JOHNSON'S ADORERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 865, 11 July 1910, Page 7

JOHNSON'S ADORERS.

KISS HIS CAR. FEELING ACAIMST PICTURES CROVvS. PROHIBITIONS PROBABLE. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Roc. July 10, 5.5.p.m.) New York, July 9. Numbers of adoring negroes, unable to gain an oppurmnity ot shaking linnils with Johnson on his arrival in Chicago after his victory, kissed and stroked his motor-ear.

JEFFRIES BADLY INJURED. MAY LOSE AN EYE. New York, July 8. vSome of the newspapers state- that Jeffries will probably lose the sight of one eye as the result of the punishment inflicted by Johnson in the recent fight. ENGLAND AND THE PICTURES. MOTION BEFORE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. (Rec. July 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 9. There ia a. growing feeling hero against the exhibition of the kinematograph pictures of the JohnsonJeffries fight.

At a meeting of the London County Council the Rev. Scott Lidgett (alderman, and editor of the "Methodist Times") gave notice of a resolution notifying all music-halls and kinematograph theatres that the pictures are undesirable.

PICTURE SYNDICATE'S POSITION

PERMANENT SHELVING POSSIBLE. New York, July 8. The syndicate which intends the exploitation of the Jeffries-Johnson biograph pictures declare that they will not attempt to force the pictures on communities legislating against them, and promise to permanently shelve the pictures if popular sentiment is adverse to them.

SOUTH AFRICA SAYS "NO."

INSTRUCTIONS TO POLICE. Caps Town, July 8. The Union Government has given an instruction to tho police to prohibit the exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures in South Africa. JOHNSON VISITS THE BANK. A TIDY DEPOSIT. REMEMBERS OLD BENEFACTORS. (Rec July 11, 0.35 a.m.) Now York, July 10. Johnson has banked £22,000 at Chicago. Ho gave from £50 to £150 each to eight men who had befriended him years, ago at Galveston.