1948-04-21 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

GETTING READY TO SMASH- ATOMS The 30-ton top section of a coll tank arrives at Columbia University's nuclear physics research centre at Irvington-on- Hudson, New York. It is part of what reputedly will be the world's most powerful cyclotron, weighing 2,500 tons when completed,

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL--The bronze statue of the late President Roosevelt is lowered into place for the memorial dedicated to him in London. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the former President, unveiled the ́ statue last week

HECKLER-Two polleemen stand by as a picket heckles an employee leaving the New York Stock Exchange. The Wall Street financial centre kept its quotations going out despite the Arst strike in its, 156-year history.

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ACTRESS –– Beauteous Doris Day of the films wears a two-plece suit of lastex fabric interwoven with silver thread.

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FREEDOM'S NAME -- Carlos Bernard of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, is all set to celebrate Puerto Rico's 50th anniversary as a U.S. possession. The island was liberated from Spanish rule in 1898. Bernard decks his bicycle out with trimmings and flags for the occasion,

TAKE-A-BOW-Ferruccio-

Burco, eight-year-old Italian musical prodigy, takes a bow after conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert nt Carnegie Hall, New York.

BREAD FOR THE HUNGRY—A Salvation Army truck distributes bread to eager Chinese at the Haining Road Market in Shanghai. Helping to relieve the food shortage, the Salvation Army there gives away each day 1,500 12-ounce loaves of "Men Tou" (steamed bread).

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SMOKED FISH-That's about all that's left after a $300,000 fish cannery fire at Benicia, California. The flames, fed by fish oil stored within the buildings, des troyed a two-block-long cannery. The fire was so badly out of control that firemen were afraid to risk using the city's drought-depleted water supply, and fireboats had to walt for the tide to rise to get in close enough,

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