THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1948.-
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
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ARAB LEGION CAMP-This is one of several large Arab Legion camps in the Trans-Jordan at Amman. The Legion is trained by British officers, and camps such as this one are maintained under terms of
Britain's treaty with King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan.
"GIVE US RAIN" While whent on the Kansas borders is doing fairly well, farmers In the mid-state wheat land, such as Jay Fellers, above, pray for rain.
The drought resulted in dry topsoil, crusted fields, lack of crown root de- velopment.
DE GAULLE POSTER GETS RED PASTING-Posters announcing a speech of General Charles De Gaulle are smeared with red paint as Communists in Marseilles strike out against their arch enemy. De Gaulle urged Frenchmen to forestall a Communist Invasion of France..
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RECORD PINEAPPLE CROP-It's pineapple time in the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico is harvesting a record crop, ranking after sugar and tobacco.. Cultivation of pineapple gives employment to more than 5,000 persons. Pincapple slips are plant- ed from June to February and the fruit is ready for picking, in about 14 months. Here, pickers pile up the pineapples for crating in the pineapple fields near Manati,
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RIDING FOR THE HAGANAH-A Haganah girl dispatch rider speeds along the road from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem on her motorcycle. She is one of many now fighting for the new state of Israel.
NO FEELING-Born without a sense of feeling, baby Beverly Smith of Akron, Ohio, is able to endure a pin prick without noticing any pain, as demonstrated by Nurse Helen Zimmerman,
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STARS ON BROADWAY-Ingrid Bergman, left, and Charles Boyer attend the opening of Ingrid's and Boyer's new film on New York's Great White Way. The proceeds were given to the American Overseas Ald-United Nations Appeal for
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