1948-09-07 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1948.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

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MASKED BEAUTIES Legs--beautiful legs that's all that counts in this contest. These seven masked girls were selected for the semi-finals in a beautiful leg contest at Ocean Park, California. So that personalities would not alter judges' decisions, the girls name (and faces) remained undisclosed. They are, left to right: student model, Culver City; student model, Santa Monica; student model, West Los Angeles; secretary, Los Angeles; student, Los Angeles; drum

majorette, Inglewood, and night club cigarette girl, Hollywood.

HOME OF CHRIST-A Nazarene drives his donkey down to the village of Nazareth where Christ spent his childhood. Formerly Arab-held, the Area,' after ' a quick capture shortly after first truce ended, is now held by Jews,

KEEPING COOL-It takes a lot of water to keep an elephant cool on a hot day, and even more to keep three of them cool, but these Philadelphia Zoo residents have solved the problem nicely. Splashing and having fun are Burma (right)

followed by Peggy and Babe.

SHIPS AHOY-These young skippers are but a few of the 150 participants in a sall-boat race at Newport Harbour, California, where 50,000 persons stood on the shore to await the first one to pass the finish line.

OF DISASTER AND DEATH-Acrid smoke still hangs over the gaping hole where once a six-storey building stood in the middle of the L. G. Farben Chemical Plant in Ludwigshaven, Germany. More than 300 were

reported dead and 2,500 injured in the blasts that destroyed a large area of the huge plant.

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HOT TIME AT THE OLYMPICS-With the temperature hovering. In the nineties, this vendor outside the Empire Stadium at Wembley found plenty.c reddy customers for his sun helmets among the sports fans attending the XIV Olympiad In London.

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