1955-04-30 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL

1955.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL •

PRESENTATION of new

Colours by HRH The Princess Royal to the 7th Battalion, the Wor- cestershire Regiment.

· The Princess Royal

salutes the Colours. Officers with the Colours are Lt D. P. K. Gaunt and Lt R. Q. Cavanagh.

LEFT: Group Captain Peter Townsend on the scales in the jockeys' room at the Brussels race course, where he rode Mr D'Ockhuysen's, Nimrod to victory.

Townsend, whose dame has long been linked with Princess Margaret, again made the news as the subject" of a disputed statement by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury in South Africa. (Central)

A fortune in solid gold gels á dusting from London dancer Jacqueline Curtis, 18, who wiekis the feather brush over an 18-piece dinner service worth £15,000.-- It will be on show at the coming British Industries Fair. (Reuterphoto)

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HILLMAN HUSKÝ

PEARL BAILEY, star of the Broadway musical, "House of Flowers," which is to be seen in London shortly, The musical is the most opulent new show in New York. Pearl Bailey slops the show with her sensational song, "One Quite Man Ain't

Enough."(Express)

ENCI

AUSTRALIAN racing driver and author Fred J. Thwaites seen in London with his wife and two sons before they set out on their 12,000-mile journey by car to Australia. He plans to write another book based on his experiences during the trip. (Express)

WINNING eight bouts out, of ten, the Army gained the Imperial Services boxing championship by beating the Navy and RAF. General Sir Cameron Nicholson, President of the Imperial Services Boxing Association, presenting the trophy to

QMSI F. Verlander, trainer of the Army team." (Army News)

RAPIDLY rising above the rugge

countryside at Aultguish

in Rose and

Cromarty, is the Glascarnoch Dam, part of the northern Scotland hy

scheme. The immense concrete str

It will contain a reservoir formed supply, will be piped to Luichart

will be 1728 feet long and 95

waters of the

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NANCY

WHO'S

I JUST SAW A

WONDERFUL NEW MOVIE?

INT?

HM Submarine Acheron (in background), com manded by Lieut-Commander Peter Hay, RN, leaving Gosport, Hants, on a trip round the Cape, of Good Hope to Trincomalee and back through the Mediterranean. The trip will take about six months, and during the cruise observations intended to in- crease scientific knowledge of the earth's crust will be made. (Reuterphoto)

IT'S FULL

OF NEW STARS ---

A bedraggled oil smeared swan is hooked by & RSPCA assistant on the foreshore of the Thames at Putney be fore being taken to a depot for cleaning." It will be kept ashore until the plumage returns to normal. (Reuterphoto)

AND THEY DON'T TALK --- MUST BE "" THE LATEST THING

OUT:

By Ernis Bushmiller

NOW SHOWING FRANCIS XBUSHMA WILLIAM S HART PEARL HITE

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MAND

RUDOLPH VALENTIN

THIS unfamiliar aerial is designed to be used for receiving both BBC and commercial tele- vision programmes in Britain, and is one of several being shown at the - Radio edustry Council's exhibition in London, (Reuterphoto)

BLACK MAGIC

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