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BOXING "AT HOME. WORLD'S BANTAM-WEIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP.

accounts of the match for the world's

Son of the critics express surprise at the decision and think that Moore won, but of us will be content to accept the verdict of Mr. Corri, who is prob ably the most experienced refere in the world. M. Stephen Black, ex amateur Boxing champion of South Africa, writes in the Haily Express tem

By

and a cold courage Wilde held on stayed at the fight, to receive a sur prising decision. He was fought to standstill by a boxer who has the most

SINGAPORE FINANCIER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

ALLEGED CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST

Coll

cussed at the set, and this was fixed at Mr. E. Manuel standing

as vail,

mwili hot-work and effective defense } ber failing that. niter three months,

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THE TRIAD SOCIETY CASE.

D. CURING · HIDES. WHOLESALE DEALER SUMMONED. INTERESTING EXPERT EVIDENCE.

'.

At the Magistracy, yesterday, the hearing was eminued of the case in

being members of a Trind Society which right Chillese are charged with

Mp. Mok Lai Chee, Hendraaster of the Morrison English School, an-authority-.

At the Magistracy yesterday, be WEEDE MOORE CONTEST DESCRIBED.

| Euro Me (N=L2Suilt?, a Chipear was sum The preliminary inquiry, lato. l'apers to hand by the mail give full charges of criminal breach of trust pro, 7. Sai On Terror, without a licence thenon the sturing and cleaning hides as

·ferred against Mr. Harold Latham, uris from the Sanitary Board. lantan-weight championship in London.ing out of his public examination. Mr. W. E. F. Shenton ring for on July 17th, between Jimmy Wilde and bankrupter at which Mr. Justice Word Fasteniänt, said his client's firm-yas Trind Societies, gave expet evi lenery. Pat Moore, the American, who was the ward passed some serious stricturës upoù holder. As announced in the cable, Wilde the conduct of Mr. “Eatham-wasi

of twenty fer, which were farge whole- describing the significance with y

found on the defendants' premises he received Mr. Eugene Corri's decision tinted before the Third Magistrate, dealer

BTY. cow-hides," and it

of the account books was divided into twa on points at the end of a fierce contest. Singapore, on August 26th. In the event is not the practie of the Government Then had to make st. 4lbs., and theat rouuittal, the butter of bail was dis issue Bernges to these people. He had sections-ane recording the mates of the wonderful Wilde, who is well under eight

"cou 3lr, Crikson, the Hindi of the Sani.

ok! members and the amount their zary Hepartment, and it been informed ing with members on the waitlist..

subscriptions: the other stone, was giving over, ten pounds away

seccione Bal to the hest bantum the United States could produce,

phate licences would be issuedi The One page contained the quantity of melon Before proceeding with the case, the Board did not object" ta hides importad seeds given to each member. These melon Deputy Public Prosecutor raised the frin Any and Santos, being cleaned,avde were used in connection with "the point that the principal complainant. Caps. Wisnes, a sea captain, was nayar vbjected to hides purchased at the admission of new members that was to from the Cony and therefore would not focal slzaghterhosse. be able to attend He had been to pr

Hi, instructions say, if the Committee picked up only sector aban; tour days ago on his

were that his client mily deals in importa certain mumber of seeds the new exadis in Singapore and given a statement of ed "hites, which, during the dry season.date would i akuitted. The man wolf

his arrival what he intended to say in left the Clony the next morning and had to be salted to prevent rotting. This then have to pay a sum of money cheers

court. before departing, told the prosector he might return within the month of SeptemĮ rozail dealer purchased some of the hides The Chinese characters Hong Lan, bound

was done inside the building, and when a ponding to the melon seeds picked up to inmine Young Ahearn used to be called the Dancing Ma

Mr. Seth would like to know whether Bisho took them outside the premises and in the neebant hooks, were the name of Master Fal Moore is the real dancing master, for his end friend would insist on the

Cap tain's

cleated off the salt. It was, therefore, the Trind Society and an expressioË. presence in the lower

if be fest move ob fashily, but feculd not attend the metassizes, he retail dealers. His client was ever ready the Society as a chay contained numer

gave an undertaking that if the Captain unt the fault of his client but that of the either good hiek puzzled by

or fate. A disr url by curious fagot

and times missed

would get special nssizes fixed for the badly, He

intenced reame, which would be later than the end

ous characters, all pointing to the fact the decision, but again I my. Moure had of the

that this way n.Trind Society. 1. the the better of a battle that will live in the

"for the defendant, adreýd Sanitary Inspector Wood stated that centre of the chup as a triangle with th Pugilistic annals of England.

Before to

the suggestion, and the ease proceded, the cleaning of hides was not allowed word Ga. which was used when up- the twen

each other, betting was 3

chief Wild with odds of 3 to 4 offered Yalps, to i on

witness

called was Mr. (5, 0. that the tuntest would not last ten rounds.

assistant official assignee, who pro- within a certain ares,

pealing for subscriptions. The wofils dured After four rounds the odds veered, and

records dealing with Mr. the

Mr. Shenton replied ther his client | Dea were paly used by the officiated Lathan's statements of affairs and public towards the end Moore was favourite.

examination and quoted

the Society, and meant that if a number AOCIAL ARRAY AT RINOSIDE, Ther

of a lydge left and entered another b was an extraordinary social the

the public examination of debtor. array at the ringside, which vividly re called the pre-war splendour of the Parishe said he thought accused's present

was very useure; it might mean any- Crs examined by Mr. Knowles, wit

woutti have to pay Of Ca. The meaning ring The

Presence the Prince of Wates had n

position was due to loss on two or three

thing The man whose name appeared amose stimulating effect on share ventures, extravaging, drawings. the audient, and when he arrived with lack of supervision, and failure in bal-

seventh on the list had to do a lot of his brothers, Prines Albert and Pring

ancing

work for the Society, practically do Public Prosecutor pat in

showed that when a feast took place, th menint labour." The subscription lists

member had to subscribis enkes, nulonsy | oil, josssticks, etc. A quotation the: choji meant: When the Henties stop. the earth censes." That, however, was not a classid quotation, although horg a special significance

Mr. Smith remanded the case.

round, and this sumazing last hearing of the case as soon the Captain to get a licenes" if the leard would grant |

Henry, the house burst into a clamour ef loyal

applause, Cineral Pershing, ton, had royal reception, and occupied a seat in the royal box. Around the ring chiserved celebrities by the score-Lord Lonsda

Lord Desborough, Mr. Solly Joel. Sir Alfred Bust, Sir Henry Dalziel, Mr. Georg R. Sims, Mr. Bottomley, and party of prominent sportsmen, Alice Delysia was there, radiant and autiful. In alt more than 18.000

people saw the contest. It was not until ten o'clock that. the contest began. Wilde looked fitter and bigger than I had ever and his amazing recovery seen him before,

in the last rounds, proved that he was fit to fight for his life! No weights were LAROunced,

ed, but, Moore apparently minde the bantam limit comfortably.

On the other band Mr. Arthur Pollen

in the Evening Standard:

BAYS 10

1.

the whale ground unsely, cover did not enter the hides. It was the retail

The Counts,

during

copy of the statement nude by Wisnes, after which accused was charged that between September, 1917. and June, 1:15. Ee, being intrusted with certain suns,

.925 0s belonging to Capt. Wisnes and 842,256.45 belonging to Capt. Jorgensen. did commit criminal breach of trust with respect to the said property.

Reserving his defence, areused was cora- mitted to take his trial at the Assize

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WHY NOT WELCOME RACK

eaters, and they had licences.. His client

licence was granted to him, and, there had not infringe any regulation, as no

fare, there were no conditions.

The case was remanded.

CHINESE YOUTH AND INDIAN

CONSTABLE

A BOW IN SPRING GARDEN LANE.

At the Magistracy, yesterday," Chinese youth was charged with assault. ing Indian P.-e Ba

[i-1]).

Complainant stated that at about 11,45 on Tuesday night, while he was on duty in Spring Garden Lane, be aoticed a crowd of Chinese surrounding house in which there were some sailors. He ordered them to disperse, whereupon defendant said: Yuu --danmed fool, you have no business here." Witness wind defendant, who thereupon abuseri him and natched his whistle.

An.

THE GERMANS 7 -4 THEIR INFLUENCE IN EGYPT.. In a letter to The Timer discussing the causes of Egyptian unrest, It was at once the longest and the sys-The main source of the disease Pimlashi" shortest hour and a half that many there line, I submit, been omitted-namels, the had ever known. At the cad of the sixthermanic origin of Egyptian, and for round several who thought themselves that matte other, unnat HAPPY HIT good judges gave Moore two, &t most three, anore rounds in which to win.

No esident in Egypt or student of The heat semed to have combined with the latina con continue fabled to potace Moore's terrific

intimate existing between broken the the littles Wa Punching to havn

a third threw big truncheon against the Welshman altogether. It look- agitator, professional and otherwise, ed as if the Albert Hall verdict had been in Egypt and the Germans. The associates wall and broke it. Thesmen then can

been of the late Khedive were, to a great ex right, yet at the time it seemed preposter-tent, ferman, or of Cherman sympathies but he chased defendant and

Then en me the first and most drama. The inte Mustafa Kamalthe surprise. In the seventh

Wilde

pro tagonist of the 10 called Nationalist move feinting, covering and jumping clear as too!

hands. His newspaper

CIGARETTES

IT'S TOASTED.

Found

had frgained his pace, was dodging ment in man ly and simp

it was obvious that Wild was

in

GIRL DRUGGED AND KIDNAPPED.

TAKEN TO

MACAO AND OFFERED "FOR SALE

EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS.

At the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon,

her man wrized witurs's wrist, while before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Mr. Lee Long.

ressed him.

The defendant stated that it was the Constabl. who assaulted his and used abusive language..

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Sergeant „Cockle stated that every

notte. Awistant Crown Solicitor, made an application, on behalf of the Custom authorities, fur the extradition of "" Chinese charged with kidnapping a girl. It appeared that the girl, who is 18 years of age," was living in a village beyond the New Territory with beg par ents. One evening a widow invited far to

much the best of it. He was foxcing agent, Count Oppenheim. Again, the right a crowd of Chinese elected at her house to assist in some swing, and

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many

1 his opponent had scored nothing in office was established next door to and The Real Burley Clgarette prious round. More than this,

in close association with, the German

Bernstr. and the notori friends as well as his enemy were to think majority of the hers

oda, Baron Max him henten. Of course, he had led the Tommittee of a bad

hers of the Turkish and Progress, 2 attack from the first, and he led to the whom were in close Leaison with the Inst. Even in the sixth round, when our extreme wing in Cairo and Alexandria, hopes went low, it was. Wilde who was Liter Moore most of the time, not Moore less.

Were German

The open League was full |

nothing more after Wilde

From first to last it was clear in this. whenever there has been

of German influences. Wherever

Hern, that whether his business is to at, find the band of Gence before the iu all ther of Wilde's fights that I have disturbance it has usually beind it. w possible tack or to defend, to finish or to gain. The octopus of German time, it is Wilde's method to impose his own strategy on his opponent. One had country in its tentacles, and methods of war had already begun to envelop the been taught to expect that, even in an extremity.

Wilde's defensive would he

Dermeation were singularly easy-and, offensive.

though, since the war. German agency to some extent has been scotched, it has not been killed.

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Spring Garden Lane and Pered at the girls. If a poliesman. interiered he was simply laughed at.

Mr. Lindsell fined defendant 85 and bound him over in a personal bond of haviour for six months. 11, the security and a security of 830 to be of good be

were not furthcoming he would have to go to prison for 14 days.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF BLASTING POWER.

the girl went, At the widus's house lived her brother, who immediately fell in love with the girl He offered her a

drank it she fell down unconscious. The drugged, cup of tea, and when the girt

brother to convey the girl to 'junk, where widow, it is alleged, then assisted her

she was imprisoned and taken to Macao, On the way the girl screamed out fur amistance, and the man pointed a dagger In the rounds that followed the spirit

at her and threatened to kill her. He and pace bi the Welshman's work was no

also forced her to drink a cup of tea astonishing that one wondered if the

which was drugged and she was rendered tables had not been turned with a venge- was palpably safe from being knocked out At the Magistracy. yesterday,

nce. Then the fortunes of war arcmed himself, was most unrecognisable, slow,

a unconscious. Chinese was charged with being in un-

At Macao the defendant to change again. And in the 18th. round hunted, unable to attack, almost unable lawful possession of a quantity of blast rented a cubicle and then informed thở, Wilde, with a bleeding nose, seemed, three to defend. And there was Wilde, fresher, ing powder and a fuse,

inistresses of the houses of ill-fame there or four times to pause and stagger, sicker, more aggressive than at bay pre Defendant was found on the Taipo that he had a pretty girl for sale. The if it was beyond his powers to

avert from

mvious stage. Moore is physically o Rand, by an Indian constable, carrying a himself the fate he had dealt out to splendid by pe. His forty, previous opponents In the 19th. the armourmakers say of steel plates When asked where be got it, defendant and arrangements were made for the re- figure of merit as parcel containing the powder and fuse. - girl was inspected, a bargain was struck, round Moore tried his very hardest to

battleships-was just too

moval of the girl. One" afternoon, bow- Wit He ushed Wilde

much for Wilde's factor of person replied that he bought it from my at twice, employing kind .of dancing gait, bis

Yaumati. This man, however, proved to ever, while her captor went out to make But though Wilde could not knock hit arns wing- ing almost, wind-mill fashion, One felt out his lightning lefts to the chin, so be a myth, and then the defendant told acme purchases, she escaped into the be would have like to have yelled. It wilt and sudden

the constable he got the powder from a street. Moore could nei

Greatly to her surprise, and wa: a masauvre he had employed ence ther dodge nor guard them, had one boatman. Enquiries showed that there pleasure she met her brother and told him cr twice before, each time with some nuc-

their work. cess. Obvious attack that was coming.

wug no such boatman Moore was beaten, but he

as described by everything. The "couple went to the the Welshman could not could keep his feat. And he kept them defendant, who then changed his story to Governor of Macus and informed him of judge the kind

through those last three dreadful minutes. nor its direction. He had been driven

the effect that a constructor gave him the what had occurred, but the Police there it was, in all respects, a really great powder to use for blasting purposes.

were unable to capture the defendant, to cover each time and each time had been fight. Looking back and hit once, twice, thrice and

The contractor, when questioned, denied who escaped to Hongkong. The rirl fol and forgetting. for severely. But the

and this. adding that he had no permit for lowed him to Hongkong with he, br ther fears, it is easy to you that it was Wilde' tactics. Before

fle covered as fight from the beginning to the end. Of therefore, there was no necessity for him arrested.

fair hits on vital points that told and to stock the powder. again he

gut bim. But this time did their work, he must have scored two, was Wilde, not Moore, who scored,

Defendant stated that a man whom he It if not three, to Moore's

ODE element that we had come to set. Just strength and weight that saved him from

Mr. Linde fined defendant $20. when things were at the worst, when what had befallen the greater part of fent seemed a matter of a moment, the Wilde's previous opponents. And it was mastery, which only such a motient could his superior strongth and weight that led make possible, appeaking that Wilde was getting the best of, it when really; The round end-one again and again to think that be

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by the Ch. round he had measured the moment, the drama of one's hopes blasting, only for removing stones, and 1 met her farmer captor, and had him value of core thought that ance

was the supreme instance of the third indeed only Moore's very Bently did not know.gave him the powder.

ed with thousa had been very clever to escape defent be was not How many saw that he had almoet ensur

cd the knock-out that is the unquestion

ed proat of

victory

WILDE THE MARTER,

A CHALLENGE.

superior

THE PIRACY THAT DID NOT OCCUB

At the Magistracy, yesterday, the caretaker of the Asiatic Petroleum Com pany's launch at Shamsuipa was charged with stealing three-electrie-fan-belong men were charted with receiving the

It was, of course, the events of the pen- in the Coons, challenges may Feather owing to the Company,, while two other

-Kid-Danding of Manila who is now ultimate that made possible the most Light-weight boxer in the Colony (no Batonishing round of all, the twentieth. Long

barred), Teddy Neal (Young

stolen-fans on their junk,

The case was remanded,

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ALLEGED WOMEN SMUGGLERS.

At the Magistracy, yesterday, two Chinese women were charged with being in unlawful possession of 30 rounds of aramunition and a quantity of fureci opium labels.

Mr. F. X. d'Almada, appearing for the defendants applied for a short remanil en nominal buil

the ground that the women were extensive smugglers. The sum of $2.000 was sug

The Police breed for heavy bail on

gerted,

From the first to the last of w 1128) preferred. Danding has a big fol This is the case of the unrourker" who r d'Almada stated that his clients,

was all over his man." The who in the previous three rounds had lowing in Manila, having fought. Big semed incomparably the stronger, who etc., Dalton. (1) is considered the best Cortez, Jack Dalton (1). Young Probasco, if he could not in fact, knock Wilde out, American Light-weight in the Philip- {l'ontinued at jont of next column.) pines, but Danding took his measure.

with the object of diverting suspicion from and that the launch had been pirated. himself in alleged to have circulated

Mr. Lindell remanded the ense, as the Company desired to instruct a solicitor,

world not be able to furnish such heary to remain in prison bail, and, as a consequence, would have Mr. Smith fixed bail at $2.000 for one defendant and at $1,500 for the other.

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