THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
WINGED INVASION A restaurant employee in Allentown, Pennsylvania, swings vainly at moths after the bugs closed off the entranco of the all-night spa. Spray guns and smoke pots brought the winged inva- sion under control. Hot weather was blamed for it.
SALVAGE LUMBER LOST IN FIRE—One of the biggest log drives in the history of the province of Ontario is now taking place. The Canadian government is salvaging nearly 16 million board feet of pine logs from the large area burned last summer in a fire which covered more than 000 square miles. Seen here river men on a log raft are diverting huge logs into the twin portals of tunnel drilled through rock to divert the Mississagi River around the tunnel power project. ›
GLASS DISK TO ENGLAND. The world's third largest glass disk, a 97-inch, 10,500-pound slab, begins its journey from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbour. A gift to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, the disk will be ground for a reflecting telescope.
LET ME TRY THAT-Chela, chimp star in Hollywood, never had it so good. He just loafs in the sun with Pat Hall, the latest jungle queen of films, and rubs sun. tan oll on her before going on location. Pat's expres- Hion indicates that Cheta really knows the job.
NEW SUPER FLYING BOAT—This is the U.S. Navy's ultra fast XPGY-1 patrol plane, shown nearing completion in San Diego, California. Grossing more than 60 tons, it has four propeller-turbine engines to give it more power of aeroplane weight than some modern fighter planes. The XP5Y-1 is scheduled to make test flights this autumn at San Diego,
CLOSE RANKS-Laughing children and grown-ups watch the antics of pompous new arrivals at the London, England, Zoo. Gentoo penguins have not been seen there for many years, and these were flown to London from Montevideo after their capture at sea. The Gentoo, slightly smaller than the King penguin, breeds in the Falkland Islands,
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COMPETING These two yachts competed in the British-American Cup Races at Cowes, England. The British vessel Thistle, left, and the British Circe are In the team race of four. American and four British
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PREPARED-When ever it begins to rain, actress Marie Wilson, In Hollywood, is well pre- pared with her plastie raincoat and fabric um- brella
IT'S HOT IN PARIS, TOO-Catherine Giraud, three,. has no trouble coaxing her younger brother, Patrick, to take some ice cream in the garden of the Tuileries, near Paris, France. Her only difficulty was in getting some for herself:
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