1955-02-12 — Page 4

'THE "CHINA MAIL" SATURDAY, FEBRUARY.

1955.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ADMIRAL the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who will be First Sea Lord in April, inspected the parade and took the salute on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen at the Sovereign's Parade of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cadets stand stiffly at attention na he passes down the line. (Army News)

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, followed by the Queen Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh, leaves the Stratocruiser Canopus after saying goodbye to Princess Margaret before her departure for the West Indles. (Reuterphoto)

MR Ludovic Kennedy, the author, pours out a drink for his lovely wife, Moira Shearer, the ex-ballerina now turned actress, at a party at the Stork Club in London. (Express)

TEN South African schoolchildren -- slx boys and four girls have arrived in England on a three-week tour won in an essay competition sponsored by the British Travel and Holidays Association, Five of the winners are seen ùbove, From left: Wanna V. Heerden, Loretta V. Rooyen, Mercia Strydom (17-year- old niece of the South African Prime Minister), Helen Logic and Anthony Walker. (Express)

FLOOD Warning Red was recently issued by the Thames Pol

the water, had risen: 10 within six inches, cf the danger,

trolled by the Port of London Authority,

were ordered to słów down to prevent wate

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MRS Margaret Knight (left), whose anti-religious views aroused a nation-wide storm of protest after recent broadcasts, faces Mrs Jenny Morton, a Glasgow minister's wife, in a BBC studio for a debate in the “Morala Without Religion" programme." (Reuterphoto)

MEN and women spare-tinte soldiers of the Surrey Home Guard —–—– nearly 900 strong -- paraded recently at Kingston and were inspected by Lieut-Gen. Bir Francis Festing, GOC-in-C, Eastern Command. Serving as a Private is Lieut-Gen. Sir Arthur Dowler (retired), the bemedalled soldier in centre. He was formerly Chief pt Staff to Viscount Montgomery in Germany.

THE light fleet carrier Melbourne, built at Barrow-in-Furness, enters dry dock at Belfast after trials. Later this year, the 14,000-ton Melbourne will be handed over to the Royal Australian Navy. She incorporates the latest improvements of design.

BELOW: The Austra-

lian Prime Minister, Mr

Robert Menzies, who is in 'London for the

Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, laying the foundation stone of the new pavl lion of East Moseley Cricket Club.

NANCY

ERNIE

BUSHM

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WATCHING the farewell parade of the 2nd Bat- fallon, The Lancashire Fusiliers, "who are being disbanded, is Li-Col. R. R. Willis, who was serving with the Battalion when the Regimental Colour was first trooped in 1919. Col Willis won the Victoria

Cross In World War One. (Army News) -

By Ernie Bushmiller

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