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Brethren of all Constitutions at- tending the funeral of the late Wor. Bro. Frederick Charles Mow Fung should assemble at the junc- tion of GRAMPIAN ROAD and PRINCE EDWARD ROAD at 2.30 p.171. on Sunday. 8th Regula will not be worn.

October.

THE CHAIN OF CHANGE

The efforts of the Portu-

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1950.

A boxer tells his ring secrets--No.

FIGHTING IS MY

cam

In 1's time Jlmany, was a run- ner, amateur boxer, tand footbal· kr, and was ong of the first to In- terest Canadians in soccer when. he started il

nt Windar, Ontario, No one has worked Larder for charitable causes, an-1 fer me the world would or a bet

had a few ter place fr Jimony Murphyr

By Ted Broadribb

LIFE

Carter, and arranged, that, the daten should be spread over two yours instead of one.

Money lost

Taipeh recelyes more loyalty petitions signcu" in, blood.

Some people, of course, are more sanguinary about the Nationalista chaces than others.

He went to court with his arm in joslug end in, promotional gam-

Mahila claim that. Hong Kong a sling: Actually, he was'te baker,bies inyself, and I should think

gang of visa and worked for me only to earn the people who end up on the f

Wilson's first show featured is sheltering a are the exception, Tel Kid" Lewis and Johnny forgers. money for his family while ha right sido

rather than the rule.

Basham, and that lost money tos, was incapacitated.

At least, that's any view after but only a small amount. When the magistrate expressed It wasn't my only associations surprise at a street bookmaker having been close to most of the that with Birmingham,

note

time, however,

already arranged,

We uted to be vis-a-vis, now By It's visa viec..

advance

A few years) with a brutten arm, he said "Pm | men whose names have

spelt biASID for the Beckett-Moray

earlier, when I was making anot

book, I bet beside a Birminghun | bake, 29ły a bookmaker-I'm a boxing back to the line of tho

mal, Steve Quinn, For me lus was bookmaker and a half. He could bet with a piece of chalk-he didn't need money.

Then I opened up another place

cd

in Camberwell, and a third in ing he came to my house and Camberwell Gate, and some time wanted to borrow money. later opened oflees in Walworth. I asked if he had anything for

sceurity. he

gave me a poner and the

Fur "International

road.

to

.I{

persuaded all the put he tookc

it

were

At

"Soldiers' inke over gas plants No, Myrtle, it was last month

of Cominous,

a

Magazine writer predicts "MacArthur line" in North Korea, considerable Thus showing

even Magination, One might call this a geek-freed line.

It all came to a full stop when A PRAY and nøked for £100. Around that time Stuart Law- the boards and saying "Joe, get; regular fine on all types who foll

in, and everything was in UK." Then

go back to baking." hest world war.

Boon after the end of that con- rosy. Moran won inside two was told--and fined five shillings illet, Major Arnold Wikon came rounds, but when they met again |

I was at the Old Bailey

ir

the picture.

C. B, Cochran on October 12, 1922, the, custo. troops invested the new House another occasion. No-don't get how Sir Charles had a can-mers had a yeal humdinger. The I did. witch was exactly why me wrong-I was a witness. On tract with Joc Beckett to flight contest lasted only seven rounds I had my real fling, at bookmaking night when I referted some fight Frank Moran, who hadn't signed. before the referce stopped, it in it the infedle twenties. It began at Hoxton Baths, a mu tume and He had all but signed Pete Her- Beckett's favour, but they were when a local pin in East Street dat beside the and offered me si man to meet Jimmy Wilde, too. seven of the most blistering with rounds I have ever seen, or am Walworth, making an S. P. book. Uit home. He walked with a limp but there was difficulty

so Cochran ever likely to see.

188 couldn't pay out, so I gave buck and told me he had been wound-Herman's manager,

fly-by-

he In the war. It was

quit boxing and fold Beckett

but he collected Jae woll

aswalion all the sinke money to his cust-acquaintance. but several | could have the contract back, and split lip, a broken nose, a mers and took, over his pitet. Ick later, on a Sunday morn= { tiey. Would forgot all about it,

cat und pain in the pinny from then that I sus

Police, have to 'spend a lot of Wilson to carry on, I told him one stage he

well have losty

time going round arresting street the Beckett-Moran fight would for he was down on the canvis, teepers. Wouldn't it be ensler

didn't be such a winner that

wus no business although i

it Legco passed a law imposing a nded any money

promote .to

11. of mine, I couldn't resist

lot rupping chce had booked the Royal up, he's going-get up

He to achieve a 'living wage? Albert Hall for 12 shows for

10, suelt effect that they had to Boxing Night, 1019.

lead the American becouse ho Port of America's "mothball" blt: figure, and he ran his first aid get up, and finished the job

in IOU on a postcard.

Ted

Lewis

and Matt couldn't see his way out of the fleet puts out to sen ngoln. The next week a girl was mur¬ Wells, described at that time as building.

This will be cold camphor. to a miniature edition of Jim

150 "Wilson's star shone in the the Commos, dered. There was, evidence tha

which he stole £5 from a girl, and when Jeffries, put up a show

from Plomotorial firmament until that I saw his picture in the papers compensated

lacked in night when Tommy Gibbons and We told my friends "He's the fellow both men what it

in Jack Bloomdeld were matched

young coupl Past log a fiver from me finesse. American bantamweight, at Wembley.

It meant a lot to Eugene me.

I had almost, half the bill

sheltering in a doorway on the "during yesterday's intents and purposes it was a fool-last week I was

the nolice, and was able to hand Criqul Akron Flash proof set-up.

the over του as proof of i

Griffiths boni French middle- Cops in hearse

make sure that everything was downpour, a correspondent heard Francis Charles and right. was a witness weight So it was that

storted work the day the girl say bashfully, "Oh, John,

arrange the this is so sodden!? One day a hearse came slowly in a case in which a man was on Georges Carpentier boxed

before helping to trial for murder. The man wati] exhibition. with his Belgian seating, wolkol all through the down the road. No one took any

sparring partner, Jules Lenaers. night fixing up the ring and the

really night, Quite a

for lighting- except the promoter, everyone

the polict, who were trying tu pick

up people for street betting. got the better of us in Kinkston Street, Walworth. There 1 had couple of men operating in a read

on which it was impossible for the police to get within about 70' yards unobserved. The two men used to operate from the outside of a house, and under cover of

window-shutters.

118

open

My wke, my guide and philoso- pher, as ever, told me to love nothing to do with tuulis lent himit it, and even

me an

In courage

guese authorities to streng used to pay the rent, and to all who borrowed advised to fell Pal Moore, met France Tonny with my fighters, and wanted to Pṛaya

for a souvenir.

notice. It can closer, and still-Runald True. I certainly burn no move was made. It stopped. Into 'em. Strangest thing, though. and a number of top-hatted menfe that it was only as I was wrk- got out. Too late the men found ing this that I realised I neve

even tried to get back the 10U out that they were not under- takers' assistants but policemen,

That instead of charging them What H belung-that's strect was, for the shutters were only. rod for cover and none of the people who placed hets went in- ride-they were charged with keeping a betting house.

will

The men were aned the maximum of £100, but, worse than that, both of them were committed to the Old Halley for perjury. One was found not guilty, but the other was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

How different from another man who worked for me and wha was picked up for street betting.

Precarious business

un

who last a packel. He sout fur thing, I

way

Whenever

can't

sleep.

you thought, Then the crash come swallow a large glass of whisky Wilson went bankrupt,

and, It won't make you sleep, but me and asked what I thought

"Cut your

on The you'll feel quite satisfied to stay ought to do.

needless to say, I was

1. gave awake, was my answer, something I've losing end once more.

what I could spare to had to say on a number of occa-

fighters my sions singe to various people, and compensate for their loss, and

осса-

I had however, a. Stoker luck he wasn't

The Civil Lord had to postpone If there's anything more pre- he agreed it was the best course, wrote off another chapter ending his trip to the Colony, it was,

So I took Wilson to see Law-with a word with which carious than fight promoting, don't want to know it. I've seen rence, and suggested that he come face to face before"skint" caught in the typhoon.

go-some should allow Wilson to take his (broke). better of Anancially than when remaining dates off his hands. they began and others infinitely We went to the Albert Hall to the. then manager, Hilton foorer. I've even been on the see

promoters come and

THE STATE OF

(To be continued)

EUROPE

cen-

A

Enchanted.

"British prestige and British etatesmanship remain fairy high of the Chinese In the esteem intelligentsia."

Who will no doubt write a legend' in, our honour, and suggest an annual holiday to remember

.

These floating mines bring no Joy to the UN naval commander.

then the local Portuguese community's cultural ties with to be the motherland are commended. The retiring Consul for Portugal, in his statement on Portugal's Na- tional Day, dealt with what is a difficult and delicate sub- ject in a spirit of tact and understanding. He said quite truly that he has worked hard during his period of office here to help the local Portuguese community to preserve their identity as Portuguese.

If there is one trait more distin- than another which guishes the Portuguese it is their tenacity, and their loyal ties-qualities which form the core of the history of the ancient little Colony of Por-

The diplomatic conferences exists. Until Europe exists they Owing to a series of historical us by:

accidents, Europe became the real tugal which they regard as

of the world in, the in New York have produced have no faith for which to fight."

One of the striking phrases) centre their natural home, and, for that matter, of the oldest al- mained to them. So much so dramatic results. America is most used by champions of the eighteenth and nineteenth

In Oklahoma a man named into the same liance ever known. But it is that one seldom hears any-sending more troops to West Council of Europe is that they tuples. The Industrial Revolution

"to

Europe" began there. Europe thought up the problem Europe. The way is being have with the larger considerations thing about

"Europe" is the new political the ideas which

became pre- Coffey broke

restaurant three times.. It ex-.

Obviously wanted a place where we are concerned' at the mo- nowadays. They carry on in opened for the creation of a house which the separate nations dominant in the world.

tended its political' influence, and ment, not cultural nuances. much the same way as before, West European army. In

also its direct rule, over much of he could feel at home. Asio. Dr. Brazao proclaimed his preserving

But this phrase is now ended. conviction that there is de-

The most important events of the finitely a place in Asia for the

In America, Generul Bradley

mid-twentieth century has been descendants of the old Portu-

has said that he is now conâdent

the emancipation of Asia from guese pioneers. In spite of

that West Europe can be de-

European-control, and the growth the tumultuous upheaval of For a long time to come that tended. It is of course too soon

political and economic power they cun. ull live in safety.

upset utterly ali our age, we believe that state will also be true, we feel surc, to feel any genuine confidence and have to build, and in which alone of America as a country, with

that West Europe has This political movement aims which have of the Portuguese community to say

systems previous ment to be profoundly true.

political. But there is now at at an ultimate economic union, been saved. Those who have lived in here in Hong Kong.

least the strong possibility that

balance. citizenship, European common

Look at West Europe, say these India, in Burma, in Malaya, Colony, whatever its auspices, it will be saved. The same could and, presumably the free move-

What has it to offer? their crfiles, in Indonesia or in is destined long to, remain as not have been said two years ago. ment of people

Is it more . It is Important to distinguish Hong Kong during the past a great centre of finance and

between two sets of events, which national frontiers. It is these What is its unity?

the than a new Balkans? This line of five years know the travail of commerce. It is not apart

thought can of course be carried been happening in West thing, which, according to mind and spirit that the vast from the mainland, but it is Europe. They iss-cross with champions of federation,

West Europe, it the military much too far. make a reality.of

is included, has still on which would changes in those countries definitely not a part of it in one another but are

the created, among

large the deepest sense of its own One is the setting up of the mili- aliances of the Atlantic Pact.

It, if alliances tary defence, alliances which be. Unless there is a federation of

Europe, the military communities of mixed des- mission and individuality. In gan with the Brussels Pact and will have no force behind them. very great weight in world affairs. There will be body but no soul, But is there any hope of real The direction they the century before us the culminated in the Atlantic Fact.

It is because i ought to take for sheer self-fundamental changes of struc- In organising these alliances,

That is the argument of the political unity? Great Britain and the United statesmen who are leading the they are sceptical that so many just when we should be making preservation was the subject ture will lead inevitably to

have been the prime movement, They are, themselves British people prefer to look for of intense and sometime des- far closer contacts between movers. It 35 these military divided into two groups. One their future. In closer union with

Commonwealth political the pairing controversy. The dis- East and West-of which the acts which hold out, for the short wants

straight-out

cent..

make

their identity, this, if present trends con-' By "Windrush,'

their interests, and their liveli- tinue, there will ultimately hood. It is true some have be a German contingent. gone to other lands, but most have stayed.--

This

have.

States

separate.

special correspondent

P

across.

w

of

Ratsal patentia united, a

give

cussion was not circumscrib-local community are doubly a period and the immediate future, federation between the countries America.

the best hope of keeping the of West Europe. The other

and

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Countries will not be actually road very roots of existence. Those the

which EnglandThe second set of events is the

attempt at building West Europe felerated, but now internationa who have read John Paris's pioneered at the beginning of into some form of political unity agencies will be created to dis

functions, charge specifie "Kimono" will never forget the industrial age. Those who which should go far beyond im-

these will be "supra-national the mordant and almost brut- were thought dead are becom-mediate defence purposes. The

focus

of this attempt is the authorities Agglo

The al eloquence of his passage ing alive again. If one thinks Council of Europa at Strasbourg, federationists and the function- between the describing the lot of those of for a moment of the mag The impetus in these, events comes alists was at one time sharp. But mixed birth. It was fine writ nitude of the industrial re-from the countries of West Europe the last session of the Council of ing, but it was at best a half-volution in the United States, themselves or at least from the Europe in August, was chiefly, use

more clear-sighted pact of,' their truth, all the more affecting or, to come nearer home, in electorates. The United States groups reliching a certain measure because of the environment Japan, he will get some idea gives a benevolent blessing but is groups reaching a certain measure

of compromise. in which this description was of the mighty transformation not actively engaged. About the

Lukewarm Britain British attitude, more must be that is destined to happen ald later in this article. cast.

This conflict was in any case of The circumstances are difin China. Two or three de

The

molives lying behind the less, importance than the differ ferent in the case of the cades ago Sir Charles Addis drive to make reality of the

Coun enco

of opinion between the Portugueso communities in might have believed in Sunel of Europe are described very European movement as a whole

vividly visions

ind

and the Brush socialist govern a recent letter to the and the Far East: They form, in Yat-sen's

few times by. Mt. Robert, Boothby-mont, Great Britain is in general fact, a community of their others did, oven among M Mr. Boothby is a member of the most lukewarm of the coun own, distinctive in all the es the Chinese themselves. But Parliament who is well-known for tries of West. Europe about a sential things, bound fast by ideas are different now. The his close association with Mr. European union. It fears, that i

Winston Churchill.“ Her says, there were federation Great Britain would get dragged deeper riage among themselves, by of the United States today, the most powerful politieab

wishes. their religion, and by their and of Germany before what the nineteenth century names. Most of them could go war, give some idea of what three parts dead in to such powerful Portuguese, must be expected of China as Europe, for the simple reason that 14.' has falled to provide either strongholds as Brazil and find the decades pass.

security or economie well-being

delegates nothing strange about it ex- Not even an extreme de for the people

blingly cept", perhaps far wider velopment of State trading the exception of frontiers and an environment will prevent a still greater try represented in the Council of "This British say.

and Sweden, ovary coun- the oynaud.

'Go ahead, you!! different from what they meeting of the races than Europe has been compressed and French, and build the houso know here

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language, by repeated mar- annual trade and productionThe Hasic fact is that natione, Into European affairs than it)

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