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✅ THE" "CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.
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HER MAJESTY the Queen talking to Colonial students during her visit to the British Council's Residence for Colonial Students in London. The three students on the left are from Nigeria. Fourth from left is Mr Arthur Garcia, of Hongkong, who is studying law in London. (Express)
THE Sovereign's Parade this year at the Royal Military Academy, Sand- hurst, was taken by General Sir Cameron Nicholson, who depulised for the CIGS, General Sir Gerald Templer, away in the Middle East for con- ferences. Gen. Nicholson is here presenting the Sword of Honour to Senior Under-Officer A. L. Crutchley, who made his- tory by being the first cadet from Rhodesia to receive the award. (Army
News)
A workman aloft on scaffolding guides the 58 ft Christmas tree into position in London's Trafalgar Square. The tres, a gift from the people of Norway, has come from Oslo. It is being lit every night until Christmas. (Express)
SOME of those present at a Christmas party at the Players Theatre, London. From left: crack distance runner Gordon Pirie, ace horse- woman Pat Smythe, yacht designer Uffa Fox and former world cruiserweight boxing champion Freddie Mills, (Express)
A hangman's rope was hung in an Ilford church chancel during a Sunday ser- vice. The vicar, the Rev. John Wesley Stone, slipped his head Into the noose, pulled it tight, and said: "If you had your just deserts now, all of you would have your feet kicking. So would L." He was criticising the death penalty in a sermon at St John's. (Express)
ONE of the largest groups of ships of the Royal Navy ever to go up the Thame has just paid a visit to London. It was made up of 16/coastal and inshore min
sweepers from the 282, 104 and 105 Squadrons. Berthed
The Best India Docks, the ships were open to, t
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SAMPTE AVIA
BELOW: George Crocker of Middle- sex, who has an unusual skill. He's a pig tickier. By stroking pigs near the shoulder he sends them to sleep. He touches a nerve connecting heart and brain. (Express)
BRITAIN'S largest captive carp is In the Aquarium of London's Regents Park Zoo. It weighs 44 lbs. Here
It is accepting A anack from Aquarium overseer Fred Akhurst. (Army News)
LIONEL BRITTON, playwright and novelist, who has completed the unfinished manuscript of a comedy left by the late Bernard Shaw. He has sent the play to the Public Trustee, without whose permission it cannot be produced. He says he has tried to make the plece "typically Shavian.” (Express)
NANCY
I HAVE AN AWFUL HEADACHE--- I GOT HIT ON THE HEAD
TODAY
WHY ARE YOU? HAPPY ABOUT GETTING HIT! ON THE HEAD?
THE new St Colomba's Church of Scotland in Pond Street, Kensington, London, which has been rebuilt on the site of the old church destroyed by German air attacks in 1941, is in the final stages of completion. It contains the second largest organ in Britain. The largest is in the Royal Festival Hall. (Army News)
I OPENED A CLOSET BY MISTAKE ANTODAY
By Erale Bashmiller,
I'M OFF TO A PART. SAND I'M TAKING
ROWNTREES CHOCOLATE.
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