1949-04-04 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1949.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

PAKANHATTAN MARKET CO !”!

MAKING A CHANGE-At the mouth of the Connecticut. River, near Hartford,

a section of a drawbridge is floated away on barges.

Flooded with water,

the barges were manoeuvred under the section, then emptied. When they rose in the water, planks on the barge decks pushed up against the section and

freed it from the bridge.

WHAT'S

ALL THIS?-Marilyn Stevenson, five months old, looks bewildered as she arrives at New York's LaGuardia Field with her mother. They are en route to Ecorse, Michigan, where her English father, William Stevenson, Is working in a car factory.

NIGHT LIFE-While fellow fire-fighters enter the bullding at all levels from the fire escape, a fireman, foreground, prepares to climb to the roof of a theatre on New York's Eighth Avenue. The blaze was of undetermined origin.

DISABLED WELDER

-An amputee veteran of Chicago, Illinois, in training' at a welding school, demonstrates his ability at the Chicago Production- Show. The loss of a hand does not prevent him from becoming an expert welder.

LEAVING FAST-When the Big Blue River 'overflowed its banks at Beatrice, Nebraska, trucks, cars and The crowds in the background are ‘all available means of transport were used for evacuating the town,

seeking some menns of transport to higher and safer ground as the flood waters continue to rise.

WORKING HIGH-These stilted men are tying hop lines in Kent. This picturesque, method of farming is rapidly disappearing from the English scene as modern methods and machines increase agricultural output.

DIFFERENT

GREETINGS-As Queen Elizabeth waves from a balcony in London, while inspecting some new flais, other occupants signal to some of their frlends from above.

TUBE STATION-When completed, this will be the Colosseum station of the Roma underground rallway. Labourers have been working full time to ensure its completion in 1950, in order to relieve the overcrowded situation of the

city's tubo aystem!

NEW USE Parislan Jeanne Desses uses a cross-check scarf as a flat peplum, swings it around into a pannler, then brings it up over the left shoulder.

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