisbane was a pretty de-
Improved A Lot cent break for both him and Hassen.
-Hassen thinks he has improved Hassen got a chance to break a lot since he came to Sydney. Into the big money hồ Tiha Kề thinks ho fa a better boxer,
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