THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
-WARM-EARTH—R_H. Gibson shows his Vulturene Guineas the source of the warm earth in their 'pens. Laid six Inches below the ground, the cables keep the pens at 70 degrees. Lower temperatures would mean death for many of Gibson's 4,000 tropical birds.
SUNNY DAYS-With crops freezing elsewhere in the United States, these Lake Alfred (Florida) girls keep their oranges in a treasure chest, Smiling, they
relax on the grass before an afternoon on the beach.
TO AID SHIPS The British Minister of Transport; Mr Alfred Barnes, right, and inventor William J. O'Brien check a decometer sending apparatus in Puckeridge, England. The Lane Identification Service will send radio waves to enable ships to fix their positions.
TOP TOPOGRAPHY-Pilot of a B-29 flying high near Seattle gets this overall view of some of Washing ton's mountains. From 40,000 feet one sees, in the foreground, the 9671-foot peak of Mt. St. Helens and, in the background, the 12,307-foot Mt. Adams. These two peaks are covered with snow all the year round.
WAR WAIFS-Homeless, these orphans gathered off the crowded streets of China squat on the ground to eat their first meal in many days in Shanghai. · They are some of 117,000 hungry walls being fed by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund..
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HOLIDAY. Bonita Granville poses in the latest St Valentine's Day costume. In 17 years in Hollywood, she has posed 250 times in dresses representing special days,
THE NEW BOS8 Cadet Jerry Lauer shakes hands with Maj-Gen. Bryant E.. Moore, new superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, In a colour- - ful ceremony at West Point. Gen. Moore succeeds Maj-Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, who has assumed new duties as Chief of Staff, European
Command.
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WOMAN BULL FIGHTER-Returning from a Euro- pean holiday, Conchita Cintron, right, internationally known bullfighter, arrives in New York. En route to Mexico, she will participate in bull fights until April. Her companion, Babá Cadaval, is the youngest daugh ter of the Marchioness of Cadaval of Portugal.
FIREWORKS Belle Wong, left, and Fay Fong tako an inventory of their supply. of firecrackers for the recent Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco,
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