1955-01-29 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY

29, 1956.

• HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

TEEN

AGED

Brilish

film actress Janette Scolt

is one of five stars who are going to Uruguay 0 an ad-expenses-paid holl- day of 19

Lo uays #ILER attenu a REM Iestival there. Freture shows ner With Dr Jose ARTURIO vemuurim truguayan AR-

biassioon LI LORROR, L

Senora

u

Aquadros, send-on party ut The Emosy,

Uruguay U

(Express)

A clock repairer had to be called when a heavy blizzard stopped Big Ben on the night of January 14. Snow driven against the cast face, which overlooks the Thames, had jammed the 2 cwt hands. The last lime snow stopped Big Ben was on Boxing Day, 1928. (Express)

A helicopter lands by Д cross marked in a snow- covered fleld to take mother-to-be to hospital

25 miles away. This was

one of a series of mercy

missions carried out in Scotland's two northern-

most counties, which were cut off by blizzards, by Royal Navy hoverplanes. (Express)

LEFT: Lizzie, six-year-

Mur-

a tumu at com. ATHON 2 Karens, now at iturringay, Landou, sprang prise on her owners the other day by becoming a mother. Here is the baby lama, which will be called Stormy Weather. (Express)

IN rain and thick fog at London Airport, an Istanbul-bound Viscount airliner of British European Airways mistook a turning and went tearing down the wrong runway to take off. It came to a stop after tearing steel barriers and demolish- ing a hut, and after losing two engines and having fuel tanks ripped open. This was the scene after the wild ride. Only two persons aboard were injured. (Express)

C

LONDON police stopping a torchlight procession of 400 Cypriots In Whitehall. The procession moved on under escort, singing ""Enosis"?" (Greek for union, meaning union with Greece). A delegation left a nole at the Foreign Office protesting at the action of British troops who fired on rioters in Cyprus recmily,

DURING her recent stay In Tonga, 27-year-old Noelle Sandwith requested permis- sion to paint Queen Salote. The Queen agreed. Here is Miss Sandwith back at her home in London with a sketch of the Queen and a photograph to help her with the painting. (Express)

NANCY

རྒྱུད་

AMERICAN actress Joan Shawlee, in England to make television films, had this to say: "All the Englishmen I met needed haircuta It looks like they're trying for parts in an Alec Guinness movie." Here she is challenging the London cold. (Express)

HEY--- I'VE BEEN LOOKIN'

FOR YOU

LEFT: Brigadier II. C. W. Eking, Commandant of the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, Inspecting the 'Royal West Kents at Maidstone Barracks when he was the to- specting officer at their passing-out parade.

By Ernie Bushmiller

131

THE India League In London gave a large 'reception in honour of the new High Com- missioner, Mrs Vija yalakshmi Pandit,``at Caxton Hall, Mrs B. Mansell, a barrister, is received by Mrs Pandit (left) with the tradi tional Indian greeting. (Express)

DAIRY BOX

MILK

CHOCOLATE

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