THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948.
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BOUND FOR ISRAEL-A Jewish mother makes her baby comfortable in a washing tub after boarding a Greek coastal steamer that took them to Palestine. They were part of the 25,000 Jewish refugees who had been held in camps on Cyprus.
ON HIS FEET AGAIN -Glenny Brann, 12, who had both legs amputated a few months ago after a tragle cowboys and Indians game of "burn- ing at the stake," trles out his new artificial legs at his home in Malden, Massachusetts.
THE "WINNAH!”—Representative Larry Pryor of Greenville rides "Nature Boy," last mule in a four-mule relay race against a train of the Illinois Central Railroad, over the 38 miles between Cleveland, Mississippi, and Greenville. The contest was arranged by a newspaper editor to voice citizens' protest of poor train service. "Nature Boy" baulked at the finish line, but with a little coaxing finally crossed the tape to win the race with plenty of time to spare.
VATICAN'S NUMISMATICS EXPERT-One of the least known treasures of the Vatican is the pontifical coln collection, probably the most valuable assortment of coins and medals in the world. It contains more than 20,000 different Popal coins and medals, ranging in age from the carly coins issued by Pope Gregoris III about 700 A.D. to medals issued by the present Pope, Pius XII. Here Marquese Serafini Camillo, Governor of Vatican City and a numismatics' expert, looks over part of the collection.
THREE YEARS AFTER the war there is virtually no change in the appearance of bombed out Berlin. At left
is a picture of the cathedral, "The Dome," taken just after the war. At right is the building as it is today.
GAS
PLANT WRECKED—A series of explosions resulted in this fire at an Everett, Massachusetts, gas converting plant. Nine buildings were levelled by the blast, and three storage tanks were wrecked. Damago is estimated at US$4,000,000. At least one worker was killed.
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OPERATION RESCUE-Allan Gllsch returns the puppy to grateful Barbara Ann Eddington, below, after rescuing the animal from behind the wall, above, of the Eddington's Chicago home. The family was puzzled by the faint walling in their kitchen until Barbara told them that her puppy had fallen from the attic into the space between the inner and outer walls of the house.
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SHIPBOARD GYMNASTICS Marta Bjorkland does a swan dive on her arcival with other members of the Sophia Girls, Swedish gymunst troupe, aboard the liner Gripsholm in New York. The troupe, which last visited the US. for the New York World's Fair, will take part in the Swedish Centennial Celebrations In the Middle West, this suminer.
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