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Amateur Boxing
Association Formed

The first annual meeting of the British Columbia Amateur
Boxing and Wrestling Association was held Monday night at the
YMCA when a number of boxing and wrestling organizations
formed a new body to promote amateur fights.

First show under the auspices of the new body will be
staged shortly at the Vancouver Sports Club quarters on Gore
avenue.

Officers were elected as follows: President, Eric Martin;
vice-president, P. Kosolanko; secretary-treasurer, Bob Camp-
bell; publicity chairman, Harry Miller; boxing match-maker,
Sonny Griffiths; wrestling match-makers, George Bunka and
Paul de Buzogany.

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Portrait
Unveiled

VSC Pays Tribute
To Duke Levens

Before a near-capacity house
at the Vancouver Sports- Club
Saturday, the portrait of Har-
old “Duke” Levens, foundation
member of the club killed re-
cently in Spain, was unveiled
by Don Lott and Doe Wilkes,
two of his close friends.

A short address was made
at the unveiling by Eric Mar-
tin, registrar for the depart-
ment of recreation and physi-
eal education. The portrait
hangs beside that of Charles
“Chuck” Parker, former in-
structor of the club who was
killed in Spam some months
ago.

Plan Youth
Centre Here

Fund Drive
To Be Launched

By JACK PHILLIPS

The Youth Centre movement,
launched at Montreal in 1937, has
reached Vancouver.

Pians are now being made for
establishment of the city’s first
centre in the west end and a drive

for funds will be opened next
month.

Like the four youth centres in
Montreal and that started this

year in Winnipeg the proposed Van-
couver centre will be anti-fascist
providing a meeting place where
the city’s young people can gather
for recreation and study.

Vi McRae, provincial president
of the Young Communist League,
who will head the campaign for
funds, announced this week that
the drive will open with a Labor
Day Ball to be held at the Town
Hall, Sept. 5.

Boxing Meet
Next Weekend

Friday and Saturday night at
the Auditcerium, the BC pro
vincial boxing championship
takes place. New entries com-
ing in daily testify to the imter-
est in the event. The welter-
weight division seems to be
drawing most attention.

Since Woodhouse was knocked
out in the first round by Daw-
son at the Empire trials last
December much controversy has
taken place. Woodhouse is keen
for a re-match. However, in this
“class is Eric Brunell of Langley

Prairie Elks, who won ithe
middleweight championship at
Powell River last May. Brunell

is a boy with a deadly punch
and is always dangerous.

Aries Club has an i8-year-old
youngster who will give plenty
of trouble before the champion-
ship is decided. Another good
boy from this club is Newsie
McConachie, the Lower Main-
land champion in the 118 pound
class. He fought at Winnipeg re-
cently for the Dominion cham-
pionship and only a screwy de-
cision prevented him from wear-
ing the crown.—YORKHIST.

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Bethune

Of all the soldiers enrolled in
the University, one out of six is
from the Highth Route Army. All
are officers. All have been wound-
ed, many several times. One stu-
dent—an Army Corps commander
—has been wounded ten times. He
is thirty-two years of age.

Many of these officers were peas-
ants, with little or no fermal edu-

cation. HEflere they will learn, or
begin to learn, those subjects
which up to the present they

have had no time for. ;
Of the officers not belonging to

the Eighth Route Army but ta
the Koumintang Central Army,
some have been sent by their

superior officers,
Signed to come,

others have re—
failing to obtain

permission. Many of them are
praduates of the best military
academies in China. One is a

graduate of St. Cyr, France.

The main idea of these officers
is to learn what the Bighth Roure
Army teaches its soldiers to gfve
them such wonderful morale and
to learn how the PMighth Route
Army gains the support and con-
fidence of the people. They learn
how these things are done. They
learn how partisans are organized
and a thousand other “Ssecrets.’’

Many of these officers know
more about classical military tac-
tics than their instructors. Their
book learning must be reorgan-
ized in the light of the practical
experience of the HBighth Army.
There is no other army in the
world with its history of ten years
of repeated successes against
many different armies. Such an.
army has gained the respect of
friends and foe alike. And now
that army is willing and eager to
show its former foes how those
brilliant successes were achieved.

Many Girls

Five-sixths of the students in
the University are from other
uDpiversities and schools. Every
province in China is represented,
even Siking, on the borders of
Tibet. One out of every seven stu-
dents is a girl.

Most of these girls are from
well-to-do-families. The son, .the
daughter and the daughter-in-law
of a high divisional commander
all are students here. They stood
not only the ordinary hardships of
all students, but dug their own
caves in addition. The daughte.
has now graduated and returned
to do political work among her
father’s own soldiers.

The son graduated last term.
His father has offered him a high
military position in the Worth
Western Army, but he prefers to
stay with the Eighth Army. This
eurious attitude of these three
made the relatives of the general
very curious, so curious that they
came, in mass, to see what «. was
all about. Four stayed to enter the
University as students.

Many of these young girls are
very pretty, all are intelligent.
They are taught military tactics
along with the soldiers. Why?
After they graduate, these youn:
girls are given different kinds of
work. Some will go to the front
to work organizing the peasants.
Some will go behind the Japa-
mese lines to organize partisans.
They must be familiar with mili-
tary tactics as they are with or-
ganizational ones. The average
eirl of their age, in Canada or
America, is still thinking of dates,
dances, and the movies.

Jobiess Youth Jailed

“— will give you
month in Oakalla.”

This was Magistrate Mackenzie
Matheson’s answer to the plea
made by John M. Campbell when
he appeared in city police court
Saturday charged with having
broken a window in the relief of-
fice after he was refused assist-
ance. :

“T could not get relief and Tf
was hungry,’ Campbell said.

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Shipments

claimed, that increased shipments
of metals from this country were
not being utilized for war purposes
by aggressor powers.

But even a cursory examination
of BCG metal exports over the
period of the past year will show
‘tthe flimsiness of this argument
and reveal that BC is without
question one of the chief sources

of supply for the vital war requir
ments of Japan.

Mines which had been close
dewn for years before Japan ij
spired the Lukouchiao ‘incident’ ¢
provide a pretext for her invasio
of China have reopened express}
for the purpose of shipping cor
ecentrates to Japan. :

Granby Biggest Shipper

This was the case when Granby
Gonsolidated Mining and Smelting
Gompany opened its mine at Cop-
per Mountain, BC. Today Granby
is the biggest shipper in the prov-—
ince, with a three-year contract
with Mitsui and Company, Ltd.,
and Mitsubishi Shoji, Kaisha Ltd,
whereby the two powerful Japa-
nese concerns have agreed to pur-
chase all the copper Granby Can
produce. a

In the first three months of
1938 these shipments amounted to
6,695,653 pounds of copper, an
average of 2,231,878 pounds a

month, and this output is bein
maintained, if not increased.

Closed for seven years until |
was rehabilitated by Granby at
eost of $500,000 last spring, th
Allenby mill, near Princete:
which has a daily capacity of 3,00
tons of ore, is now operating fu
time, while the company’s pres
dent, N. i. Amster, announce,
“We are shipping to Japan as fas
as we can produce.”

One has only to glance: over th

‘list of Japanese vessels Calling 4

the Port of Vancouver to confir:
this.

Japan Needs BC Nickel

Thus far, only test shipments of
nickel concentrates have gone
from the Choate, BC, property of

Pacific Nickel Mines, but the
company has been negotiating
with Japanese interests for

months in an effort to obtain con-
tracts covering the entire output
of the mine over a long period.
Tt is planned to construct a
fiotation concentrator near thu
mine with a daily capacity of 250
tons which can, when required, be
stepped up to 500 tons. Such 2
plant would enable the company
to ship concentrates averaging
between 6 and 7 percent nickel.

Last year several Japanese en-

gineers visited the mine to a
sure themselves of the company

claim to have bliscked out ore r
serves of 1,250,000 tons, runniz
1.4 percent nickel and 0.5 perce
copper. The Japanese engines
afterwards expressed themselves
as being “well satisfied.’’

They had every reason to B
Japan has experimented wi
nickel ores from various Far Eas
erm countries for some years wit
out success. The ore from ft
Choate mine conforms wit
Japan’s requirements and is ther
fore of the greatest importance
her war economy.

Japanese Companies Spend $1,000,000

Two companies in Japan have
spent more than a million dollars
between them preparing their
| plants for handling the ore and, in
September, 1937, Professor Frank
A. Forward, formerly of the Uni-
versity of British Columbia, made
@ special trip to Japan in order to
explain to Japanese engineers the
complicated smelting processes.

Wet another big company reap-
ing rich profits from its traffic of
death with Japan is Consolidated
Mining and Smelting which is
shipping steadily from its Trail,
BG smelter. While exact figures
of these shipments are difficult to
obtain, there is no doubt that they
run into high figures. Not only are

shipments going to Japan throu;
Trail, but several hundred tons
BC copper are exported annua
to Italy. ;

It would be possible to fill se
eral colums with details of t
various Shipments of lead, nick
copper and zine sent from vario
smaller BC mines to Japan, t
the fact stands for itself. Brit
Columbia’s monopoly mining
terests are supplying the Japans¢
war machine with a considera’
part of its essential requireme:
and will consequently fight bitte
to retain a policy which enab
them to carry on their ghas
traffic without hindrance.

Extent Of Traffic Alarming

Coupled with shipments from
properties controlled directly by
Japanese capital the extent of this
traffic is alarming. The Tidewater
copper mine on the west coast of
Vancouver Island, previously men-
tioned, has already sent test ship-
ments to Japan and is capable of

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a big output. Im 1923, the year op-
erations were ceased by the Tide-
water Copper Company, the mine
produced 40,000 tons of ore from
which 1600 tons of concentrates
were obtained.

There are,

reports now that

Japanese interests are survey
still other BC properties with
View to purechsse. Because

widespread public protest, th
properties will probably be bow;
through dummy Canadian cx
panies, a policy which is be
followed by the Japanese, not o
in iBritish Columbia, but aiso
Australia, where a year ago Ja]
acquired control of the vast i
fields in Yampi Sound on

northwest coast by inducing B:
serts, Ltd., an Australian compe

to lend its mame to the lease.

Protests Must Be Heeded

The Canadian Legion, the Farm-
ers Institutes of BC, the Young
Liberals and several Liberal as-
sociations, as well as progressive
political parties, trade unions and
cultural organizations have all
protested to Wictoria and Ottawa
against this policy which enables
military-fascist Japan to gain con-
trol of British Columbia’s natural
resources and accordingly exert a

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strong political influence over
internal policies. The situatior
fraught with such danger to
welfare and security of the Cz
dian people that all these

other organizations should at c
launch a wide campaign to f
the government to change a
igy which is leading directly
war.

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