THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
HITTING THE SILK-These paratroopers bail out of a Fairchild C-82 so fast they appear clustered together during a training jump at Fort Benning, Georgia.
WELL-GUARDED - Men and girl soldiers, carrying machine-guns, stand guard at the entrance of the Tel- Aviv home of David Ben Gurion, who is the Prime Minister of Israel.
GERMAN PEOPLE'S CAR-Here is the Volkswagen (People's Car) which Hitler promised the Germans but never produced. It is being bullt at a rate of more than 2,000 monthly in Hannover, mostly for export, Germans can buy them, with official sanction, for essential purposes, for US$1,590. The engine is in the rear, and the gasoline tank and luggage space are in front.
UNUSUAL HOBBY-Charles Brown, of New York poses with corkscrews he has been collecting for 50 years. He has 70 pieces from all parts of the world. No two of them are alike.
NEPTUNE IN HIGH HUMOUR-These watchers of high waves at Redondo Beach, California, weren't prepared for this unusually big one, and scramble to avert a drenching.
EFFECT OF BLOCKADE —The empty railyard at Halensee Station, in the western sector of Berlin, was one of city's busiest yards before the Russians
blockaded the zone.
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GREAT SEAL OF U.S.-Mary Darling holds the great seal of the U.S. which is used on the inaugural stand at Washington during the swearing-in ceremony for new Presidents. The seal has been in uso since Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.
ISLAND MYSTERY SOLVED - Picture writing symbols (ġlyphs), on stone images (top) on Easter Island, in 'mid-Pacific, have been deciphered by Dr Werner Wolff (bottom) of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, who holds a picture of an inscribed tablet found on the island. The tablet proved to be a translation key, from which he learned of feuding clans in early days.
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