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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.

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HER MAJESTY QUEEN, accompanied by the Dean of Westminster and followed by the Duke of Edinburgh, leaves Westminster Abbey after attending the British and Foreign Bible Society's thanksgiving service.

(Express)

RIGHT: The largest postwar parade of Bri tain's Home Guard took place the other day at Wembley. Seven hundred men representing all the Home Guard battalions in Middlesex, together with the 6th Herts Battalion, took part. Here Lt-Gen. Sir Francis Festing, GOC- in-C Eastern Command, inspects the men. (Army News)

PROFESSOR Albert Edward Richardson;. 74-year-old architect, who has been elected President of the Royal Academy in succession to Sir Gerald Kelly. He once described the modern age as that of nylon, pylon and skylon. "Rome in ils decline, with its orgies and entertainments, is mild compared with the vulgarity of today," he said. (Express)

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PRINCESS MARGARET attended the performance of "Cinderella 'on Ice" in aid of the Young. Men's Christian Association at the Empress Hall, London. Princess is being presented with a bouquet by Miss Betty Van Laré,

from the Gold Coast. (Express)

'THE famous old sailing clipper, Cutty Sark, launched at Dumbarton in 1869,

making her last voyagé, undertow from the East India Dock to her permanent

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berth at Greenwich.

SOME of the 2,000 magnificent white turkeys being market at Monkton Court Farm, at Minster-in-Thanet,

seen carrying a protesting bird back to the

NANCY

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It's Only A Poem

TWAS THE-NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS RAND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE ---

LEFT: The Countess of Dalkeith, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Mc-. Neill of Hongkong, snap- ped at a party given in London to celebrate actor A. E. Matthews' 85th birthday. (Ex- press)

PICTURED here is underwater explorer and photo- grapher, Hans Hass, with his wife, Lotte. Together, they attended the London premiere of their film, **Under The Caribbean,” and they are demonstrating one of the underwater cameras they used in the film's making. (Express)

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“ALADDIN” – Is this

ear's Chelsea: Palace Comine. The Mayor of Chelsea, Councillor Guy Edmiston, gave a reception, the other day, to- duce the cast. Here la Violet Pretty, one beaustion, stepping into a baby car to take her to the

party

By Ernie Busker

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