THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
A FACE OF PAIN-Mrs Cullen B. Morgan tries to comfort her daughter,, Charlotte Marilyn, aged 4, whose face reflects her pain. Badly burned when her dress caught fire, the child was flown from Japan, where her father is stationed, to her home in Cincinnati
TAXPAYER - Georgieholl Elizabeth Muller, only eight months old, plays with her. social security card at her home in New Orleans. The young lady poses for adver- tisements, and must pay taxes on her earnings
GRAIN SALVAGED FROM SHIP÷A salvage crow uses a pipeline to removo 80,000 bushels of grain from the ice-conted Canadian freighter, William C. Warren, which ran aground in Lake Huron. Efforts to free the vessel failed, and the crew flooded the engine room to anchor the ship. A salvage firm bought the cargo
TO SPEAK-Lord Rother- mere, British newspaper magnate, will be the .principal speaker at the annual Associated Press luncheon in New York on April 19
JET PLANE MODEL-Alice Gannon holds a model plane with pulse jet-type engine made by an Indianapolis Inventor for a contest at Chicago. It follows the same
principle as German buzz bombs
FORCED TO ABDICATE-Smiling ex-King Michael of Rumania is surrounded by newsmen in London as he issues his statement that his abdication was forced upon him and he does not consider himself bound by it..
PUERTO RICAN POWER PLANT-The Caonillas Dam, Puerto Rico's largest hydro-electric and irrigation project, nears completion between the cities of San Juan and Ponce. The US$10,000,000 plant will provide power
for new industries
NO, THANK YOU, says the fawn to Dennls McGowan, who is willing to share his ice cream cone. This scene was spotted by a photographer at a sporting show in New York City
CAIRO MEETING-Häj Amiñ el Hussein! (right), Mufti of Jerusalem, talks with Mohamed Ali Allouba Pasha, member of the Egyptian delegation to the Arab League Council, after a meeting in Cairo to discuss the Arab position in Palestine.
́ ́ARCHBISHOP AMUSED-Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Wealminster, prepares to sign a guest book for Madame La Baronne of Benaranda, of Franchimont, town councillor, at the Brussels city hall
TINY GASOLINE ENGINE One of the world's smallest gasoline engines is contrasted with a match behind a magnifying glass at a Chicago hobby show. The engine is 3/16th-inch long, weighs 26 grains and turns a two-inch propeller for a minute and a half on one drop of fuel gasoline and oil mixed
RESIGNS The Czech Ambasäädf to the United States, Juraj Slavik, walks down the Embassy drive after announclak hé la sedding his formal resignation to the new Communist-led government in Prague,
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