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2 Telephone, Holborn 6510. THE EVENING STANDARD. Monday, March 19, 1923. McTIGUE'S NEXT FIGHTS. CARPENTIER AND TODD AS POSSIBLE OPPONENTS.

THE CASE OF SIKI. HIS TITLES AND A TECHNICALITY NO MORE WHITE OPPONENTS. Mike McTigue, the new light-heavyweight champion of the world, may now meet Carpentier for a contest in London in the middle of May. A fight between Todd and MeTigue is also expected. The problem of Siki, that most unlucky negro, has now been, if not solved, at least definitely shelved.

And his finale (writes a special representative who less watched dramatic, the fight though in from ringside) was not quite a different way, than his spectacular arrival as a world's champion. What a setting it was for a fight- only Siki and MeTigue could have played up to it. But, indeed, the contest, the cause of so much commotion, was the least thrilling event of Dublin's St. Patrick's Day. Inflexible Plan.

inflexible plan was defence, and nothing Siki could do would shake him from it. From first to last the Irishman used his right no more than half a dozen times -he broke his thumb in the eleventh round. For the rest he was content to tickle" the negro with an everextended left and block and dodge and sometimes receive his terrific punches. MeTigue is a brave, strong, and brainy man. The punches he took were enough to fell do ox- -but never was a vital spot exposed, and only twice did he look to be in any danger of the direct knock-out.

But that number of times was Siki himself in similar peril, once just slipping away in the nick of time from a right upper cut (before MeTigue received his injury) that would have sent him or anyone else down for the full count-out, and olice just blocking a second right hand punch delivered a moment after the first, straight to the jaw, had obviously shaken him. Monotonous Fighting. The rounds were almost all of a pattern, Siki always charging in, forcing his man to a corner, on to the ropes round the ring; MeTigue grimly pale, and towards the end with a deeply cut eye, but through it all icily cool, always defending, effective always alert for any chance of an riposte. At the last gong it was Siki who, so confident was he of having won, went forward to bow to the crowd, and had to be brought back by his seconds and convinced that he had lost the verdiet, Technically, Siki no doubt retains the titles he 11 from Carpentier, as the men did not weigh on Saturday. But in practice it will probably found he will nOW be ruled out of white championship fights MINISTRY BURGLED.

INTRUDERS TAKE DOCUMENTS NEAR SCOTLAND YARD. Montague House, the headquarters of the Ministry of Labour, was broken into by burglars during the week-end. A number of documents are reported missing. Montague House is adjacent to Scotland Attempts were recently made in other Government buildings. A sHin of £101 in Treasury notes and cash and quantity of National Health Insurance stamps have been stolen from the office at St.

Mary's Hospital, Paddington. They were contained in a safe, which the thieves also removed. £230 Theft at Cinema. A large steel safe, containing Treasury notes, silver and bronze, was stolen from the Old Kent Picture House, Old Kent-road, S.E., during the night. The value of the property is about £230.

A motor-van is stated to have been seen In the vicinity prior to the theft. A man's overcoat was left behind. LORD CARNARVON ILL. BLOOD POISONING DUE TO AN INSECT BITE. CAIRO, Monday.

The Earl of Carnarvon is suffering from severe blood poisoning, presumably due to an insect bite. -Reuter. NEW SCALA THEATRE one Charlotte St. Tottenham St. W.I.

THE GOLEM A wonderful Express. LAST WEEK Evenings at 8.30 Mat. Wedneeday and Saturday at 2.30 Sunday at 7.30 Popular Prices from exc. tax, Preceded by Conversion of Nat Sturge, by Malcolm Watson. ANOTHER STOVE EXPLOSION.

CITY SOLICITOR ESCAPES WITH SLIGHT INJURIES. 66 LIKE A BOMB." An anthracite stove exploded jast evening with terrific force at 45, Palace-court, Bayswater Hill, and wrecked the front room on the ground floor and its contents. Mr. Edward Gawne Roscoe, the occupier, was injured. Mr.

Roscoe, who is a member of the firm of Messrs. Ince, Colt, Ince, and Roscoe, City solicitors, is confined to bed with an injury to the leg. Interviewed to-day, Mr. Roscoe said: We were sitting at supper in the diningroom when the anthracite stove, which we have had in use there for some time, suddenly exploded. It went off with a report like a bomb in an air raid, the whole of the cast-iron stove being blown into fragments.

and hurled into all parts of the room. Furniture was smashed, glassware and crockery broken, and the walls pitted as if with a bomb in the raids. As showing the violence of the explosion, a silver spoon that had been on one table was found lying completely bent on another table. Fortunately, except for the slight injury to myself, we escaped being struck by the fragments of the COLONEL'S DEATH. BODY FOUND IN WEST.END HOME: RAZOR BESIDE IT.

Colonel C. E. Shepherd, a retired officer of the Indian Army, was found dead to-day at his home at Stanhope-gardens, South Kensington. A bloodstained razor was discovered in the room. The police were called and the body was removed to the Kensington mortuary.

Col. Shepherd had lived at Stanhope-gardens for some time. LENIN MAY LIVE. FATAL TURN TO HIS ILLNESS NOT EXPECTED IMMEDIATELY. COPENHAGEN, Monday, Moscow Council, it is reported here, has been officially notified of the serious turn in Lenin's condition.

It is said that a fatal turn is not expected immediately, and that recovery is. even possible. The War Council at Moscow has been summoned to pass resolutions 011 important questions which have arisen in consequence of Lenin's illness.The latest bulletins regarding the state of Lenin's health show that he is steadily getting better (telegraphs Reuter from Helsingfors). He is gradually regaining the use of his right hand and leg. RHINE REPUBLIC.

(Continued from Page One.) Belgium at the close of the recent Brussels Conference was such as to silence those who accused France of aiming at annexation. He was in favour, he declared, of a special statute for the Rhenish provinces Prussian officials ought to be removed, and the provinces themselves formed into a republic within the economic cadre of the Reich. The provinces also ought to be neutrali-ed from the military point of view, and their railways placed under the supervision of the League of Nations. Reuter. the Leucheur Central stated News that "while version the of provinces must be detached from Prussia it was a mistake to separate economically and politically the Imperial Government from these DEFIANT STILL.

PRESIDENT EBERT TRIES TO NERVE THE RUHR WORKERS. Addressing at Hamm, in Westphalia, a meeting of 1500 representatives of manufacturers and political parties in the Ruhr, President Ebert declared that the enemy occupation had achieved nothing," and that all the enemy efforts had failed (telegraphs Reuter from Berlin). Nevertheless, the President continued, the enemy still showed no readiness to come to an open and just understanding into which the German Government had always been and was still prepared to enter. If the Ruhr were permanently deprived of its coal there would be an end to Germany's competitive capacity in trade with which her existence was closely bound up. Will and Strength to Resist.

This knowledge," President Ebert coneluded, gives us the will and strength to hold ont. We are defenceless, and can only nse the weapon of passive resistance. Germany depends upon the men of the Ruhr to hold out as bravely, as firmly, as quietly, and as reasonably they have done hitherto. Then success will be certain." TURKS SEIZE FRENCH 'PLANE. Kemalist communique states that a French aeroplane made a forced landing behind the Kemalist lines east of Kilie, in Northern Syria.

French cavalry attempted to recover the machine and used arms, but the Kemalists maintained Renter. for wheat cargoes firm. with sellers asking 3d to 64 Ba advance. No. 1 Northern Manitoba afloat sellers 48s April 4Be, choice white Karachi 7000 tons April shipment sold 3d, and 48s 6d new asked.

Rosale 624lb afloat sellers 475, March- April 46s 9d. Harueso 631b March-April 468 6d. Market steadier for parcels wheat. No. Northern Manitoba April-May sold 460 to 468 3d.

June also Jane July 165 3d. Choice -bite Karachi MayJune 46s 6d. 62' gIb March-April 3d per 4801b. Cargoes were firrely held, but there not much response from buyers. Pl tere afloat sellers 38, April May 36s 9d, May June Me 3d.

Parcel with moderate inquir Plate April- May sold 36e 3d, sellera American mixed March-April yellow African July- 23s 6d per 4801b. The Duke of Devonshire was elected unopposed to-day an High Steward of Cambridge University, in succession to the late Earl of Piymouth, CHEMISTS TINN ACTION URGED BY MINISTRY OF HEALTH. MISSING DRUGS. Edward Ward, chemist, of Well-street, Hackney, was summoned at the North London Police Court this afternoon by the Hackney Borough Council for supplying a prescription known as mistura gentian composita chloroformi (L.I.P.) totally deficient in emulsum and acidum hydrocyanicum dilutum. and Mr.

Tee, Town Clerk of Hackney, prosecuted, for the defendant Mr. Kirby defended and entered a plea of guilty, saying that the missing drugs were not really of importance to the prescription. Mr. Pope, the magistrate, said that these cases had been sprung upon the courts resuit of a request from the Ministry of Health as; to the Borough Council to move in this direction. Mr.

Kirby said that his client had been in business for many years, and although had been frequently taken, this wag the first summons. Mr. Pope fined the defendant 20s. and ten guineas costs. 17,000 MINERS IDLE.

FURTHER 50,000 MEN MAY JOIN IN WELSH STRUGGLE. Seventeen thousand miners, in South Wales are to-day on strike as a result of the campaign to bring all the men into the union. 'The situation is complicated by a trade union quarrel, non-unionist as the South Wales Federation regards, as all members, of the Mechanical Workers' Union. The -latter declare they will not surrender to the Federation claim. Delegates in the Rhondda district have issued instructions to their men to put in 14 days' notice, and if these take effect, another 50,000 colliers will be involred.

'It is said there are 6000 non-unionists in this area. ATTACK ON WAGE AGREEMENT. A meeting at Cardiff to-day of delegates from the miners' lodges in South Wales unanimously decided in faronr of terminating the national wages agreement. The South Wales delegates were instructed to demand at next Monday's national conference, an increased minimum and wages commensurate with the cost of living. The South Wales miners form nearly one-fiftli of the membership of the Miners' Federation, and it is understood that they had been assured of the support of Lancashire.

LIVERFOOL COTTON. PREVIOUS CLOSING PRICES. American. -Mar. 16.20, May 16.07, July 15.88.

Oct. 14.59. Jan. 14.14. -Mar.

17.53 April 17.70, May 17.90, June 18.05, July 18.18 Evening Standard Special. March -American futures 4 to 10 points up. 16.28, May 16.17, July 15.92, Oct. 14.64, Jan. 14.20.

11.0 2.01. 15.95. -American 7 to 6 up. March 16.27, May 16.14, July Oct. 14.66, Jan.

14.20. -American 7 to 5 up. Mar. 16.27, May 16.13, July 15.94, Oct. 14.64, Jan.

14.20. Egyptian 17 to 18 up. Mar. 17.70, April 17.87, May 18.08, June 18.23, July 18.35. 1.15 p.m.

American 9 to 6 up. Mar. 16.27, May 16.14, July 14.68, Jan. 14.20. Probable sales 5000.

2.15 p.m.- American 6 to 9 up. March 16.26, May 16.13, July 14.68, Jan. 14.20. p.m.- American 6 to 13 up. Mar.

16.26, May 16.14, July 15.96, Oct. 14.72, Jan. 14.25. 3.30 p.m. -American 5 to 15 up.

Mar. 16.25, May 16.12, July 15.94, Oct. 14.72, Jan. 14.29. American 4 to 19 up.

Mar. 16.24, May 16.13, July 15.96, Oct. 14.78. Jan. 14.31.

Feyptian 28 up. Mar. 17.80, April 17.97, May 18.18, June 18.33, July 18.45. NEW YORK COTTON. May.

July. Oet. Dee. Last close 31.25 30.42 26.82 26.40 Opening 31.47 30.50 26.95 26.50 a.11. 31.43 30.54 27.05 11.0 3.10.

31.32 30.49 27.05 26.48 LONDON METAL MARKET. Copper. Irregular. Standard, cash £75 £75 78. three months £77 to £77 2s, 6d.

Electrolytio £83 to £83 10s. Standard, cash £225 103. to £226. three months £226 10s. to £227.

English ingots £225 to £225 10s. English £30, foreign £28 15s, to £29, steady. Foreign £37 5s. to £37 7s. easy.

NEW ISSUE SUCCESSES. Owing to over-subscription, the lists of the following new issues are now closed: Illingworth, Morris and Co. First Mortgage Six per Cent. Debentures, East Asiatic Rubber Estates, and Kelly's Directories (Limited) Seven and a Half per Cent. Preference shares, the last named being offered by the Imperial and Foreign Corporation (Limited), but for which applications received first post to-morrow morning will have consideration.

GORDON (MALAYA) RUBBER ESTATES. To-morrow the subscription list will be open for of 650.000 shares each in the Gordon (Malaya) Rubber Estates (Limited), a company hav. ing a capital of £70,000 formed to acquire rubber plantations in Kedeah (F.M.S.). DIVIDENDS AND REPORTS. SALT -Net profits for year of dividend on Preference shares of 2s.

4d. per share, and on Ordicary of 28. per share: forward, £20,228. OGILVIE FLOUR of 3 per on Common stock for quarter. INTERNATIONAL -Dividend of ahare Common stock for quarter.

Interim dividend at rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less tax, on Ordinary shares for balf-year. RITZ HOTEL dividend Ordinary at rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less tax, for haltcoded November 30. of 15 per cent.

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