THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONTE
ANOTHER FISH STORY-George C. Thomas, of Los Angeles, California, displays the record 857-pound fish which resisted him for almost five hours at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia. Thomas was a member of the American team in the sixth International Tuna Cup Match and his team won the three-day contest.
A NEAR TRAGEDY-If the collision between an Army ambulance and a school bus In Hempstead, New York, had happened minutes earlier, the bus would have been loaded and casualties would have been almost certain. Luckily, the bus had just discharged Its passengers and the ambalance had dropped a patient at a nearby air base. The vehicles skidded on a wet highway and crashed. Cpl. Clyde. W. Bull, 23, of Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania, waits for another ambulance to pick him up. The bus driver was also slightly injured.
OLD SWIMMING HOLE IN BERLIN German children awalt their turn for a plunge in a “war-made” swimming pool. The buildings had been a fashionable tourist resort until Aliled bombs turned them into a recreation centre.
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AS THE ROMANS DO-Although he is surrounded by melons from the time he gets to work, this youth in Rome, Italy, still likes to personally dispose of the watermelons that drop accidentally, or otherwise. Romans like the melons as much as we do.
PROTESTING THEIR LAYOFF Workers from the Breda Mechanical Works in Milan, Italy, block the streets in protest against layoffs by the company. They had demonstrated earlier in front of the com- pany's downtown affices, but had been dispersed by police squads,
"THE RICHEST GIRL” Barbara Hutton, once known as "The Richest Girl in the World,” posed for photographers in sho New York when arrived from Europe on Queen Elizabeth. the She will undergo exten sive medical checkups.
SHE VIEWS THE PRESS Sigrid Belevaid is obviously, the targel of cameramen covering the arrivat of the 88 General Ballou In New York with the first contingent of immigrants from DP camps of Italy. The 29-year-old Latvian girl will live in Manhasset, Long Island,
PANTHER'S ROAR The US. Navy is giving its pilots heavy fight training with the new Grumman Panther, a jet fighter plane, American pilots claim the Panther is the answer to big planes like the B-36. This jet roars down the
flight deck of the USS Boxer, off the California coast, for inkeoff..
LAUNCH TIME The Genepesen is launched in the Free Territory of Trieste shipyards as the Best of six ocean-going fshing ships to be built with Marshall Plati An Italian company will use it to fish in the
waters off Newfoundland
HE MUST LIKE HER The bearded gentleman doesn't ordinarily let anyone play with his soft, gentes, but he made an exception for little Carolyn Bateman when she visited him at a zoo in London, England. As a matter of strange fact, the animal'seems rather pleased.