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· THE · CHINA MAIL,- SATURDAY, MARCH 22, -- 1952.

SEVEN British Army officers who have just returned home from Korea, where they all won decorations, had a reunion dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London the other night. Here they are, from left: Lient Portal, Capt. Murray, Lieut Butler, Major Huth, Major Butler, Col Lowther and Capt. Morris. (Express)

AT the South London We sh Society's St David's Day dinner at the. Welsh Hall, Batter- sea: Four-year-old Susan Phillips, the youngest member, attended in the national .ecstumo of Wales, which she was. wearing Tor the first time. (Express)

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RIGHT: Major-General W. P. Oliver, Chief of Staff of Eastern Com mand, presenting. challenge cup for the best all-round cookhouse in the Command to the Messing Officer of the: 1st. Coy, Proof, and Experimental Establish- ment, Shoeburyness. (Army News Service);

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THE "People's House," which Mr Harold MacMillan, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, recently recommended to local thorities to effect economies and bring about a higher rate of building, is shown above at left as it stood in this year's Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia. The house costs £1,000. Re- erected in the middle of the model village, the centre: piece of the exhibition, was the 600-year-old wayside cross of Meriden village, on the Birmingham Coventry main road, seen above. (Army News Service)

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FIRST night of "Navy At Sea" at London's Comedy Theatre. Making her West End debut in the show was Margaret Wakefield, and she is pictured here after the performance pinning' up the many telegrams of congratulations that she received. (Express)

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Richard Walter and his brother David, 11, 'went to Tilbury to welcome home the-Bedser cricket twins. The boys wrote 'to Alec, and Erle Bedser when they were in Australia this winter, and they wrote back asking the boys to meet them on their return. To each boy they presented a cricket bat autographed by the Australlan and West Indies teams, (Express)

-RIGHT: The spell of milder weather coming after the cold has brought on the crop of Spring flowers in the Sellly Isles. Here workers are picking Helios daffodils for desprich ไป London and other centres,

BELOW: Three Common- wealth High Commissioners → (from left) Mr Witeyrathe of Ceylon, Mr. Fred Doidge of New Zea land and Mr Krishna. Menon of India-photo- graphed at a reception in London recently, (Express)

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Clement Attlee arriving with 'his daughter,Alison, Great Missenden Parish Church, Bucks., for her wedding to Mr Richard Davis. The bride is 21..

LEFT: Putting the finish- ing touches to one of his portraits is Alan Taylor Shiors, 64-year-old City oflee housekeeper, who becomes a painter when he descends to his buse- ment fiat. His "allters bayo included Lord and Lady Denham, Lord Chattisham? and jockey

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