1951-10-13 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1951.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

THIS is a picture of the Buhl Room in Buckingham Palace, inside which His Merfesty the King underwent his recent severe operation.

He is making salis-

factory progress.

(Express Service)

YOUNG Prince Charles and baby Princess Anne arrive home from Balmoral with Nurse Lightbody. The young Prince seems to be anxious to get home to see his mother and father before their departure for Canada. (Express Service)

MRS Odette Churchill, famous for her undercover work during the war with the French Resistance, was in France recently when thieves rifled her London home and stole her George Cross and Legion of Honour decorations. Her husband's

DSO was also taken. (Express Service)

CAPTAIN O. P. Jones, who was in charge of the Stratocruiser in which Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh crossed the Atlantic, with the stewardess who attended the Royal couple, 30-year-old Jean Gordon. (Express Service)

THE Burmese Military Attache and Mrs Ba Han gave' a party recently to introduce the Chief of Staff of the Burmese Air Force. Picture shows Mrs Ba Han (right) with Mrs Zaw Win, wife of an Embassy off- cial, in their colourful dresses. (Express Service)

ENGINEERS adjusting mechanism of telephone coin boxes in the Strand to take the new charge of threepence, Adjustments were made one minute past midnight on the day the new charge came into force. (Express Service)

RIGHT: The Sopranino, 18-foot yacht that two Londoners, 31 - year - old Patrick Ellan, the skipper, and 23-year-old Collin Mudde, will sail across the Atlantic, She did the 600 miles from Falmouth to Corunna in 11 days. (Express Service)

BELOW: YOUNG children try to get a photo of Buddy, newly-born sea lion at the London Zoo. With a little encourage: ment from his keeper, Buddy obliges. (Express Service)

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AFTER the prorogation of Parliament, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Col Clifton Brown leaves the Speaker's. House with Mrs Brown. They have lived there for more than eight years. Col. Clifton Brown has been a Tory MP since 1918,

(Express

Service)

RIGHT:

Britain's second broadcasting 'system, a “closed circuli” one, operated by two young men and

their friends. In Hull, Yorks.

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They use t

A equipment and relay their programmes through

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