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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER ≥18, 1952.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

THE Arelic baby, Anton Rodahl, and his mother, 31- year-old Mrs Joan Rodahl, snapped at London Airport on their way from Alaska to Oslo. The baby was born in an American Air Force hospital in northern Alaska while the father, a Norwegian doctor and geologist, was near the North Pole doing Arctic research work. (Express)

MISS Shirley Strickland, 27-year-old Olympic gold "medallist and record breaker she did the 80 metres hurdles in 10.9 secs prepares to sail home. to Australia. She is seen here at her London fat with her Olympic blazer. It has a collection of 53 badges pinned under its lapels. (Express)

THE great conductor, Arturo Toscanini, bows to his orchestra at the end of his second concert given at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The master was given a tremendous ovation. (Express)

THE busy scene inside an underground control room of an anti-aircraft battery "somewhere in Kent," where positions of "enemy" aircraft are plotted, as they approach the outer London defence area. Picture was taken in connection with Exercise “Ardent.”

ABOVE RIGHT: Miss Ursula Wood and Mrs Cecil Day Lewis, wife of the post, pictured with Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams at his 80th birthday dinner, given by the Incorporated Society of Musicians. (Express)

MAJOR. D. S. Barker:

Simpson, one of the party

rescued from the Hastings

aircraft which crashed on

the North Greenland ice-cap, walks away with the aid of crutches from the plane which brought them to the RAP station at Topcliffe, Yorkshire,

AFTER 22 years' service abroad, the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, recently returned home to Brecon, and were given a grand welcome. Lt.Col C. F. Fox, the present Commanding Officer, was a subaltern when the unit: first came to Hongkong In 1980. Here he is seen saluting as he marches at the head of his men past“the saluting base,

MRS M. M. Beaumont of Sittingbourne, wife of the Secretary 'to the St John's Order, prepares the Corona tion robe of the Archbishop of Canterbury for an ex- hibition for charity, at Maldstone, Kent. VIS. countess Allenby opened the exhibition, which showed; besides Coronation robes, also replicas of the

Crown Jewels.

NANCY

I PAINTED A TARGET FOR MY ARCHERY

SET

Clean Shot.

LEFT: Four boys who went to the Television Children's Hour to compete for the title of Conker King. Con- kers is a national game with British schoolboys during the autumn and winter. It la played with dried horse- chestnuts on a string, the object being to swing the conker and smash your opponent's chestnut. Lam Lyons, the champion; ““is' second from right.

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