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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1952.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
SGT Davies, a Welsh miner and a member of 282 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery (T.A.), has his British Empire Medal pinned, on him by General Sir Cameron G. G. Nicholson, GOC-in-C Western Command, acting on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. The ceremony took place at Cardiff. Sgt Davies has been in the Territorial Army for 33 years.
PICTURED here aboard
the liner Rangitane at Southampton is Lord Freyberg, VC, with his wife. Lord Freyberg has just given up his post of Governor-General of New Zealand. (Express)
HELLO-AGAIN-ENGLAND wave from King Feisal of Iraq. He recently returned from a trip to America to visit the British Royal Family at Balmoral. His uncle, the Emir Abdul Illah, accompanied him. (Express)
AT her birthday party held in London, Princess Mirian, wo-year-old daughter of the Sultan of- Johore, pushes the pram for a four-year-old guest, Mary Lyres, daughter of a Greek shipping agent. (Express)
DIVER James Magennis wearing the VC which he won for sinking the Japanese cruiser Takao by fixing limpet mines to her hull. Magennis sold the medal -kast-month to a Belfast dealer because he needed money, he said, for clothes for his children. The dealer later gave him back the medal (Express)
FEEDING the chickens and ducks, aided by their royal father and mother, are Princess Margaret (3%) and Princess Helen (2), children of ex-King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma. Picture was taken at Ayot House, Ayot St Lawrence, which the ex-King has rented from Lord Brooket. It is close to the home of the late Bernard Shaw. (Central Press)
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CHORUS girls from the London Hippodrome were selling flags the other day in afd of the Comforts Fund for Troops in Korea. One of them, Shirley Scott, is seen in the picture planing a flag on a young clark.
THE annual congress of the International Brotherhood of Magic. lans met at Hastings last week, and six hundred experts from all parts of the world attended. John Graham performeð a spectacular feat-on the beach when he was sealed in a box and put on a fire. He is seen emerging from the box unharmed. (Central Press)
NANCY
JOE
Do-sign-ing Mala
FRED LOVES
NANCY
LOVES NANC
PICTURE shows the latest style in battlefield headgear
WH
with the new lace
prominent. These three were taking part in Operation Holdfast,” held
in the British Zone of Germany,
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By Ernie Bushmiller
I WANT PEOPLE TO
THINK TVE GOT 'A POPULAR GIRL
LARRY LOVES NANCY
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