Tt scorns fo be the almost unanimous fepinion of sporting cries at. Home hat the British team picked for the wack events in the Olympic Games which begin in Berlin to-day 3s one of the strongest all round teams that! has represented the country for many [years." The tez=> was chosen on the Basic of performances at the ALEA. championships, where there were some extremely good displays. Per~ haps the two outstanding wins were those of A. G. K. Brown in the querler mile ahd.'C. Wooderson in the mile. In the latter event the race was run in rain over @ wet track 2 test of endurance as well Funaing. Wooderson's chit rival w 'E. Lovelock, the New Zealander who held the Beltish record for the distance. unfit Wooderson recently fettered his time. Wooderson won by. yard." Another race in which Britain is conceded "an. excellent [Erance is the 409 metres. The British feprecentatives will be A.
Brown, G. Zo Rampling, "and. W. Roberts. "Rampling holds the British record for the arter, ud Robert was AAA. champion last. year, heather was a match for Brown, who
2 half yards, in spite of having drawa won th ite tis year by three ud the outside position, Britain is also be well represented in the hundred metres by GB. Holmes, A. Penning-fon, and" A.W, Sweeney, Sweeney was beaten by inches in the hundred Yards championship. by a Netherlander, but the critics agree that a that time he had still some way to g0 before he was at his best and stale that the longer distance Ie will have fo run in Berlin will_sult him. Berlin, "however, "he will" be up frainst America's crack sprinters who hold' the world's record, which dim Inishes his chance of being more than placed, "In D, O.. Fislay,, who. is faptaining "the British team, " that country has a high hurdler who is Gonsiered fo "be the Dest in Europe, standard' of the Destin. the. United though perhaps not quite up
'States. 'The 00 metres has for a long] time' been looked. upon as one of Britain's perquisites in the Olympics. Britain has won the event at the las four Olympic meetings, but this year the prospect is not quila £0. bright, a strong threat coming from Ben Eastman of the United States, Britain has go many fine runners from whom choose that her chances in the relay events are very B00d-qualities of sportsmanship on which, work of the mission, many stations having to be evacuated owing to the the last resort, the success of the games depend, Apprehensions, based movements of the Reds under pres-on former experiences, should be sure from Chiang Kal-shor it is dealt dismissed, No-one could expect an with fully yet concisely, 40 the great international gathering of such a size benefit of General Chiang's Feputalon, "The average resident in the to be able entirely to exercise the human' defects which inevitably freaiy ports who read every. day provoke occasional misunderstand-claims of successes by the Govern-Ings. Such, however, is the almost ment against the Reds and occasional authoritative summaries of the situa-[phere Ju which the games have open: ion' which sometimes discounted fed that there Is every reason to' be Heve that the competitors. will gon-these claims, could have no idea of erally iso tothe occasion. A London the suffering' the Reds inflicted upon [despatch has expressed misgivings on he people, or, indeed, of the narrow the subject, but it would be sad in-escapes that foreign missionaries. had deed if the generosity of the German In the Interior, - Mustrating those committee and the unexceptional at-Jescapes, the report tells how a group titude of the German public failed fof foreign missionaries were actually {to inspire the requisite o-operation. in Wuting, Yunnan, when the Reds Fears of that kind will, t is firmly captured the city, and only escaped believed, prove groundless and the by jumping down a broken part of eager devotee of sport should be able the wall of the city, and crawling and to concentrate on the reports to be scrambling through' fields and ditches telegraphed during the next fortnight fand brambles unfit they reached a with the "gratifying conviction that place of safety. But more harrow-they will show "a high standard of ing are the tales of the sufferings of athletic allainment and an equable Fivalry between' the different" com= people, reduced. already to an ox-Chinese people themselves, "the peliters, "In the Far East the Games tremity by the exactions and oppress will be watched with alt the greater sion of their warlords and other gov-Interest "because" of the welcome ferners, in many places were inclined news. that Japan has secured the to welcome the Reds as deliverers—privilege of holding the Games of but only until they had realized that 1940, "This the little finger of the Communists was thicker than, the loins of their predecessors, and' where they were TTocyo on its account will be shared formerly chastised with whips, the gvery sporcman ili China. wine Reds could chastise them with scor~ Mods Gisppolatnent will be ap: pions, The report quotes the follow. Dprovated and it i along to Dut on ing from Pingwu, Szechuen Foca tug view tata arent 'The sufferings of the Pingwu people {fed 1 lookttorward toa favourable inoly sporting country should be enuring' and. after the Med "occupation
decision on ie calm. when the fan curely he dower. fed" occupation. the. east of: the Werty now resulting from two Sangement ofthe Gamer for" 154 province fs as nothing compared with Somer up for conaldertion {hat resulting from their forty. days occupation of Pingwu. To this day me months later=famine. and peste Mu. Joseph William Ballantine, fence "are. the. common Jot of the popular American Consul-General at people. "At best the conditions could Mukden, is returning home on leave, tut "deteriorate during the first accompanied by Mrs. Ballanting and half of 3890, but as it is. the. road their daughters Misses Betty, Alice held ¢rom' end' to end by number: and. dele Ballantine. They left ces brigands: no" grain' is being Mukden on August 1 for Dairen ana {imported and the local slock of seed had been exhausted, and. the. plight Kobe where Mrs, Ballantine and her the people in" months' 10 "come Gaughters will board the s. imagination, sident McKinley, bound for the From the missionary point of view United States, while Mr. Ballantine fan encouraging note Is struck when will proceed to Tokyo and will stay dealing with the effect of the Com-there for some time, Mr. Ballantine, Hmunist persecution of Chinese Chrlsregarded as an authority on tians, who seem to have come through frst went to Japan student interpreter, yy the progress fiependent and self-supporing=ia fe potted to be uniformly" good
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