1948-04-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

NEW USAF CHIEF-Gen.

Carl Spaatz retires on July 1 as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force and will be succeeded by Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg (above), nephew of Senator Arthur M. Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee.

ITALIAN ARMY PARADES MIGHT-Units of Italy's army move down Rome's Via Del Fori Imperiali in the biggest show of power since Mussolini's day. In the procession was mobile equipment furnished by the Allies, including eight American Sherman tanks, British armoured ears and heavy mobile artillery pieces. The government left no doubt that the display, coming before the country's elections, was intended to warp Communists and reassure antl-Communists,

WINNER Annette De.

lattre was awarded a trip to Hollywood after winning a beauty contest in Brussels, Belgium.

SIXTY YEARS A PRIEST-Peter Amigo, aged 83, Roman Catholic Archbishop of `` Southwark, England, is surrounded by children as he leaves the Church of the English Martyrs, Walworth, after singing high mass to celebrate his 60th anniver- :

sary as a priest.

GREECE:

ARABS STUDY WEAPONS—Arabs armed with modern guns, receive instruction

from an officer near Nablus, Central Palestine.

WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM—Buffalo graze on the 6,000-acre Double Heart ranch, north of San Angelo, Texas. Long extinct in their wlid state, the shaggy, beasts are protected on several other West Texas ranches, where hundreds of thousands of their forbears ranged in plonger days. The herd on this ranch consists of about 20 grown animals and calves.

CONFERENCE IN HAVANA-Some of the delegates to the United Nations Em- !ployment and Trade Conference meet in Havana to finish work on a charter for a proposed international trade organisation. Simultaneous interpretation booths like those in the background help to break down language barriers.

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