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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 7

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MOSCOW BROADCAST BY N.Z. MASTER (Rec. 710 p.m.) LONDON. April 11 The New Zealand chess master, Robert Wade, who is vice-president of the International Chess Federation, said in a Moscow radio talk that the Soviet Union was the post-war Mecca of chess players. This was because of the advanced development of the game there. It was a privilege to be invited to Moscow for the current world championship match between Botvinnik, the title-holder, and Bronstein. Wade gave a comprehensive commentary on the course of the match. He said that it, as previous world matches, would be a source of ideas for players all over the world and fruitful ground for research by chess analysts for years. Motor-cycle Speed Record.—A 38-year-old German. Wilhelm Here, yesterday broke the world's 500 e.e. motor-cycle soeed record by reaching a speed of 288.347 kilometres an hour (about 179 miles an hour) over a measured mile of the Munich-Ingol-stadt autobahn London. April 12. Poliomyelitis in NAW.—During the seven days ended yesterday, 25 cases of poliomyelitis were reported in New South Wales comoared with 88 cases in th? week ended April 6. Some authorities rav that the epidemic has passed its peak. So far this year there have been 873 cases compared with 196 in the same period of 1950 —Sydney, April 13.