THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1918.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
STILL POPULÁR-Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime Prime Minister and now leader of the Conservative Opposition, is surrounded by cheering admirera during.an_election.tour on behalf of Conservative candidate-Fred-Harris-in-the-
North Croydon by-election.
ARRESTE D ́- Gertrud
Scholtz-Klink, 46, head of the women's branch of the Nazi Party throughout the war, who was long thought to be dend, has been arrested near. Tuebingen, Germany.
PARADED AFTER CAPTURE-Greek guerillas, captured after the shelling 'of Salonika, Greece's second city, are here photographed being ' marched through a street in a small town on their way to imprisonment. Leading the group are two girl guerillas.-
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-BEACH-BEAUTIES-Spring-temperatures at Atlantic City, New Jersey, brought these bathing.girls to the beach earlier than usual,
VETERANS PICKET SHIP-Catholic war veteraris march in a picket line on a Jersey City pier where the 10,000-ton Russian freighter, Chukokta, was being loaded with tractors, farm and industrial_machinery and automolive.. parts for the Soviet Union. The veterans sought a boycott of all shipments “which might be used in war against us.”.
CITIZEN OF THE WORLD-Henry Noel, 24-year-old former Harvard University student, reads a newspaper at his home in Kassel, Germany, after renouncing American citizenship, to take up life as an ordinary labourer in Germany." He said his declaton was not motivated by any "personal dislike" for the U.S., its people or its policies.
ENVOY-Alexander Lavrishtev, 36. n trouble- shooter for the Kremlin, hos been named new U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Turkey.
NEW LINER-The new Swedish-American Heer, Stockholm, arrives in New York on her maiden 'voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden. This streamlined ship carries 271 passengers.
FIRST FLIGHT-The U.S. Air Force's new four-jet fighter, the XP87, which weights only slightly less than the famous Flying Fortress bomber, rises from the runway at Munro, California, on its first test. It remained aloft for over an
Hour.
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HAPPY THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES Senator Glen H. Taylor, Democrat of Indiana (left), and Henry Wallace are happy after Taylor announced himself a willing candidate for the Vice-Presidency on 'Wallace's third party ticket. Note the Wallace
-48" button on Taylor's lapel.
ILLONA, ✨ who went to the United States from Germany to marry-n, GL, `only to find he had married, received 1,789 proposals in a week after a newspaper : published** •hèr story. Sho marrled Minnesota' engineer.
GOODBYE, TOMMY ATKINS Members of the Inf Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry," last British troops in India, march through the streets of Bombay before leaving for home. Organised in 1685, the Regiment fought in Italy,
Normandy, Germany and Burma, during the war.