1955-06-04 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.

HOMESIDE NEWS PICTORIAL

A special feature of the Searchlight Tattoo tak- ing place at the White City in July will be a performance by the Arab Legion Band (the Band of the Army of Trans- jordan). It comprises 150 musicians, including bag- pipers. Six of them are here snapped stepping out at Woolwich Bar- racks, where they are staying.

AT the Chelsea Flower Show, Her Majesty the Queen

Mother, a keen horticulturist, admires the colourful

exhibits. The show was visited by all the Royal

Family. (Express)

HEAVY rain did not dampen the spirits of many who went to the opening of the summer season of the Battersea Festival Gardens in London. Clutching candy floss in one hand and a gally coloured umbrella in the other, actress Chin Yu (left) keeps the rain off herself and Josephine Griffin. (Express)

LEFT: With a helping hand from his

wife,

five

actress Jacqueline Make. peace, British bullfighter... Vincent Hitchcock takes baby Vanessa, months old, for an outing. The 28-year-old matador from Southend-he has killed more than 140 bulls has retired from the ring, and plans to become 2.31 actor. (Express)

SERGEANT "Ivor Sopp, 26-year-old British soldier who became a Moslem and changed his name to Sharif bin Abdullah, shows his 18- year-old wife, Aminah, the sights of London. And on the tour he dis- carded his Army uniform and donned a multi- coloured. Malay- outfit. (Express)

WHAT'S it like to command an American Air Force base?

An 11-year-old.

English boy found out on U.S. Armed Forces Day at Brize Norton. Martin Eagle. (above), of Oxford, was injured in collision with an American lorry and under- went several operations. The airmen ad mired his courage, and decided to make

him colonel for a day. (Express)

COLONEL James Carne, the Glorious Gloucesters' VC (second left) paraded the other day in a guard of honour. It was for 21-year-old Anne Valentine, who married Captain Stanley Davies at the centuries-old parish church of East Bad- leigh, Devon. Captain Davies is the Army chaplain" who was made an MBE for his part in the Gloucesters' stand at the battle of the Imjin River, in Korea. (Express)

RIGHT: A church ser vice and parade: tö commemorate the сеп- tenary of the formation of the Corps of Military Police was held at Inkerman Barracks, Woking. Picture shows the different uniforms of the Corps seen. Left 10 right: Ordinary present-day, uniform, a Chelsea pensioner in the uniform he wore in his day, mounted uniform of 1900 and modern No. 1 ... Dress.

(Army News)

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THEY are digging a hole at the Tower of London, And at the bottom of it they hope to find history older than the Tower itself. The history they hope to find is the remains of a Roman wall. So far, there have been no signs of it, but digging is continuing. (Express)

By Erale Bushmiller

THE Rev, Elsie Chamberlain, who is to become the first woman chairman of the Congregational Union. She is probably the first woman to head one of the great religious denominations. She ta on the staff of the BBC's religious department.

-(Express);

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