THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1954..
Petersen took a warning-and saved his sight
T
arm
HEY throw a towel
into
the
ring.... gratefully, you drop your leadweight Ragging
from
shouklers...your opponent, the man whose punches have half-blinded you, grins his sympathy
paus your back.
he
you grupe in u red
mist for Jour
THE FIGHT
THAT. INISHED
SCHAMPION.
corner at the end of each tre- mendous
of round
'counter- punching. Apart from a swellen left ear, Neusel nat markeri and unperturbed.
After
of cap- seven rounds reducing burly blows, Neusel switched his ntention to the head. In the tenth a terdic right swing spilt Petersen's left eye, and Neumel, sena- ing victory, plastered the injury with pon- derous Bwinge 43 red curtain descended on Petersen's vision. All though the eleventh round blood poured from the cut. The alghtless Petersen look every-
by GEORGE WHITING
corner.....and your dream 2-1 ravurite against the flaxen- of world domain is over,
They'll mend your eyes and they'll pay you big money, but you know in
Eatred Neusel,
We ren thought we were mart in insisting, under a £230 more penity cluet, on Neuset cons
then I set no more
1451. 20
matchi the 13st. of the heart that pumps 90 Petersen. What I mug furiously that your boil is maneuvre hat turned out shot.
How much wiser to have 11 the not joo energetic Neusel heave his normal 15st. of slow-moving target into the Wembley ring that night
42.8
It has happened H (holisana times in busing, and never more Pogumotly than to Jack Peter sen, that 08. Waits 14
Young 241 HE
be!
thing-reeling under Fot of punches until his father, white of face and tight of lip, thuust o west-soaked towel ander the bottom rope in token of inevit- able sorrender,
"I lost because was blinded by blood," said Petersen after- wards. "I could see nothing and was ghting like a blind man.. My father, at the end of the Leath round, diri all he could to cyc bleeding. bul stop my Nu pourparlers, no diplomafre dithering, un CAUTHORIS sparing tarly in the eleventh Neasel's
wore paning in we
for #I opening in this fight. labels of a Rush The pink Petersen and the sun shatitgown trips
lill-par-gad taimed fegyen
browned Neuseel were at each IL CAY Walter Neusel, the
Jake Curie's Icom stance House Tager from Ger, other many, hud Bet been peamitied spending grout. to seck protection
th
Clash
1 only Petersen had kept Ins Head.
Italy....
Ilyush, Play the complexvourd Petersen.
fresti-
AGGRESSION
the
glove hit
me genelg blow
sen's career (13
4
PETERSEN TODAY
A prosperous businessman with a sporta skop in Barry, South Wales.
Chandeliers
For
The Comrades
By DAVID LAIDLAW
Phind the Iron Curtain Pearance
have a festive op- other young people, and among and be suitably de- the masqueraders was a teenage corated. Programmes will con- boy dressed in the costume of sist chicily
Russian of Strauss waltzes, a seventeenth-century
other non-hop'- nobleman. Men must wear
Festivities
up, since
RESS reports from be held will
indicate that the dark- and fore the wound open stillness of the Communist mazurkas and Tre. I could not
and, you! far as I was concerned the fight countries is soon to be tem- style dances,
pered with a blaze of artifi- dark suns was as good as over.”
bc. dresses. And finally, soclad Peter cial light. On January 20, has tour must be given And so, virtually, was
Lidova Demokracie, world cham- 1954, plushilp prospect. Four months organ of the Czechoslovak be
be ignored later, in a drenching thunder-
der] "People's Party," announced storm over Wembley Stadium that 183 balls, carnivals and the last professional fight ever int staged there. I saw Neuset eu fany-dress frolics are to be Petersen's eye again and beat held in Czechoslovakin this
year. Realising Thai fa him in the tenth round
some years the Czechs have CURTAIN
had little practice in these matters, the paper then de fined the kind of entertain.
the authoriti?a of
contemplating.
dear PET
DETERSEN, as always, banked
ved and danneelike behand the counter of the sports shop in Bar, South Wale, will teil
་་་
starvelings
Kutsi uite
unty stay
ihen
TE
414
#isht
Rove
become waambled, their reflexes
trild & Pe
mcherly en aggression,
the kind of Aggression borders 0743 recklessness-and therefore courts trouble. Neugel, with the stamina
of a steam-
der, dished out plenty.
the lung our hopes to cro- rende. Petersen crystallise flying start by
AFTER
A Pura thickened,
and the eye, a mass at bumpy Lisstur
emigh Petersen ethan ut 2 me to save his Might
NEMESIS
JEUSEL, WE. tough-muscled
U
Nad anstuling, took up his butivas
сточник n 13-
Len
Wils
over
Jock
a
ment
ball,"
PiL
of this kind and women long to guide them, the Czech lenders nro quite safe Ideologically in
ing for calling brush-
evening dresses and And they are no this "can no longer mazurkas.
doubt glad to be able to do so. nowadays." To help masters
isters of ceremonies The Moscow
and Prague to epe with
all these details, festivities Gre almost certainly a Central Ball Commitice of the Ministry of Culture was formed move to try to divert people's early in 1054. And
to case the minds from the everyday Bancal strain it was announced news of their lives. It is signi-
that tax on
Arst ficant
the that the current
be told to entertainments will be cut by satelite nations to
do one-half 20
the dance and sing should be one by which has consistently shown its dissatisfaction with the Com-
1
when tesuvities
Arranged Party agricultural co-operatives,
organisations,
such
of the recent
the munist regime. are
it
"The idea of a stated, "is always associated with the vision of something beautiful, when, under the brilliant effulgence emitted
Youth Union, the Czechoslovak- Soviet Freudship Society, the Army, the Security Corps, and
SO ON.
of
507
Communist
Dressing-up
of the
jolais Harvey and The prid sleme punch on Neuse's Jew in cle/voy.
stumbled Intu The should know. For Jack the serutuda. at the brick- Petersen
who gut wall German, flushed and hatt three-round thrusting from Ben is the one
The Leicester rugby Three tones
Neusel fer Ute Best time, groped for the Ford on
tant Finally, Nessel beat
The timing of the order too is slushed the left eyebrow, injured shelfering clinch,
Dancing lessons and courses in significant. The prescat winter alas, granted him again--and an especialist And Petersen, first by Len Harvey, and out
instead of mer-
perlaced that, if he fought again,
"cial manners" are also being has been especially
severe in Wh
sabing his faces ante cars fully he might well spend the rest of
organised. Finally, the Govern the satellite countries,
Supplies indifferent to the the his days in darkness. punishment
food, always
inadequate, ghostly Krman of the cloth target that wehbied barn-door
And so the roar of the ring by crystal chandeliers, tanement, The opportunity and down for fighter Petersen, ing couples whirl around to capped pioneers of Communism, has been
have shrunk dangerously; there before himi.
With cruiserweight who the strains of music.....
universal fuel famine, Is planning the publication of a passet, and was never repeated. the
that many people have had thrust his punches A ball is times
21 social event new book on eliquelle. Thereafter. Neusel's club-like three
no heating at all miners have tenk el a German who was too strong which should be regarded as body-puncties Aracualis
been forced to work extra shifts; A new Petersen came contund Tole of Petersen's Nemesis
Petersen flushed an for him.
of out
the
trains have been concelled; and there has been a bad influenza on the might of durated left Wembley Prot
prosperous Petersen something hund a hundred to h[~
his own business, ordinary; it is not a hop* lims at the German's chin, but who runs Febranry 4, 1935 a might when
In this
und energetic
un epid ine. Czechoslovakia's by Fingsiders to
uf those puncher became a Cardiff City enuncillor where street-songs may even aght-hardened
familiar drive A broadcaster,
for revelry, the President Zapotocky, brondenat- an Army welfare
played and men wear vests Czechoslovak Communists pleaded for the punching to be
be bounced.
offleer, and a commit lee-man for
are ing on February 5, described the conditions os In the that. Petersen faltered slipped when jubriant Ge-
When and red, got up without a count, the Army cadets of Glamorgan instead of shirts. Nor is a not, of course, acting wholly on weather ushed the
the cad, "catastrophie." when a
When for neck their own initiative. The lead, designed Neusel at the The crimson rurtain lowered ball Lotirring, unsering. no longer and tore mlo
exhibitions of us always, came from the Soviet normal gloom of winter is ac- handson Petersen went out to frenzied command of his father by Neusel served as a warning. breaking
Union where Petersen look head of it. 'boogle-woogie."
recently for the centuated by shortages of food, and the ith and chief second, whose instrue-
rst time in Communist history fuel and so on, even the most Hi Just in time.
official tions "Rit, him, Jack.
parties loyal spirits are liable to feed there have been in shrill anxiety Petersen was um heavyweight him?"
What better moment WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
in the Krendlin, rather than in downcast. with but one defent above the hysteria of the crowd. champion
up and whirling in 32 us. we had seen 215 211221 Jack hit him, but enshly, indis-
NEXT SATURDAY: zuen ha
The man who cont Dempsey flying
miss
pain-shot disaster rowski.
1.
ring
many
for the world erminateds. and to diminish-
Potrisen it elowning Max ing purpose. Baer; and we had made hini
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who needed.
นวม attention in his
il
Elve Mone
Non-hop
The lead
After this twe homily, the gloomier precincts of Trades for dressing Lidova Demokracie went on to Unions House.
The Kremlin's
around?
It is possible, however, that In practical guidance. George Hall, in which they took
long run it may decorated with the lon
prove to Premises cn which the bulls are plece,
been a trifle tactless of the Inscriptions listing Elded
the noblemen
to have chosen a time who Kremin namos at received the Order of St George to announce these festivities from the Czare.
which must inevitably recall the
YOU CAN'T JAM COMEDIANS
KISSING
IN A TUBE TRAIN
WHO SAYS SO? NOT THE FILM CENSORS BUT A BAND OF BLUE-PENCIL MEN WHO ARE Gagging thE FILM-MAKERS
London.
not take
in horizontal
By JILL CRAIGIE
Watkins at ed Mr
tion, but have even revealed a sense of humour.
A comedy debunking the red-
travel would be almost impossible to produce; but a love story about a pretty minor air hostess would receive un-
limited co-operation.
their ing to perfection. There tape of air postures! Married couples head. He is more concerned must be no suggestion of must sleep in twin beds!
to protect children from un- draughts. Should a healthy influences than to character in the story com- decide what is fit for adults. mit a theft, the authorities Our censorship stems from object because "it will give
The Bank of England recently Whitehall, but it does not little confidence to members
withdrawal of the public, who send requested the end there.
posters showing a facsimile of valuable goods by train."
Rub your eyes and read these two Puritan ediets again. They may sound in credible half-way through the twentieth century; but they are typical of the im-
It is almost imposible to maculate morality. which the late Mr Hays of Holly make a film on subjects of wood sought to enforce. contemporary interest with
The American film censor out "shooting" some of the office isue their decrees and material in its natural set we in Britain obey, If ting. American distribution for a
British film is at stake, it is ONE CONDITION hardly worth making
A slapstick comedian must not be temporarily jammed between the doors of a Tube train: the rush hour never a scramble.
13
Suicide is taboo - indeed there is no end to the list.
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If the authorities had their way, a film with railway setting would make More's Utopia look like tale of teething troubles. THEY'RE TOUCHY
The Home Office are touchy on the subject of probation offteers and
prisons,
the
At one of these parties, fan- pre-Lenten carnival seasons of fares were blown by children the days before. Communism. dressed in the scarlet and blue The mardi gras period WDS velvet uniforms
foudal always celebrated with good horaids. On another occasion dead of boisterous abandon. Just there was a fancy-dree ball in how steady, one might ask, are the Kremlin for students and these Conununist chandeliers?
of
Church Psychical Study Group
By LES ARMOUR
London. Chichester, Dr R. J. Campbell; arid Oxford
"PSYCHICAL Research" Loid Weatherhead, and an or
used to be a tople philosopher,
of which you either dismissed Price.
Professor H. H.
from An official statement a million-pound note. A story with a gentle laugh or at-
President Cyril Atkinson says: set around the fun fair at Black-tacked roundly as a pseudo. The Churches Fellowship for because scientific instrument of the Psychical Study has been formed for the express purpose of pool was abandoned
pickpocket. one of the minor characters was devil.
Ghosts, poltergeista, hob. studying the Impressive body of evidence for personal survival FRUSTRATING
goblins and the like were, after death with its implica- no doubt, amusing topics tions and bringing the subject The result of these petty for speculation or after. before Church members of all Christian denominations restrictions is a frustrating list dinner chat. But they were throughout the country." of still-born stories in British hard to take seriously. studios,
issue over a double bed. As Films about life in the for kissing, a variety of Forces, colonies, railways, positions between vertical airways, fire brigades, towns, and horizontal may be dis- industry, fun fairs and so covered by the ingenious forth all require facilities film directer.
from the appropriate autho- ritics. GREAT. JOKE
Mostly
It lo nimost impossible to touched by the extra- overcome some of the objections So the Hays Office code is
put up by the Colonial Office, Americans. On the other side helpfulness. a great joke, its latest rula ordinary
We
have
been
•
Yet some people did take the It will set up its own research No Alm
expects problem seriously. The British facilities, and it hopes to get the company authorities Society for Psychical Research theological advice of most of the co-operation from & whom it wishes to attack. But plodded away quietly, Philo main denominations and the
sophers like Cambridge's C. D.
of the best- when British people can по longer take a joke at their own Broad were bold enough to talk cientific advico
equipped investigators in the about its conclusions. And
country. expense or a breath of criticism, It is time for a little soul-scientists like J. 3, he at The body of evidence to which America's Duke University dug searching.
into strange kinds of "borderline they
"impressive," For the opposite is true of phenomena,"
fragmentary. And the field has come a long
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The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis As- sociation is entering another year in the In this great war against tuberculosis. work, the Colony is taking its part with many other nations, in the universal effort to stay the heavy wastage of human lives exacted by this grim scourge. Scientists, doctors and others specialising in the treatment of tuberculosis throughout the world have made great discoveries during the last few years, and the fruits of their labours are being made available to sufferers from this disease here in Hongkong, through The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-
tion.
Unfortunately, statistics show that the Incidence of tuberculosis in Hongkong is more wide-spread than in most other parts of the world.
This grim fact does not dishearton the H.K.A.-T.B.A. because it is constantly fortified in the knowledge that, from the generous support given by Government, charitably-minded bodies and merchant houses, down to the humble worker, it is obvious that there is a common sympathetic understanding that this is a work of mercy. which must continue.
of Film audiences like stories set of the Atlantic, authorities pro-way.
Amiotican Encyclopaedia always good for a laugh in people with no thought of in remote parts of the world. vide facilities without taking Paychology, for instance, con- suporvited
But the In theory, so do the Colonial responsibility for the finished tains a long article which con- could only come from person film circles. But have we personal gain.
facilities are Office. But there is one major product, the right to be so smug? In necessary
cedes evidence for the existence ioned. "medium" is the only on one condition, dimculty. The story must
Americans may debunk their of disembodied minds cannot be uncontroversial.
Instrument fact, there operates in this granted
of communication own institutions and frequently ignored.
so far discovered and there is. country an unseen, insidious The script must be subject
In an age when the colonies do so in lms such as "From censorship which constitutes to the blue pencil of the
always a large human element Public
Officer. are bristling with dramos und Here To Eternity." "The Snake Relations a more real threat to free There must not be a breath Maughan, Conrad and Kipling. Agreement, and many others are even more disbelieving
conflicts
aro left with Pit," "Crom-fire,” "Gentleman's socptical and mort clorgymen in the experiments.
The soone has been
clouded expression than anything
But they may be in for a jolt. further by "spiritualist groups devised by the hidebound of criticism about their roa romance between white people, We, on the other hand, as
pective institutions. There the war, and adventure storles bound and gagged.
A team of investigators has which have often resorted to Haya Office.
must not even be a joke at current administration, out of oncomitans. Film-maker The Churches Fellowship for eally exposed by the sceptics.
with an undercurrent of praise Creat drama was never made flat announced the formation of exceedingly shabbytrick Health and Happiness can be restored Who then is the culprit? their expense.
havo far grunter freedom of Paychical Study"! Not, let me haaten to add.
Still, moet scientists
aro
It will take a lot of hard work
Chauqes should be pressed and addressed?--- "HONGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION"
to many sufferers if you will
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On the other hand, Scotland expression. In the land · Among its backers are the to all in the gaps and a lot more our own British Board of A film set in the railways Yard oficials have not only co- MacCarthy than in Uberal Deans of St Paul W. H. work to wash away as the bad GIVE THAT THEY MAY Censors, with the enlighten-must show everything work operated nobly in film produc- Britain,
Mathews; a Canon, limeritus of tarte left by the tricksters,