THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949.
WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
HOME AT LAST-Sailors fight to hold back the crowd as the first shipment of Cyprus refugees released by the British authorities arrive in Haifa. The $8 Galila brought 1,500 back to the homeland they had tried to enter, only to be detained on the island in the Mediterranean. Thousands of people came down
to the boat landing to welcome the refugees.
FARMER'S DAUGHTER
Betty Akers, 18, has been clutching that rake ever since her selection as 4 typical Southern California country girl to head the Los Angeles farm-fair.
FLYING COMFORT--Plane passengers between New York and Buenos Aires are provided with the latest sleeperetto seats. For day travel, left, a leg rest unfolds from beneath the seat. At night, the seat lowers to a horizontal position making
a bed six feet, six inches long."
HABIT FORMING-Charles H. Goren, right, of Philadelphia, is presented the William E. McKenney bridge trophy in New York by the expert after whom the trophy is named." It was the fifth time in 11 years that Goren had received the award, given annually by the American Contract Bridge League. McKenney's bridge articles appear regularly in this paper.
NO STONE UNTURNED-To supplement meagre fuel rations, Berliners are searching everywhere for wood.
Here a couple of householders are removing a tree
trunk from a cemetery in the French sector.
FORMAL SKI SUIT-Christiane Deluz relaxes in the latest formal costume for skiers, as modelled in Paris. The strapless bodice, with rhinestone-flecked white wool embroidery, tops a pair of slim ski pants of gabardine. Andre Ledoux designed it,
SALVAGE JOB-Berlin women gort paving atones from Hitler's Reichs Chancellery on the Wilhelmapletz, in the Soviet sector. The Russians are systematically stripping the building of its costly Italian marble and mosaics for use in the construction of a huge memorial dedicated to the Red Army.
SCRAMBLED--Some of 31 railway waggons which piled up near Maurice, Indiana; when they left the tracks because of a faulty rail. What was once part of a freight trafo now appears to be hended for tlie scrap heap. ・
AT EVENTIDE-These girls at Cypress Gardens take time out at the day's end to pose in the sunset with their beach balls. Florida is Ideal for holl-
days and the "scenery" couldn't be better!
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