THE world champion Argentine driver, Juan Manuel Fangio, has signed on to
He took it out for six
drive the BRM, Britain's unlicky £250,000 racing car. practice laps at Folkingham, Lines.,' and proved that it has a winner's speed. He touched 160 mph on the short straight, and cornered in a shattering series of high-speed, four-wheel slides to knock 13 seconds off the lap record.
ONE of the latest anti-submarine weapons is the "Squid," which fires depth charges from a multi- barrelled mortar to fall ahead of the ship. Picture shows the "Squid" alward Britain's latest destroyer, HMS Daring. (Central Press),
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1952.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL.
Beutler 25-year-old hashelor
peer, polishes his pewter at Palace House, his ancestral home in Hampshire, in preparation for the visitors he expects when the place is opened to the public. Sightseers, each paying 2/6, are expected to number ,50,000. (Reuterphoto).
AFTER the Jockeys and Boxers football match in London, there was a dinner dance at the Dorchester. In picture, Britain's heavy. weight champion, Johnny Williams, drinks a glass of milk poured by his wife. (Express).
RIGHT: Seretse Khama's-.-. uncle, Petu Sekgomd, whe arrived in London recently with five others con- stituting the Bamangwate tribal delegation, to see British Government off- cials regarding the ban-. ning of Seretse as Chief of the tribe. (Express).
THE Centurion, Britain's marvel tank, firing smoke bombs with which it can surround itself with a
screen when in a difficult battle situation. The bomb ejectors can
be seen on the right of the gun turret. (Central Press).
LEFT: The Duke of Edin- burgh and the young Duke of Kent inspect a 1908 Napier car engine. They recently toured the Napier works at Acton, and saw research and development work. (Express).
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Angela Huth, - arriving at the New Theatre with her father, director-producer, Harold Huth, for, her first first night. The play was The Young Elizabeth.** (Express).
RACING fans can be excused for any ́ex-
pressions of surprise NANCY
at the latest, antic of trainers and owners. Two days after the Grand National, race horses were taken to seo films of the event. Here, Black Diamond. and Eastern Silver, owned by Mr Frank' Coton of Epperstone;/ view a poster adver- tising the Grand Na tional film, (Reuter "photo),
Applied Psychology
TEDDY ROOSEVELT: SAID --- "SPEAK SOFTLY, BUT CARRY A BIG STICK "
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A precision flying demonstration, with leader inverted, by three Gloster Meteor jet trainers of the RAF Central Flying School at Little Rissington, Gloucester- shire. The flying skill required to produce this unorthodox formation may he judged from the fact that the Meteor can be flown' in the inverted position for only 15 seconds. Flying of this type has always been the specialty of the CFS,
and was regularly demonstrated at prewar RAF displays. (Central Press),
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