1949-12-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

WATER OVER VENICE-A porter carries a pedestrian across St Mark's Square, Venice, after a high tide overran the banks of the Grand. Canal and flowed into the Square.

EGYPT'S AIR DEFENCE-Modern two-motored Egyptian Air Force-warplanes-fly over a masque minaret during a demonstration of Egypt's military and air strength in Cairo.

PACKETS ON PARADE-Four twin-engined, 64,000-pound Fairchild C-119. Packets fly over the plant at Hagerstown, Maryland, before moving to U.S. Air

Forco bases for cargo-transport use.

CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL-Nuns from Mount St Joseph's School, San Francisco, watch their charges a ride during a Christmas entertainment for

children.

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ROYAL FAREWELL King Frederik, of Den- mark waves as he leaves by train from Liverpool Street Station, London. en route home after n visit to the British capl.

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SMUTS OBLIGES—Field Marshal Jun Christian Smuts of South Africa passes cakes to Lady Samuel, wife of Britain's Liberal Party lender, at a reception in Smuts' honour in London.

DALI IN ROME.... Salvador Dali, surrealist, who says he is turning to religious painting, leaves his hotel in Rome carrying his canvas of the "Immaculate Concep- tion."

BAZAAR WORKERS Mrs Douglas Fairbanks (left) and Bebo Daniela sell goods at a teen-age stall of the London Christmas bazaar for the National Girls' and Mixed

Clubs fund..

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MONTY MILES—Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery smiles at news- aboard the liner Mauretanin on which ho salled from New York for home after a visit to the U.S.

MANILA REBUILDS-War-wrecked remains of the University of Manila. Philippine Islands, are among buildings to be considered under the programme for the "new" Manila.

RAILWAY WITH 18 TRAINS-Worknien build a bridge for a model railway system in Munich, Germany, which has 18 trains, 1,500 feet of track, 100 signals

and five stations.

NEW PREMIER- Sidney George Holland (above), head of the Na- tional Party which beat the New Zealand Labour government in the recent new election, Is the

Prime Minister,

STUDY IN STRIPES A Difteen-year-old zebra parades her new baby outdoors. for the daily exercise period in their own reservation at the Perth Zoo in Australia.

CLEARING OVERHEAD-linlian goddie Guseppe Moro (right) goes above England's Jack Rowley to defend the goal, in an international soccer match in

London, won by England 2 to

OPERATION QUACK-Lt. Gen. Clarence R Huebner, Gen, Thomas T. and Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon, (left to right) of the U.S. Forces in Europ

from a duck hant near-Bremerhaven,