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TOMINALLY the Tsar's Government included
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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 un- educated and kept in the dark. Sport was a domain 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
Dr. and Mrs. K. C. Lam wish to thank great desire for this pastime is parachute jumping, certainly the promotion of physical cul-
all friends for their kind expres-part from riding, shooting, not alien to military preparation. ture. sions of sympathy, foral tributes and attendance at the funeral of fencing and a little tennis, their beloved son, James,
DEATHS
OGILVIE,—At the Matilda liospital, Hongkong, on July 23, 1939,
Donald Oglivic, aged 32 years, Travel and Transfer Co. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day. Shunghal papers please
Jate Manager of the Far East
copy,
WEARE-At the Queen Mary Hospi- tal, on July 23, 1939, Jacquiline Emily, infant daughter of Sgt. Police Station. Funeral will pass und MTA. F. 11. Weare, No. 2 the Monument at 5.15 pan. this afternoon.
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as well known and as much talked of in the big Russian towns as over here.
No amateur question bothers. the Russians, After having raised the standard at a rate of over 150 new Russian records'u year the leaders 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- turo and education, almost 50 per cent, more hai the year be fore.
In addition, 34 million were. donated for the promotion of the tourists movement, includ- Ing mountaineering and climb- At a time when the American
ing, and another 13 million for "Bird Man," the late Clem Sohn, production of skis has gone up tenance of huts and houses to To give one example, the the construction and main- showed his act of "flying" from 7,000 pairs in 1924, to provide NOT until after the war, through the skies like a human 800,000 ten years later, 1,700,000 sleeping accommodation in the these tourists with or more precisely after bat, Russia had already made a in the topsy-turvy years of the film of this kind of gliding and million pairs last year.
1037 and well over two mountains. revolution, did Russian sport be not of a single daring individual, significant is that the supply is that this lavish endowment of More The U.S.S.R. is convinced gin to boom and to grow at a
must yield 'valuable interests in the form pf economics effected in medi- Two years later sport became "wings" and parachutes during mass movement-by order of manoeuvres partly equipped with N
TEITHER the production cal services, It improved health the Government. The Supreme machine guns, light artillery, and
of equipment nor the and fitness of the entire popu- lation and in particular of the Council declared physical cul- even small tanks and landed construction of sports grounds, ture as an affair of the State of "behind the enemy's linea." swimming pools, club houses and younger generation. the first magnitude. Suddenly In 1935
drill halls can keep pace with the Russian Post progress became amazing. Office issued a act of ten sport In Moscow a Stalin Stadium is the rapid development of sport.. sport circles, but in 1934 they present five universities for 103,000 spectators, and allow being built which will offer seating accommodation to counted 30,000 clubs to compare physical culture, more & CO., LTD.
favourably with the: 30,000 in- any other country. They are and gymnusts.
muss displays of 40,000 athletes dividual athletes of pre-war situated in Leningrad, Mos- Russia, and Antipoff, the then cow, Tiflis, Minsk and Kiev. Of course, had first of all to try to The Russian authorities, of 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 announced that the
concentrate on the Soviet his four years' training 2,000 masses. But already for some Union boasted of six million are devoted to his special sport; years pust an ever larger group
50 YEARS AGO organised athletes of
July 24, 1889. sexes, a number almost doubled biology, medical science, etc. been developed in nearly all said that England had entered into no
both 1,000 to theory, as physiology, of outstanding athletes
The Under Secretary of State for has Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question,
more astonishing pace than else but of whole battalions. Many still far behind the demand. physical culture where. In 1928 Russia mustered hundreds of soldiers alighted
from 759,000 sportsmen.
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July 24, 1939
"Test Case" THE extent
of Japan's plot against foreign rights in the
Far East stands forth so 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,
It is a cunning piece of sectional aggression against the democratic
At this time the trade unions stamps. comprised about 15,000 amsil The Soviet Union has at
by now.
SPORT methods have been adopted to raise the in-
than
W. W. Meis!
A Look Through The Telegraph"
+
:
For many years these uni- branches of sport. Nowadays gement in ease of war being de
clared between France and Italy. versities have turned out about the governing body is busily
25 YEARS AGO 1,000 qualified instructors an- engaged in raising the stan- nually..
July 24, 2014. dard and thus popularising to that in the match between Aas
Router's correspondent nc Chicago- About 40,000 instructors are sport generally.
tralia and Canada in the Davia Intor- Powers. But neither the United dustrial output. Stakhanov was working in Russian physical
national Lawn Tennis Competition, States nor France can have any the man who applied the sport- culture and sport education,
Brooker (Australia) beat Schwengers doubts that if Japan were to wining spirit and team work as a 4,000 physicians specialise in
(Canada) by 6-2, 6-3, 0-2. -her point there, further and larger means of increasing many sport. Sport and
RUSSIAN football-teama gymnastics challenges would come as a matter times
The disturbances in Russia are now have visited Scandina-plainly revolutionary. over his conl output. are of course. The British Govern- Stakhanovism
compulsory not only at via, France, Czecho-Slovakia and
Besides the smashing of trams, the dominated in schools and universities but other countries. The Arsenal with which they constructed barricades, strikers cut the talegraphe, upset vanı, ment takes a very serious view of the situation, as it may well do, dustry. It has helped Russian dustries.
nearly every branch of in- even in factories and large in- and other leading British clubs waved the red flag, sang revolutionary and if she deserted her treaty
have received invitations to play who were compelled to are.
songs, and stoned the police and troeps, righta, 05 Japanese
enormously. Foreign reports industry would have us believo, the conse- critics pointed out that this grounds in Russia, 260 buildinga in Prague and Paris the Russian Institute, building has been definitely
There are about 7,000 sports in Russia. After their matches:
The site for the now Helenn, Muy quences would be of the gravost new practical aport looked devoted to physical culture and footballers were compared with fixed, and is to be between the Peak nature.
Japan apparently counts
astonishingly like Bedeauxism roughly 3,000 drill halls. The the best British professionals Tramway lower and Taylorism, both systerns output of sports goods is in- by the Press experts.
The despised and hated by all creasing steadily, so is the British League clubs and their, Socialists.
annual Government grant for most famous players are almost
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France and the United States to stand aside. Hitherto joint action by the democratic Powers in the Far East has been a restraining The Russians felt annoyed Influence on the Tokyo Govern and declared that Stakhanov ment, but as the campaign In had China drags on, heavily draining fresh idea, different from any
created
211 absolutely Japanese resources, the military element becomes more and more other previously known "ism" impatient for definite results, with the possible exception of especially at the expense of the Marxism.
In any caso the foreign countries with interests in Stakhanov case showed impres- China.
already set its hall mark on sively how deeply sport had
Russian life.
The challenge to treaty rights is so serious that there must be no weakening on 'Britain's part at Tokyo.
British Readiness
BRITONS are always glad to
The trade unions played a tremendous part in the de- velopment of physical culture. The big industrial enterprises have also the biggest, best equipped and most efficient sports clubs and teams.
SPORT is propagated and
encouraged in
every
hear from Lord Chatfield, or any other authoritativo spokesman, Assurances that rearmament is making good progress. The De- fence Minister'a announcement that "We are well on our way to achieve our aim of being more ready for war in ponce time than we have ever been," has been possible way by the Government recolved with various expressions and all authorities, by wireless of satisfaction. But, taken liter- ally, what does it amount to? Not and Press. Many enterprises much, one is bound to confess.
organiso long-distance walks, The unpreparedness with which mainly for groups, a very good Britain has hitherto entered upon general training of great mill- its wars is notorious. To say that tary value. A popular pastime we are "well on the way to achieving a batter state of affaira at present cannot be accepted, Chatfield to therefore, as being so reassuring as the Minister doubtless meant it to be, Since our preparations have now been going on for a long In the prosent Evropean circum- period, and intensively since last stances, a continuance of our easy- September, when even the most going. "muddle through" policy, of pertinacious aloopers among us other yours would probably be began to sit up and take notice, fatal to the independent oxistence it would surely have been no of the nation, if not of the whole excess of confidence for Lord | British Commonwealth.
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say that wo already mora prepared to face the ordeal of war than we have ever befors boon in peace time?
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Reuter's correspondant at Belgrade later that the Austro-Hungarian Note has been dolivared to Servla demanding a suppression of the Pan-Borvien moTG- ment and the punishment of the accom plices in the assasinations of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and hin Consort.
An answer is required by o'clock this (Thursday) oranlag,
The Austrian Note damanda publica- tion of the Bervian Government's con- demnation of the recent anti-Austrian propaganda, the punishment of offen- Jers, the suppression of anti-Austrian teaching in the schools, diamdeal, of oneers and functionaries whose names the Austrian Government reserves the right to communicate, the acceptance of collaboration by Austrian officials in the suppression of the anti-Servian move- ment, and the prosecution of the accessories to the barajova Crime, with the collaboration of the Austrian Gor ernment representatives.
The Note, ateo demands the arrest of the Bervinn Major and the State ofleinl who compromised the results of the enquiry at Bnrajeva.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1920. A plea for better pictures was made hy Mr. C. Mancini, one of the abare holders, at the eighth annual meeting of the Hangkong Amusements, Ltd., beld today.
Reference WAK also made .the meeting to the "Talkies," Mr. Backhouse saying that the Director had considered this new development, and pointed out that the Installation of the apparatas would cost betwksen $80,000 and $40,- 60. He further added that if the Company-gave way to the fi pro- ducers, talking flims would cost four or Пve times a much as silent films, not- withstanding the fact that the fattor had been increasing in cost from 10 to 20 per cent. each year,
5 YEARS AGO
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 ah announce- mont before the House rises with regard to the arrangements for the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of His Majesty: ika King's Accession to the Throne, next year.
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