SOVIET’S “SPORTS DAY”
WIDESPREAD CELEBRATION HUGE PARADE, IN MOSCOW LONDON, July 1. (Received July 1, at 8.45 p.m.) The Daily Herald’s Moscow correspondent says “ Sports Day ” was celebrated in hundreds of Soviet cities. In Moscow 110,000 youths and girls, clad in shorts and' bright red jumpers, paraded in Red Square before M. Stalin and other leaders. Boxing gloves, oars, tennis rackets, footballs and other sports articles were carried as symbols. A group of tiny children carried a banner “ Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for a happy life.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 9
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86SOVIET’S “SPORTS DAY” Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 9
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