OLYMPIC GAMES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 16 July 1936, Page 7

OLYMPIC GAMES.

SOUTH AFRIC ‘ V S IMPRESS. Bx-aiRIN, July 15. A police order forbids Jews to do any trading at the Olympic Games, whereby preventing foreign visitors from coming into contact with “politically unreliable’’ elements. The special correspondent of the Australian Associated Press News Agency, referring to tlie arrival of the South African Olympic representatives, declared that their magnificent physique lias impressed Berlin. Five arc over 6ft, and one is 6ft sin. South Africa is reputedly strong in athletes, wrestlers and high jumpers, but has not brought swimmers, while the sculler is remaining training on the Thames as late as possible. MARK; OF RECONCILIATION. CANADIAN GESTURE. Receievd July 18, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, July 15. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Berlin soys tlie Canadian Olympic team has brought Frau Richthofen, the mother of the M’ar ace, a fragment of the machine ,in which the Baron M'as shot down, its a mark of respect and reconciliation. The Yugoslavian Legation announces that among the 500 Yugoslavian athletes who will carry the Olympic Flame across Yugoslavia en route from Athens to Berlin, u;ill be the boy King Peter, who will light the torch at the tomb of 1 1 is murdered father and carry it a kilometre, then handing it over to the next runner.