1953-07-18 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1953.

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Miss, Edith Piti, Tory victor in the Edgbaston by- election, is seen here with Mr Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power, at the House of Commons, Miss Pitt. 46. Is the first woman from a working · class family to be elected as a Conservative MP. (Express)

DURING her Coronation visit to Northern Ire- land, Her Majesty the Queen visited Queen's University. The Chan- cellor, Viscount Alan- brooke, is walking along. sitle Her Majesty, follow- ed by the Duke of Edin- burgh and the Vice Chancellor, Dr Eric Ashby, (Express)

QUEEN SALOTE of Tonga tried to slip away from · London quietly at the end of her seven 'and a half weeks' Coronation visit. She planned to leave her Kensington hotel without fuss, but was not allowed to, icave, uncheered. 'Queen Salote paused on her way to her car and said to the applauding crowd: "You say I have won the heart of your island. Your island has won mino for ever. 'I

shall never forget you." (Express)

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viscoUNTESS Cowdray (centre) ceives one of the guests at the Coronation ball given-by-the--English Speaking Union at their headquarters in Charles Street, London. Vis- countess Cowdray and Mrs Brooks McCormick. an American (left). were joint hostesses. (Express)

M. FRED LIP, president of a leading French watch- making firm, who has just lectured at the British Horological Institute in London, showing his "elec- tronic" wrist watch which will run without winding for two years on a battery, no larger than a coffee bean. The lattery may then be replaced.

THE famous. Sherpa guide, Tensing Norkay, who reached the top of Mount Everest together with New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, is seen' here at the Kensington Palace Gardens reception given by the Nepalese, Ambassador. With him are the Rani. Shanker (left), wife of the Ambassador, and the Rand Sridhar. (Express)

LEFT: The floor is cleared at midnight and on to it come tennis champions Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly and Vic Seixas to dance alone at the Wimbledon ball held at London's Grosvenor House. (Ex- press)

MR Walter Reuther, President of the powerful US labour body, the Congress of Industrial Organisations, pictured on his 'arrival in England with his wife and daughter en route to the World Conference of Trade Unions in Stockholm. Beuther is 45, and has been boss of the 61⁄2 million strong CIO since December.

THIS is the memorial to officers and men of Commonwealth air forces who lost their lives in the last war while scrying from bases in the United Kingdom and Northwestern Europe and who have no known grave. It overlooks the River Thames and historic Runnymede, where in 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta. It will be unveiled by the Queen in October. (Reuterphoto)

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HERE we go again. Curiouser and curiouser (as Allee said); are the efforts to adapt "Alice in Wonderland". ng) a show. It failed as a play.. It flopped as a film Now the book-with-the-jinx in a ballet. Anton Dolin has just presented it in London." Above: Belinda Wright as Alice and John Gilpin as the White Rabbit. (Express),

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