1950-01-03 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1960.

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NEWSFRONT

IN CELEBRATION--Schoolchildren in Havana, Cuba, observe the 430th birthday of the city by visiting the historic Templete, built on the site of the first Mass held in Cuba. Usually open only on Colombus Day, the Templete was also visited on this exceptional occasion.

FEARFUL VIGIL-Villagers living on the slopes of Mount Etna, near Catania, Sicily, watch huge columns

of smoke rise from the crater na the volcano erupts for the second time since the war. Crops and vineyards were damaged by streams of hot lava and ashes which poured down from the mountain.

WINTER WONDERLAND--This is a Christmas-card view of Mend Memorial Chapel at Middlebury College, in Vermont. Three pre-winter snowfalls have given the campus its earliest snow cover in postwar years, arraying it for the holidays.

THREE LOVELIES When three such gorgeous gals display their charms, they manage to keep the honours evenly divided. Chorus girls (left to right) Joe Ames, Pat Terry and Marie Roe keep their dancing figures by taking a daily swim under the desert at Las Vegas, Nevada.

CLOSE TO CAPTURE—Londoners being unexpectedly entertained by Joan, the Barbary ape who escaped from the Regents's Park Zoo. Joan enjoyed three days of city sightseeing before she was captured near the Ministry of Supply Office and returned to her cage.

UNWELCOME GUEST-When this dead whale was washed ashore at Fire

Island, New York, the Coast Guard was called to attach a hawser to the huge

blob of blubber and haul it away.

KILLED ON THE RUN John William Hold of Indianapolis Indiana, met his death after he had abandoned his stalled truck on the tracká before an oncoming trainHeld was only a few feet from safety when the train hit the truck and threw it against him.

ARMFUL Film/ Star Robert Mitchum looke like any weary Christmas shopper as he holds some his Yuletide gifts in

Hollywood.

HOMECOMING When their dog, Laddle, got lost, it was a sad time for Jeffry Willis, two, left, and his brother Charles, four, of Roslyn Heights, New York. But they received a notice from a dog shelter that their pet had been found, and Laddie's welcome home. made it a joyous occasion for the entire family.

PERFECT At a dental meeting held In New York, actress Barbara. Hale was voted as a glamorous example of perfect dental care. She looks like a good choice.

WATCH ON THE RHINE With colours snapping

in a brisk wind a US Navy patrol craft covers its beat on the Rhine River in Gormany

set In February, 1949, to nid havigation on the river.