1929-03-16 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.

THE CHINA MAIL;

OUR HOMESIDE

PICTURE SERVICE.

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER-Out hunt-

ing, attending the meet of the Belvoir Foxhounds at Thorpe Arnold, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. HiR Royal Highness appears in this photo after a hard run-(Sport and General).

SHROVETIDE COMMUNITY FOOTBALL,--The 700- years-old custom at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, on Feb. 12. The whole village took part in the game which progressed through streets, lanes and rivers, the respective goals, two water mills, being three miles apart. Combatants are seen in the river working the ball down. In some places the ice was broken to keep the game going.-(Sport and General).

SOUTHERN RAILWAY MAIN LINES BLOCKED.—— A crane collapsing near Lewisham Junction, London, about midnight on Feb. 10 delayed all trains on the London-Dover line of the Southern Railway. Our picture shows the jib of the crane in the garden...... (Sport and General).

H.M. KING GEORGE LEAVING BUCKINGHAM PALACE IN A SPECIAL AMBULANCE FOR CRAIGWELL

HOUSE, BOGNOR, SUSSEX, FOR THE FIRST STAGES OF HIS CONVALESCENCE. CROWDS GATHERED

TO CHEER AND WATCH HIS DEPARTURE-The ambulance containing the King leaving Buckingham Palace--

(Sport and General).

PRIVATE MONOPLANE, OF GENERAL BOOTH. Photo

US millionaire, Mr. Van Lear

Black, on which he left England

for China and elsewhere

business. (Sport and General).

on

taken at his home at Hadley. THE "BERENGARIA."—Fitting Wood, illustrating progress to- wards complete recovery. He is

the new 55-ton rudder in dry seen here with his daughter, dock at Southampton. Catherine Booth. (Sport and General).

and General).

(Sport

KING'S CONVALESCENCE-HM. the Queen leaving Buckingham Palace just after the King's departure. (Sport and General),

"VILLE DE LIEGE."-Belgian steamer on rocks at Dover harbour, seen at half-tide on Feb. 12 after the storm.-(Sport and General),

ARCTIC WEATHER AT HOME.~Fantastic scenes at the London docks, where ateamers arrived at Bill-` ingsgate Market covered in ice last month when Europe was snow-bound Photo shows the ice being chipped away from a steamer from the North Bea (Sport and General)..