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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY

1949.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

CHEROKEE

ASHORE SAFELY-Safe and sound, these survivors of the Argentine tanker, Él Captain, are happy to reach Norfolk, Virginia, aboard the Coast Guard cutter, Cherokee. The tanker broke in two off the Virginia coast, leaving 16 men on the front end and two more on the stern section. The entire crew was saved.

ITALIAN ART--Mario Vannini Parent arrives in New York from Florence, Italy, holding

a picture of the Donatello statue of San Lodovico. The 10-foot 120 masterpiece and Italian paintings will be displayed at the Wilden- steln Gallery.

KOREAN DIPLOMAT RECEIVES DEGREE Dr. John Myun Chang, left, Korean diplomat and distinguished Catholic layman, receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brother B. Thomas, F.S.C., president of Manhattan College.. Francis Cardinal Spellman, centre, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Collego, presided at the New York presentation.

HOLIDAY CHEER-Songwriter Irving Berlin, left, and comedian Bob Hope give actress Jinx Falkenburg a ride on un "Operation Vittles" coal chute in Berlin. The Americans spent a few weeks recently brighten- ing things up for the German airlift personnel.

ON ITS WAY-The Shinnecock lighthouse in Hamp- ton Bays, New York, comes tumbling down after being blown up by engineers. Built in 1857 and not used since 1931, the tower's foundation was ripped

out and a torch applied.

· TELLS OF SOVIET HORROR-Gerhard Ricffenstahl, 18, still wearing the rubberised suit issued to him during his forced labour in a uranium mine in the from Erz Mountains, tells the story of his escape Saxony to a Western Sector policeman in Berlin. The youth, who said he lost 35 pounds in two months, estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 persons are working in the mines under squalid conditions.

WHAT 'WEATHER!-Empire State Building em. ployee Louis Petely lays claim to the title of coldest man in New York. A gulde on the observation tower of the 102-storey skyscraper, he spends many a moment hanging on to frost-bitten cars.

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ON LOCATION AT EIFFEL TOWER-With the rooftops of Paris as a back- drop, and the Eiffel Tower as location, Charles Laughton (left) and Franchot Tone (right) act out a scene from "The Man on the Eiffel Tower," first post- war full-length American picture to be made in Paris.

TURBO-JETS-A worker gives a final tune-up to Pratt and Whitney JT-6B Turbo-Wasps In an East Hartford, Connecticut, plam. With tail pipes pointed unconventionally upward, the jet engines of 5000 pounds thrust are equivalent to almost 9000 horse- power at today's aircraft speed.

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