THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1954.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
THE Duke of Edinburgh went to the preview of the exhibition of scientific films and ather visual educational aids at the Senate House, University of London. His Royal Highness is being shown a new British projector. (Express)
LITTLE Susan Curtis holding the Victoria Cross which was won by her father, Lieut. P. K. E. Curtis, during the Imjin River battle in Korea three years ago, when he was killed. Susan, now seven, went recently to Buckingham Palace to receive the award from Her Majesty the Queen. (Express)
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Inspecting the Yeomen of the Guard in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Queen is standing between Lord Onslow- (left) and General Sir Alan Adait as she watches the Yeomen of the Guard march by in their historic uniforms. (Express)
THE discoverer of penicillin now works in a new, larger laboratory attached to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Sir Alexander Fleming, white-coated as above, is there daily continuing his work.
PART of the traffic pile-up outside Smithfield Market, London's great meat trading centre, on the first day of derationing. There' was chaos - traffic chaos as well as price chada as butchers rushed to be first. (Express)
GORDON PIRIE, -athlete of the year, resting in bed at his home in Coulsdon, Surrey, following a foot injury which kept him from a White City track meeting." A pair of German "warming up" shoes dug into his instep during training, (Express)
MUSSOLINIS 16,year-old grandson, Count :Mario Ciano, is in England for two months to learn English, His mother is the former Italian dictator's oldest daughter, and his father was Foreign Minister during
the Fascist regime, (Express) VERS
MERSEYSIDE'S United Nations Boys' Club, holds week-end camps at Ness, Wirral, Cheshire, Irrespec tive of colour, class and creed, boys from overcrowded city areas are able to romp in the fresh air. Here Kenny Rhodes jumps between_two" friends,” Kenny Ng Soo from China and Philip Francis from Nigeria. (Express)
NANCY
ALL THE KIDS ARE “MAD AT ME.
I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO PLAY COWBOY ALL.
VOLONE
FIELD MARSHAL Earl Alexander, Minister of Defence (left), Major-General Sir Lealle Williams, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. and General Sir Ouvry L. Roberts, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, vialling the packing section of the Central' Ordnance Depot at Chilwell, Notts, the
and most important RAOC depot in the United Kingdom. (Army News)
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