BLOOD LETTING EXHIBITIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3661, 5 July 1927, Page 3

BLOOD LETTING EXHIBITIONS.

WHAT SIR HALL CAINE THINKS. London, July 1. As #ie outcome of Milligan’s terrific pounding of Walker, Sir Hall Caine, the well-known novelist and dramatist, lias written a remarkable letter to the “Daily Express” calling on “Someone speakipg with the authority of the public, conscience io call a halt for such orgies of savage, corrupt, and 1 degrading inhumanity.” He calls on bishop and priest, and on not only those loving honest sport, but on every healthyminded, able bodied person. Briefly he says that while man, whatever his class or condition, is full of personal courage and pride in the display of his powers of personal endurance he basks such a man to say in the sacred name of humanity that such gross exhibitions of merciless savagery and loathsome trafficking in human suffering must cease in England. Mr. C. B. Cochran, the wellknown organiser and enterpreneuiy replies: “This early Victorian flapdoodle has been written without the knowledge of or a sympathy with the noble science. Walker wa§ not brutally knocked about in the light with Milligan. We are not murderers, nor blackguards. We played the game straight aud fought cleanly.” Mr. Kearns, Walker’s manager, says that Sir Hall’ Caine’s strictures are piffle.