1949-11-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

1949.

PICTORIAL

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NEWSFRONT

BUYING EARLY

Germans ine up in this West Berlin delicatessen shop to buy their Christmas geese on the instalment plan. The price of 10 westmarks, equivalent to nine American dollars, is a little too sleep for most Germans to pay in one lump sum.

THEIR PLANS WERE STYMIED-Members of the shore party from the USS Cavaller wade out to pull a landing craft loose from the beach at Coronado, California, during practice landings for exerciso "Miki." in the joint Army-

Navy manoeuvres.

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HE KNOWS WHAT HE LIKES-Pete, a cat owned by Mrs G. Harenberg. of suburban Evergreen Park, near Chicago, Illinois, prefers a diet of horse meat and water. He doesn't like milk and demonstrates how he leaps from the floor. into the sink to get a drink of his favourite beverage.

TOO LATE-Wilma Carlberg crouches in the snow in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to gather the last bouquet of the season. Freezing temperatures in the vicinity gave the shrub no hope for survival and it looks as though Miss Carlberg went a-picking a little late.

NATURE'S POWER IN ACTION Nature's relentless power has created an amazing world of slowly moving lee on Fox Glacier, New Zealand. But its pinnacles, sharp ridges and deep crevasses are no obstacles

for amateur Alpinists who have expert guides.

ON HER WAY UP Starlet Goraldine-Brooks, -in- Hollywood, California, dresses for some ladder- climbing in the favourite outfit of American college girls. She wears blue jeans, socks, sandals and a knitted turtle-neck sweater topped by a linen cardigan.

GETTING ACQUAINTED

Radio announcer Lucio Bosco jokingly holds the microphone out for an Intro- ductory mod from this baby, gayal, a new arrival in the Rome Zoo. The animal was sent over from the U.S. to help replenish the animals which were destroyed in the zoo last year by a strange malady.

SUDDEN MIX-UP-The driver was critically injured when this car struck tram in Los Angeles, California, and was pinned inside the wreckage for half an hour before Bremen could extricate him with acetyleno torches His car swerved suddenly and crashed Into the trolley.

MAKING CLAIM-Vir- ginia Questa. Is checking her Notice of Location" of a placer mine located in the heart of 'Reno, Noyada. Her gesture might start another gold Tush.

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MINK AND PINK-Erna Rossman, a former "Miss Switzerland, poses in New York in a mink coat. Erna was runner-up to the winner in a contest sponsored by the Fur Institute of America.