1956-02-04 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MATE,' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, ̄ 1956."

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THE Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, snapped as he drove to Southampton from London to board ship for the United States for his talks with President Elsenhower. The newly-appointed Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, accom. panied the Prime Minister. (Express)

LEFT: Hancocks, the London jewellers and silversmiths who manu- facture the Victoria Cross, are keeping very much in the background during the centenary celebrations of Britain's highest award for mill- tary valour. But here is a picture of a VC being chased by a workman at Hancocks.

meta! The comes from bronze cakNyn captured at Sebastopol during the Crimean War. (Express)

PRINCESS MARGARET arriving at the Drury Lane Theatre to attend a preview of the new American musical comedy, "Plain And Fancy." The PrinceBR broke a Royal tradition by entering the theatre through the front door instead of the special side entrance. (Express)

JAN MAJOR, 38, ex- Royal Marine officer (left), and his one-man crew, Major Gordon illars, also 38 and also ex-Marine, aboard the 25-foot motor sailer Buttercup, in which they are to sail ACTOSS the Atlantic on an 8,800-mile voyage. Scene is Row- hedge, Essex, where their craft is being filled out for the journey. (Reuter- photo)

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Sweden's Anita Ekberg, former beauty queen who is now a fast- rising Hollywood star, pictured on location in North Africa for the film, "Zarak Khan.” Anita's costume nearly caused a riot because local native women called it too re- vealing. (Express)

CARBARET star Yana is offered a drink by Mr Bryan Johnson at a gay party held at London's Pigalle for stage and screen celebrities. The Pigalle in this instance is not the Paris stretch of gay pave. ment but a London night club. (Express)

MISS Edith Chun, who is one of eight Hongkong giris now training in England as BOAC air stewardesses, shows her instructor, Mr John

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Miss Chun will By оп routes between Hongkong and Calcutta, and Chinese food will be served.

BETTY TAYLOR, 20-year-old Glasgow girl, has withdrawn her offer to marry anyone who would pay £1,000 to help clear her father's debts. She is pictured with one of the suitors who called, 80-year-old James Burna, a plumber from Newcastle-on-Tyne, Her offer made front page news throughout Britain. K(Express) f

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SEAT of the world's foremost municipal parliament, London's floodlit County Hall makes an impressive sight'at night from the Victoria Embankment across the Thames. The lights enhance the beauty of its central crescent colonnade, The building cost nearly. £31⁄2 milllons to erect, and was opened in 1922 by King George V. (Banews)

TWO young visitors from Middles. * brough, Yorkshire, Philip and Pamela Lee, say hello to Amber, a six-year-old fox held by keeper Iris Daley at the Zoological Gardens, London. (Army News)

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MRS Ariadne Constantinidou, 48- year-old Cypriot twice attacked by masked gunmen after Athens Radio accused her of spying against Cyprus terrorists, being helped off a plane at

· London Airport. She is in London for treatment for her wounds. (Express).

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