THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1939
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Jere and on the right are stamps issued to encourage spart in Rusala.
TOMINALLY the Tsar's Government included
a Minister for Sports, the first of his kind in the world. This office, however, must have been one of the many sinecures of the Rus- sian Court, or else the Minis- ter was far, far ahead of his time.
Anyhow, the giant Russian Empire with roughly 150 million Inhabitants could only boast of 250 sports clubs, in which no more than 30,000 athletes were organised. The terribly poor peasants and populace were up- educated and kept in the dark. Sport was a domnin entirely re- served for the well-to-do, of which the masses knew literally nothing. Even
among the wealthy there was hardly a
RUSSIA'S NATIONAL
FITNESS
na well known' and as much: talked of in the big Russian towns as over here.
No amateur question bothers the Russiana. After having raised the standard at a rate of over 150 new Russian records a year the lenders of the Supreme Council for Physical Culture are now stimulating popular ambition to beat world records.
The Government know - very well what their promotion of the Russian equivalent to the British "Keep. Fit" movement means, both to public health and to the future of the fighting forces..
IN the 1988 Budget the U.S.S.R. provided 148 million roubles for physical cul- ture and education, almost 50 per cent, more han the year be. fore.
In addition, 34 million were. donated for the promotion of
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OGILVIE-At the Matilda Hospital, great desire for this pastime is parachute jumping, certainly the promotion of physical cal- the tourists' movement, inclui-
Hongkong, on July 23, 1839, | ‹ part from riding, shooting, not allen to military preparation. ture. Donald Ogivle, aged 32 years, fencing and a little tennis.
ing mountaineering and climb- late Manager of the Far East
At a time when the American To give one example, the the construction und
ing, and another 13 million for Travel and Transter Co. Funeral
"Bird Man," the late Clem Sohn, production of skis has gone up tenance of huts and houses to main- will pass the Monument at 5 p.m.
showed his act to-dậy, Shanghul papers please
of "flying" from 7,000 pairs in 1924 to provide these tourists NOT until after the war, through the skies like a human 800,000 ten years later, 1,700,000 sleeping accommodation in the copy.
or more precisely after bat, Russia had already made a in. 1937 and well the topsy-turvy years of the film of this kind of gliding and million pairs last year. WEARE-At the Queen Mary Hospi-revolution, did Russian sport be not of a single daring individual, significant is that the supply is that this lavish endowment of
gin to boom and to grow at a but of whole battalions. Many still far behind the demand. more astonishing pace than clse hundreds of soldiers alighted where. In 1928 Russia mustered 759,000 sportsmen.
tal, on July 23, 1939, Jacquiline.
and Mrs. F. 1. Weare, No. 2 Police Station. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. this afternoon.
Emily, infant daughter of Sgt.
öbe
from planes by nieans of
Two years later sport became "wings" and parachutes during a mass movement-by order of manoeuvres partly equipped with the Government. The Supreme machine guns, light artillery and.
over two mountains.
Moro
convinced
The U.S.S.R. is
physical culture must yield valuable interests in the form of economies effected in medi-
Hongkong Telegraph. Council declared physical cul- even small tanks and landed construction of sports grounds, lation and in particular of the
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THE extent
of Japan's plot against foreign rights in the Far East stands forth that none can mistake its meaning. Tientsin has been selected for the Tokyo test case because there it
is Great Britain which is in the
main affected.
NEITHER the production cal services, it improved health of equipment nor the and fitness of the entire popu- swimming pools, club houses and younger generation. drill halla can keep pace with In Moscow a Stalin Stadium is the rapid development of sport.
being built which will offer
accommodation seating
tare as an affair of the State of "behind the enemy's lines." the first magnitude. Suddenly In 1936 the Russian Post Office issued a set of ten sport progress became amazing.
At this time the trade unions stamps. comprised about 15,000 small The Soviet Union has at sport circles, but in 1934 they present five universities for 108,000 spectators, and allow mass displays of 10,000 athletes
by now.
athletes
of
A
to
W. W. Meis!
A Look Through The “Telegraph”.
counted 30,000 clubs to compare physical culture, more than favourably with the 30,000 in any other country. They are and gymnasts. dividual athletes of pre-war situated in Leningrad, Mos-
The Russian authorities, of Russia, and Antipoff, the then cow, Titlis, Minsk and Kicy. Of course, had first of all to try to President of the Supreme Coun- the 4,000 lectures every student introduce sport to the nation cil for Physical Culture, proudly has to attend in the course of and to concentrate on the announced that. the Soviet his four years' training 2,000 masses. But already for some
50 YEARS AGO Union boasted of six million are devoted to his special sport, years past an ever larger group
July 24, 1889. organised
both 1,000 to theory, as physiology, of outstanding athletes has Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, The Under Secretary of State for sexes, a number almost doubled biology, medical science, etc. been developed in nearly all aid that England had entered into no
For many years theso uni- branches of sport. Nowadays clared between France and Italy.
engagement in case of war bring do It is a cunning piece of sectional
versities have turned out about the governing body is busily
25 YEARS AGO aggression against the democratic
1,000 qualified instructors an engaged in raising the stan-
July 24, 1914. Powers. But neither the United SPORT methods have been nually,
dard and thus popularising states that in the match between Aus- Reuter's correspondent at Chicago Stateu nor France can have any
adopted to, raise the in- About 40,000 instructors are sport generally,
tratis and Canada tn. the Davis Inter- doubts that if Japan were to windustrial output, Stakhanov was working in Russian physical
national Lawn Tennia Competition, Brookes (Australla) beat Behtrengers her point there, further and larger | the man who applied the sport- culture and sport education,
(Canada) by 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. challengey would come as a mattering spirit and team work as a 4,000 physicians specialise in
བ་ RUSSIAN football teams of of course. The British Govern means
The disturbances in Russia are now increasing many sport. Sport and gymnastics
have visited. Scandina- plainly revalutionary. ment takes a very serious view of times over
his coal output. are compulsory not only at via, France, Czecho-Slovakia and strikers cut the telegraphs, upset vans, Besides the amashing of trama, the the situation, as it may well do, Stakhanovíam dominated in schools and universities but other countries. The Arsenal with which they constructed barricades, and if she deserted her treaty nearly every branch of in- even in factories and large in- and other leading British cluby waved the rod dag, sang revolutionary rights,
Заранее
songs, and stoned the police and troops, reports dustry. It has helped Russian dustries.
have received invitations to play who were compelled to fire. would have us believe, the conse: industry enormously. Foreign There are about 7,000 sports in Russia. After their matches quences would be of the gravest critics pointed out that this grounds in Russia, 250 buildings in Prague and Paris the Russian Institute building has been definitely The site for the new Helena May nature,
Japan apparently
looked devoted to physical culture and footballers were compared with axed, and is to be between the Peak practical sport France and the United States to astonishingly like Bedeauxism roughly 3,000 drill halls. The the best British professionals Tramway lower terminus and St.
Joseph's Church, stand aside. Hitherto joint action and Taylorism, both systems output of sports goods is in by the Press experts. The by the democratic Powers in the despised and hated by ali creasing steadily, so is the British League clubs and their Far East has been a restraining Socialists.
annual Government grant for most famous players are almost Influence on the Tokyo Govern-
The Russians felt annoyed ment, but as the campaign in China drags on, heavily draining and declared that Stakhanov Japanese resources, the military had created
absolutely element becomes mors and more fresh idea, different from any impatient for definite results, other previously known "ism" especially at the expense of the with the possible exception of
Marxism. In any Stakhanov case showed imprea- sively how deeply aport had already set its hallmark on Russian life.
да
counts
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new
foreign countries with interests In China.
The challenge to treaty rights ie so serious that there must be no weakening on Britain's part at Tokyo.
British Readiness
BRITONS are always glad to
AM
case the
The trade unions played a tremendous part in the de-
velopment of physical culture. hear from Lord Chatfield, or The big Industrial enterprises any other authoritative spokesman, have also the biggest, beat Assurances that rearmamentis equipped and
most efficient
making good progress. The Desports clubs and teams. fenco Minister's announcement that "We are well on our way to nehleve our aim of being more ready for war in
we have ever he time than
Jing been
received with various expressions of satisfaction. But, taken ilter- ally, what does it amount to? Not much, one is bound to confess,
way" to
The unpreparedness with which Britain has hitherte entered upon Its wars is notorious. To say that
the wo are "well on achieving a better state of affairs at present cannot be accepted, therefore, as being as reassuring as the Minister doubtless meant It to be. Since our preparations have now been going on for a long poriod, and intensively since Inst September, when even the most portinacious sleepers among us began to sit up and take notice, It would surely have been no of confidence for Lord Chatfold to say that we
excess
ara
SPORT is propagated and
encouraged in every possible way by the Government and all authorities, by wireless and Press. Many enterprises organise long-distance walks, mainly for groups, a very good general training of great mill- tary value.
A popular pastime
already more prepared to face the ordent of war than we have over before been in peace timo?
In the present European circum- stances, à continuance of our casy- going "muddlo through" polley of other years would probably be fatal to the independent existence of the nation, if not of the whole British Commonwealth.
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Router's correspondent at Belgrade states that the Austro-Hungarian Note has been delivered to Servia demanding #suppression of the Pan-Servian move- ment and the punishment of the accom- plicas in the assassinations of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and hip Connort.
An answer is required by o'clock thie (Thursday) evening.
The Austrian Note demanda publicu tion of the Servian Government's con demnation of the recent anti-Austrian propaganda, the punishment of affon- dera, the suppression of anti-Austrian teaching in the schools, dismissal of offers and functionaries whose names the Austrian Government reserves the [right to communicate, the acceptance of collaboration by Austrian omeliis in the suppression of the anti-Servian move..
ent, and the prosecution of the accessories to the Sarajevo Crime, with the enllaboration of the Austrian Gov- ernment representatives,
The Note also demands the arrest of the Servian Major and the State officia! who compromised the results of the enquiry at Surajovo.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1029. A plen far better pictures was made by Ar. C. Mancini, one of the share- holders, at the eighth annual meeting of the Hongkong Attunements, Ltd. held to-day,
Refoxonce was also made at the meeting to the "Talkies," Mr. Backboune saying that the Director had considered this now development, and pointed out that the installation of the apparatus would cost betwkeen $30,000 and $40,- 000. In further added that if the Company gave way to the film pro ducers, talking film would cost four or Sve ilmes de much as sliant sime, not- withstanding the fact that the latter had been increasing in cost from 10 to TO per epat.. each year.
5 YEARS ACO
July 24, 1934, In the House of Commons, in the course of a written reply to a question, Mr. Baldwin expressed the hope that it might be possible to make an announce- ment before the House rixon with regard to the arrangements for the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of His Majesty the King's
Accession to the Throne,
next year.