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THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

10th

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret In Edinburgh's Usher Hall, attending the opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival. Conducting the orchestra—the Royal Philhar- monic-was Sir Thomas Beecham, (Express)

ON the 89th day after setting out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a Kon-Tiki style expedition 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to England, Three French- Canadians reached their goal. They were starving as their raft, L'Egar II (The Last One) drifted near the English coast. A lifeboat towed it into Falmouth. Right: The raft, Left: Marc Modena, skipper Henri Beaudot and

Yanarkeer. (Express)

Gaston

TWO Englishmen expelled from Egypt recently pictured on their arrival al Liverpool, England. Mr H. L. Peuleve, left, was assistant manager of the Shell reßnery at Suez, and Mr Arthur Hawke Wak the refinery's service engineer. (Express)

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THE remance of 20-year-old Antony Brown was slightly Interrupted by his decision to join the Oxford-Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. With five com. panions he drove 18,000 miles from London to Singapore through desert, jungle. and mountain country, and back again. Now, almost a year later, he's back in' England with a ruby engagement ring for/28-year-old Pamela Jones. There's ... Antony on extreme left with his companions In London. (Express).

NOW in London is Sheik Isa Bin Salman Khalifah, 21-year-old son of the oil-and-pearl-rich ruler of Bahrein and heir to a major share of the ruler's £3,000,000 a year income. Said be: "We have been allied with England for a long time and want to remain so. We like England very much and hope to be back often." (Express)

WHILE the Suez Conference was on in London, Lady Eden, wife of the Prime Minister, took Mrs Foster Dulles, wife of the U.S. Secretary of State, ont sight- seeing. They are here seen at the Sixty Years of Cinema exhibition in Trafalgar

Square. (Express)

WEDDING picture of

Clare Grose and RAF Flying Officer Hedley Molland, named "miracle escape pilot" after he

baled

out nearly five

miles above the seu al

700 miles an hour. He

went out of control in a

supersonic dive. He me! Clare al the Ipswich

hospital where he re-

covered. He broke an

arm and his pelvis in the accident. (Express)

A Brigade command post, built to give the impres- sigh of being underground, is on display at the Radio Show in Earl's Court, London. It is complete with all its communications equipment including (ele- phones, the Brigadier's wireless set and radio- telephone exchange. (Army News)

MR John Cremer, 75-year-old retired civil servant recently kidnapped by Cyprus terrorists and held for more than three days before being released, is plc- tured on his arrival at London Airport from Nicosia, (Express)

NANCY

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A DATE

O.K.

GIVE MY FATHER HIS LUNCH WHEN

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I KNOW

HIM ?

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NOSE AND GREEN HAIR

WHO

LEFT: Gilbert Beale, wealthy, 87-year-old bachelor, has built a fantastic, centrally heated pavillon `in memory of his parents on his 400-acre farm off the main London-Oxford road at Basildon, Berkshire,, Mr Beale is standing by the ornate fountain, » The pavilion is in the background. (Express)

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