1948-08-17 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

HARVEST TIME-SⱭll using the same tools and techniques that were good enough for great- grandfather, these Arabs in Palestine busy themselves harvesting the summer crop. Grain is removed from the stalks by horses' hoofs, then separated from the chaff with sleves.

IMPROMPTU ACT-Giving vent to whatever suppressed musical desires harboured within her, two-year-old Wendy Ann Rabe wandered from mamma to make this impromptu appearance with a band playing at Chicago's Railroad Fair. The crowd was delighted with the new "leader.**

STALIN BIRTHPLACE NOW A MUSEUM-This is the house in Gori, capital of Soviet Georgin, where Stalin was born. The house is now a museum. This photo was released by the official Soviet picture agency.

BLOW TO BEER DRINKERS-Firemen battle the blaze which levelled half of an eight-sforey plant of a malt company in Detroit. The company supplied 70 percent of the malt going to local brewers. Four firemen were injured in the $1,000,000 fire.

SHIPBOARD QUEEN— Jacqueline Brabant, 17, of Brussels, Belgium, who коп an "Inter- national Queen" contest on board an ocean liner en route from the Orient to San Francisco. Five different nationalities were competing.

IN THE ARMY NOW This first group of American 18-year-olds to reach Fort Dix on the volunteer programme receive new uniforms at the clothing and issue branch of the 9th Infantry Receiving Section, They will serve for one year in the U.S. Army. Recruits are examined initially at Fort Dix before

being moved elsewhere for basic training.

HOME IS THE SOLDIER-Audle Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, literally swept Hollywood starlet Wanda Hendrix off her feet when ho found her waiting for him upon his return from France. Conterning, their rumoured marriage, Wanda sald, "Don't be surprised any time.” Wanda was recently seen here in "Ride The Pink Horse."

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SHORTAGE—This German nurse in a hospital in the American sector of Berlin uses a candle to make her nightly rounds of an Infants' ward." Tho Berlin blockade has caused a severe shortage of electricity, with its use greatly

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