Tokyo, May 12.
Traffic congestion between the Philippines and Japan may lead to the absence of a Filipino team from the East Asiatic Athletic Meeting scheduled to open here on June 6, Domei learned today.
Because a shortage of cabins, the Japan Amateur Athletic Association requested the Filipino athletes to be content with third-class passages, The Philippine A.A.U., however, asked that second-class passages be provided, whereupon the Japanese submitted a compromise under which the members of the Filipino team would be served first-class food, beles being allowed to use the decks r training, should they travel third. lass in a Japanese ship.
In case the compromise is rejected, the invitation to the Philippi in be withdrawn.—Domei,
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