THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949-
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
FOR RESCUE WORK-Picture shows a new sub- marine rescue buoy developed by the US. Navy, Released from the escape hatch by personnel in a dla abled craft, it rises carrying a wire cable which unrecls automatically, A rescue chamber can be lowered along the cable.
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VANISHING. ART-Costantino Marlo of Florence, Italy, puts finishing touches to a leather folder. Machines are now turning out the products which, hand-finished, once were the envy of the world. The work, however, still retains some of the grace of the originals.
RUSSIAN YOUTHS-A youngster, ankle-deep in water and in his bathing trunks, prepares his hydro- plane model, fitted with a rubber motor, for a flight In an aircraft model contest on a lake somewhere In warmer regions of Russia. Photo was released by the official Sovlet news agency.
ATOMIC ENERGY AT REST-Mine Foreman Ed Nelson points to a narrow upper stretch of pitchblende found near the old ghost town of Caribou, Colorado. Uranium, the basic material of atomic energy, is refined
/from pitchblende.
FALSIES!!!-Movie comics Lou Costello, left, and Bud Abbott lend a hand to Clyde Beatty as he its the Hollywood elephant, Sidney, with artificial ears for
a film. The Indian elephant has smaller ears than the African variety, but is substituted because it is easier to handle.
EXPECTING SNOW?- Janis Carter has an eye to the future. as she models this camel-hair polo coat. Big collar and cuffs make for extra warmth.
IN ANCIENT 'ROME-Workmen clear the way as the mouths of two underground tunnels take shape under what was once Rome's Central Railway Station.
The building was almost entirely levelled by
Allied bombers during the war. The long-planned project is finally under way, and engineers hope that part of the underground will be finished for the 1950 Holy Year.
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SPRING DAY?—Nothing like a balmy day in mid-winter as these sea lions enjoy a cool shower in the Bronx Zoo, New York. It may be winter according to the calendar, but it's just another day to them.
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