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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, APRIL

1960.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ABOVE: Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong- Jones arriving at the world premiere of the new film "Once More With Fool- ing", the last made by

Kay Kendalt before her tragic dooth last year. It co-stars Yul Brynner.

ABOVE: The Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, has the papors in his hand, giving the latest nows on the South African emergency, as he rushes into No. 10 Downing Street on his roturn from his H-bomb¦' talks ‹ with President Eisenhowor.

ABOVE: The Duke of Edinburgh takes a look at his hand after he had had his finger prints takon during a visit to the famous department at Scotland Yard. The Duke was making a thorough tour of the world famous headquarters of, Lon- don's Palica. With the Duke is Superintendent S. Drew of the Fingor-print Department.

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RIGHT: Some 20 hours after the whisky ward- house fire which killed 19 Glasgow firemen, Princess Margaret visited' the scene. Sho had asked especially to be shown tho spot bofore flying back to London after a Scottish visit which had included a visit to the 3rd Submarino Squadron in Loch Gara. First estimato of tho fire Foss was made by the British Insuranco Association, and put the damage at certainly more than £2 million, and possibly over £5 million. If it docs reach the £10 million earlier mentioned by a representative of the owners, it will have been the most expensive fire since the Great Fire of London in 1666.

ABOVE: In 1865, Charles Dickens' friend the Swiss actor Charlos Fechter sont him a do-it-yourself kit that makes modern versions look like toys. It took up 58 packages, and contained a full size two-storey Swiss cholat. Dickens had it orected in the grounds of Guds Hill, near' Rochester, used it as a secluded study during the last five years of his life, and on the day he died spent several hours there working on Edwin Drood. Later it was re-aracted at the Kont home of the late Lord Darnloy; now the Dickens Fellowship is appealing for £1,000 for help in rostor- ing it and moving it to the Eastgate House Dickens

Museum at Rochester.

ABOVE: Fifteen thousand people jammed into Trafalgar Squaro for a rally organ- ised by the Labour Party to protest against conditions in South Africa. The meet- ing was calm and the guard on South Africa house had nothing to do. Thon ce the meeting onded, police started to break up the crowd, in their usual gentle fashion. And as they streamed into Whitehall a small group of youths chanted: "Long Live Mosley"." And that triggered off the crowd's suppressed emotions; with wild whoops they set off in pursuit, Police caught up, broke up the scaffle. and took off the Mosley supportars in a van. And then someone shouted ""To Mosley's headquarters"; the Fascist loader's offices are in nearby Victoria Stroot, and the forty or so police around wore powerless to stop some 400 demonstrators reaching thom. But soon there were over 100 extra police on the spot, and the street was cleared after half-an-hour's fighting. Picturo shows Labour Party former chairmon Barbara Castic speaking from to rostrum at the rally.

ABOVE: Holidays are hard work for the 40 members of the Nanson Club of Hereford, a unique organisation just one year old and designed by the local assistant commissioner of Scouts to keep older Scouts in the movement, and to attract youths' from the coffee bars. Each weekend they are out rock-climbing or ski-ing in the Black Mountains on the Hereford-Monmouthsire bordar; and in April 11 of thom-plus Tim, a dóg belonging to a member-ere setting out for Norway to spend their annual holiday living in caves dug out of the snow, and haring cross-country ski training in Arctic conditions. Picturo shows Tim the dog joining the club on a climb in the Black Mountains.

By Ernie Bushmiller

ABOVE: Eight children, including Princess Anno (above) alf under 12 were named as bridosmolds for the wodding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones on May 6. There was some surpriso that the Queon's cousin Princess Alexandra of Kont has not been choson, but the reason is almost certainly that Alexandra measures a stately 5′ 9′′ against Margaret's 5' 12. In fact Alexandra is as tall as the groom. The childron picked, apart from Princess Anne, are Catherine Vexoy, 6, daughter of Armstrong- Jones' sister Viscountess Vooy; Lady Rose Nevill, 9, daughter of the Marquis of Abergavenny; Angola Nevill, 12, a cousin of Lady Rose and the daughter of Lord Rupert Nevill; Marilyn Wills, 12, daughter of Major and Mes John Wills; Annabel Rhodes, 8, daughter of Mr and Mrs Denys Rhodes; Lady Virginia Fitzroy, 6, daughter of the Earl and Counters of Euston Sarah Lowther, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Lowther,

ABOYE: England's tom- captain porary cricket Colin Cowdray heard in the West Indios that his wifa Ponny, 26, had given birth to her second son, Robert Jaramy Colin. the Then he oponed Innings for England in the

final Tost-and was out for a duck, Picture shows Mrs Cowdray and day-old Robert.

NANCY

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A BAD HEAD- ACHE

I'VE GOT TO LET OFF

A LITTLE STEAM ONCE IN A WHILE

WELL,

DO IT

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MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!

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