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BOXING.

WHO WILL WIN!

THE DEMPSEY-CARPENTER HATTLE

Brilliant weather favoured the opening of the Northern Parliament in Never, in the history of the boxing the Belfast City Hall, whose entrance was strongly guarded by police and game, a sport that extencback in military.. Viscount Fitzalan, the Viceroy, replying to an address by the America to the days of 1816, wher City Corporation, earnestly hoped that the hour of peace and podwill had the first championship fight was WOR arrived which would be the forerunner of happiness and prosperity for by Jacob Hyer over logits Ireland. He was then escorted to the Council Chamber where all the Beasley, has a heavy-weight contest Unionist members were present. The Sinn Fein and Nationalist members for the world's title given signs of were absent. Major Hugh O'Neill was unanimously elected Speaker attracting the attention of all the | Members then took the oath and Sir James Craig announced the Cabinet people as the twelve-round match to namely, Sir Dawson Bates, Home Secretary: Mr. H. M. Pollock, Minister of Saturday, July, between Gorg

he hell in Jersey (t. N ...on Finance the Marquess of Londonderry, Minister of Education: M M Carpentier and Jack Dempsey, Andrews, Minister of Labour; and Mr. E. M. Archdale, Minister of Agulture. SirJames Craig at a subsequent tuncheon announced that the

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An encircling movement by military supported by aeroplanes at Mills street County Cork, ended in a battle in which three members of the Republican Army were killed and twelve wounded. A hundred fully equipped men were captured. The casualties of the Crown Forces were slight. Operations continue,

EMPIRE'S COTTON NEEDS:

CHURCHILL ON EGYPT'S IMPORTANCE.

LONDON, June

Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at the British Cotton Growing Association at Manchester declared that in spite of steady progress the Empire still had only a 40th of the cotton needed to keep the hungry mills fully active. A formidable fact now was that America was consuming her owa cotion crop. He advocated the location and development of supplies within the Empire and deplored the neglect to develop our tropical poses sions in the past 20 years. He urged the application of scientific apparatus as a remunerative investment, also the development of intermperial trade both in the tropical dependencies and the Dominiorse British Government were devoting £1,000,000 to encourage cotton growing within the Empire."

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It is more that a championship bout with merely the title involved.

of the highest rank, On the one hand there is Jack Dempsey. an America, in whose veins Bows, the blood of those original Americans, the Indians. Deinpsy is the undis- pited champion of the world, who will into that ring on a hot July day with everything at stake.

On the other hand we have fleurges Carpentief a Frenchman to the very tips of his fingers, the idol of his. countrymen, and the heavyweight champion of Europe: un honour that rightfully belongs to him as the con- queror of The Reckett in an English ring "

GEORGES A POPULAR HERO, For years the United States has held supremacy in hoxing circles. Not since the days of Bob Fitzsimmons who came unknown into San Francis the country with his ringmanship, from faraway Australia and electrified |

has a foreign contestant flashed strongly indorsed by his perform across the horizon with his credentials

anres as Georges Carpentier.

Referring,

Mesopotamia, Mr. Churchill boy, who fought.. his way through He is no flake of the ring, this French grudged the enormous military expenditure entailed and hoped to show the war with the same dash and dering a speedy reduction, but we were determined to bepour our obligations that he had previously manifested He dwelt on Egypt's cotton growing importance, but stated that affairs in the boxing game. Georges has there were hampered by 'political instability which he hoped would soon become honestly by his own champion- terminated. Their relations with Egypt must undergo a change. ship and there will be thousands to THE DANISH CHINESE COMMERCIAL CO. LTD. They must do all in their power to secure an honourable status for the claim him, in person or in spirit, Egyptian people, but their work in Egypt was not finished. He did noting, shakes hands with the champion. when he steps to the center of the think the time had yet come for the British armies to be withdrawn. Mobs and prepares for the attack. in Cairo and 'Alexandria would make short work of the European and foreign population, and the great construction toil of forty years of British administration.

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There have been other champion-{ ship fights where interest has run high and feeling intense, but go back. over the history of all and you will discover nothing to measure up with this coming battle of all battles. PICTURESQUENESS AT NEW ORLEANS There was picturesqueness, to be sure, when the unknown Corbett from In a paper read before the Colonial Institute, Sir John Findlay, Colonial the little known Pacific Coast, strode Secretary of New Zealand, advocated some form of definite imperial federa-1. Sullivan in 1892 to dance and jab into the ring with the mighty John tion and urged Britain to make an unequivocal announcement in this sense himself to fame and fortune.

HOW TO COMBINE INDEPENDENCE WITH UNITY

LONDON, June 7.

at the premiers' conference. Sir John Findlay endeavoured to meet dissen True there proved excitement id tients with this view by declaring that the genius of our nation might no little regret on the part of San DEVELOPING & PRINTING safely be left to solve the enigma of how to combine the fullest inde Fransisans The Ruby Robert Fitz

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LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS:

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LONDON, June 7. Replying to the League of Nations recommendation to limit expenditure armaments, Mr. Wellington Koo, in a note to the Secretary-General, declares that China, is in complete, sympathy with the spirit of the recom

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Years later, this sure Jinu Jeficies, grown unduly heavy with his long layoff, and Jack Johnson, the grin- ning black, by that time the title- holder, attracted what was then a record crowd at Reno. Yet the edga was gone by reason Áf the light between black and white and he prejudice that engendered.

Johnson and Flynn drew only a scattering audience in Las Vegas, New Mexico and when Jess Williard won from Johnson in Havana, Cube, the interest was largely perfunctory

TOLEDO BOUT FELL FLAȚA Tex Rickard tried to arouse world wide attention with Willard and Dempsey at Toledo, where he built a stupendous arent to accommodate the throng he had expected. It was too soon after the war, railroad

The by-election was necessitated through Mr. Walter Long being facilities were far from the beat for raised to the peerage.

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big excursion parties and while there was interest in many ways the match fell flat.

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