Emil Zatopek Wins Promotion
Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 4.
The Czech Defence Ministry has promoted Emil Zatopek, the Czech Army officer who won the Olympic 10,000 Metres, from second-grade lieutenant to the highest grade, says the Prague correspondent of the American Associated Press.
The promotion was for “ exemplary' representation of his country abroad.’’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 5
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