THU HỒNG KÔNG TRIGP WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8, 1948.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
COMMUNISTS PARADE-Portraits of Communist leaders are carried through the People's Square in Rome in a parade preceding a meeting to raise funds for the support of Communist newspapers.
WINS ALBERT MEDAL-Eleven-year-old David Western, à Boy Scout, of Acton, London, shows his Albert Medal to his sister and cousin outside Buckingham Palace after his Investiture by HM the King. David won the award for rescuing a coutpanton who fell through the ice while skating on a frozen lake.
A FRIENDLY PAW-Lassie, the famous collie of the films, extends a friendly paw to a calf on a visit to a farm., Lassie was acquired by Rudd Weatherwax :
exchange for a $10 bill for board.
NEW BOYS' TOWN HEAD-Monsignor Nicolas H.Wegner, now director of 'Boys' Town in succession to Father Flanagan, the founder, who diéd recently, greets one of the boys in the gymnasium of the famous Nebraska
settlement.
-TELEVISION PUPPET-Jolo, the clown, is one of the. characters in a puppet show which is being televised in serial form in New York.
FOG IN PARIS-Many parts of Western Europe were under unusually thick fog last week. This picture' was taken at night in a park in Paris,
'JOHN DOE - AND JUNIOR-—John Doe, whose name got him into all sorts of complications, photographed at his home in Bad Axe, Michigan, with son, John Jr. In order to cash a pay cheque, John Doe once had to get a special letter from the factory where he worked.
LONDON FESTIVAL SITE-Rubble, from wartorn buildings is being cleared. from the south bank of the Thames to provide a site for the London Festival, planned for 1951.
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POWERED PIONEER BLIMP-An 11-foot propeller and 20-horsepower engine from the U.S. Army's first blimp were exhibited recently, in connection with the irst anniversary of the U.S. Air Force becoming a separate arms of defence.
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