THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1952.
• HOMESIDE PICTORIAL.
PRINCESS Margaret stäpped-at- Liverpool Street Station early last month when she left London by ordinary train for Sandringham to rejoin the Royal house party after her holiday in Scotland. (Central Press).
JOCKEY Brian Marshall, who rode the Queen's horse, Devon. Loch, second in the Mortlake Novices Steeplechase at Hurst Park, amuses Her Majesty and Princess Elizabeth with a graphic description of the race.
MR Anthony Head, Secre- tary of State for War, inspects a card from the Reproducer / Comparer machine during a visit to the Army Records, and Pay Office at Foots Cray, Sidcup. The perforation's ол the
card represent the full details of a parti
cular soldier.
AT the diplomatic reception given at Claridges Hotel by the Saudi-Arabian Âmbassador to London, Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. In the picture, the Ambassador's daughter, Buthayna, aged 22, is adjusting her father's headdress on the Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Albert Sciver. (Express).
BROADSIDE view of one of the new Neptune aircraft which the United States has just turned over to Britain. The plane, fitted with the latest radar and electronic devices for the detection of submarines, is claimed to be the answer to the U-boat menace.
́THIS is the BOAC crew that took Princess Eliz- abeth and the Duke of *- Edinburgh - to Kenya this week. 'Two of BOAC's most experienc- ed pilots were in charge. of the flight. In com- mand was Captain R. C. Parker (extreme left), whose second, Captain' T. B. Stoney, is next to him. Picture taken at London Airport.
LEFT: Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service, Miss Betty Byng (left) and Miss Daisy Blackmore, who will-'do:: welfare work in Pusan, Korea. Miss. Byng, daughter of Lord Tor rington, has spent four years in Malaya and Hongkong with the WVS. (Reuterphoto).
KING Michdol of Rumania sits in the back of a Bristol freighter at Blackbushe Airport just before taking off for Paris. The freighter was flying his car, and the -young King went with it. (Central Press).
RECENTLY the Bishop- of Colchester made an appeal on behalf of one of England's oldest parish churches which is in great need of restoration, The church la St. Bart- olph's at Hadstock, near. Saffron Walden, in Es sex. The greater part of the church, as seen above, was built about 40 years, hefore the Norman Con *quest. On right is a yiow. of the interior. Authorl- tleg
have asserted that this church is the "Eminy pter of stone and, limo", which King Canute and Archbishop - Wulfstan "“hallowed" in 1020 for the souls of the men slain in that historic fight.
(Central Press)
THE famous ballet star, Alice Markova, has rotare ed to London from Monte Carlo to receive electric treatment for her right ankle, She fore, a ligament last autumn while dancing in Glasgow,, Bho was de- termined to keep her engagement in Monte Carlo, but it proved too much for her. · (Express),