THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
REBUILDING ABBEY-Reconstruction is progressing on the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy. The abbey was ruined by a final hombing on March 15, 1944, before its capture from Germans by Polish and British troops. Top: The abbey as it appears from the rear today. Bottom: A girl tourist looks at statues
which are being rebuilt in the courtyard of the monastery.
GRAPES-Jenny McAferty is holding a bunch of grapes grown near Las Vegas, Nevada, on land irrigated from artesian wells.
RIGHT-Valerie Hobson, stage. and screen actress, wears a gold clip to keep her scarf in place as she watches the Inter- national Air Races in Kent.
PROSPECTING FOR OIL-Scientists are working from vessels off the Californian coast for three oil companies to assay the geological structure of the Pacific Ocean bottom in a search for petroleum. Left: A powerful explosivo is touched off 14 feet beneath the surface, starting an artificial earthquake of shock waves which give clues to the contours of the sea floor. Centro: Michael McGillycuddy sits before an electronic maching which records the shock pattern. Right: Bill Booth, veteran ell sleuth, heads the crew.
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REPAVING PARIS STREET-Workmen resurfacing the Champs Elysees, Paris' main artery, replacing blocks of wood with stone. The Arch of Triumph is in the background..
OBEYS MASTER'S VOICE-Jim Walker of Portland, Oregon, launches his radio-controlled, gasoline-powered model plane during a demonstration at Detroit. A football helmet holds the equipment which enables Walker to manoeuvre the plane in the air by talking to I.
CAUGHT IN MIDAIR-Carol Lynne, 21, New York theatre ice skater, executes one of her graceful ballet leaps as the camera's stroboscopic light freezes her in midair.
TALKING HORSE-Mrs Lorere Kemp, housewife of Kansas, Illinois, and mother
of six, demonstrates, in Chicago one of the tricks she taught her 14-year-old
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