HIS Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh presenting the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Regimental Sergeant-Major B. Hilller, DSM, after an inspection of the First Battalion, Welsh Guards, at Windsor recently, The Battalion will be leaving for the Far East shortly.
HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent chatting with Victoria Elliott after the performance of Verdi's opera “Laisa Miller" on the first night of the Sadler's Wells opera season, Miss Elliott sang the title role. (Express)
SHOWING a Japanese fan to Mr Christmas Humphreys is Mrs Hugh Orr-Ewing, the only Japanese lea mistress in Europe, after she gave the first public per- formance in Britain of the Japanese ceremony of Cha-no-yu (way of preparing lea) before an audience of 300 at Bedford College, Regent's Park. (Express)
POINTING to the area of a supposed atomic explosion on a model of the City of" London river, and dock system is. Mr.J. B. Patterson, Principal Officer of tho London Region, Civil Defence.' Forces," at a preview of a secrèt exerciso designed to study the problems, which would result, from, an atomic explosion over the London dren. He is watched by Mr-E. C. Allen, Principal Scientific Officer of the Home Office, and Mr. Bi W. Martin, Deputy General Manager of the Port of
London Authority.
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
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PRINCE Alexander of Yugoslavia arrives at the Stoll Theatre for the first night of the Ballet Espagnol Pilar Lopez. He is accompanied by Alm actress Zena Marshall, attired in a blue mink stole. (Express)
FIELD Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (left), who is C nel of the Somerset Light Infantry, receiving an engraved scimitar from Li-Gen. Sir John Swayne at the War Ofce. It is inscribed "From His Brother
Officers In The S. L.I." (Army Newa).
NORFOLK fruit farmer Hubert Showell, aged 45, pictured prior to his departure from Southend Muni- cipal Airport on a solo attempt to fly to Perth, Australia, by way of France, Italy, Greece, Karachi, Singapore. Timor and Northern Australia, in his single engine Auster Aiglet aircraft.
PACKING for his journey to Moscow is Sir William Hayter, Britain's new Am-' bassador, Lady Hayter (centre) travelled with her husband, but their 14-year- old daughter Teresa went back to school at Sevenoaks, and will only see her parents during the Christmas holidays, which she will spend in Moscow. (Express)
TWO girl students of the London School of Economics — raven-haired Erica Fuchs (left), aged 21, of Hampstead, and brunette Sylvia Fisher, 19, from Edmonton who set off in July for Sweden with single tickets and £5 each, have just returned home with their capital intact. Erica worked for a paper exporter in Gothenburg while on holiday, and Sylvia translated English correspondence in an Insurance office. Next summer they hope to do the same in another country. (Express)
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THE Marquess of Milford Haven (left) helped to run a cocktail party committee meeting in London recently, during which details were arranged for a charity dinner and ball in aid of the West Ham Boys and Amateur Boxing Club, of which the Marquess is President. He is seen chatting with Mrs B. Pearson and Mr Henry Freedman. (Express)
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