ROME GAMES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29246, 2 July 1960, Page 13

ROME GAMES

Record Number Of Entries

ROME, July X A record number of 78 countries have entered for the Rome Olympic Games with only a few hours from the expiry of the entry deadline at midnight. One of the last to send its official entry form was Russia. . Besides Russia, countries officially entered are:— • Afghanistan, the Bahamas, British West Indies, Dutch West Indies Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium. Bermuda. North Borneo, Brazil, Bulgaria. Colombia, Canada, the Philippines, Denmark, Finland Guatemala, Ghana, Czechoslovakia, Ceylon, Iceland. South Korea,. Cuba, IreiapX Ethiopia, 1 Fiji, France, Germany. Persia, Jugoslavia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Japan, Greece, Britain, Hong Kong. . India, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malaya. Mexico. Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, New Zealand, Holland, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Poland, Portugal. The United Arab Republic. Nationalist China, Bhodesia, Rumania. the United States, San . Marino. Sudan. Sweden, South Africa, Surinam, Switzerland. Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey. Uganda. Hungary, Uruguay. Malta, Pakistan, Spain, Venezuela, Italy. Yacht Safe.—Marine authorities in Port Moresby today called oft a sea-air alert for a 40-foot yacht, the September Song, feared missing off the north eoast of New Guinea. The yacht is on its way to Fiji, the authorities have learned.—Port Moresby, July L