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Mal-Kali Marquees. a Burmese , an elephant around l, in London, 15313., 0n her birthday. The girl performs this ccrmony every year as a token of good luck.

Red Cross officials predict an estimated 22.750 refugees would receive aid in restricted sections of Arkansas before the current floods subside. Great areas along the banks of the Red and White rivers and tributaries have been swept by water overflowing the rivers‘ banks. The refugee family (Lower) with their chickens and dog escaped from a fllrm near LcwisviPe as floods swept ovcr 2i counties They are living in an army ‘tent silpplied by the lied Cross until they can return to their home. Even this three-yeaI-old (Left) in Fulton. Aria, helps build a scaffold on which to stack the family furniture as flood waters of the Red river mount higher. Most of the towns 593 Ie-‘iide-Yii-i mill/Ed to hlzher ground as the Red rive" topped llle previous high water mark, set in 1W7. As a levee broke near Fulton, thousands of acres of farmland were inundated. These geese (Right) reached a floating haven from which they survey the flooded expanse which once was "home", Five levees have been smashed already by the Red river.

sir Eric Phipps. British Ambessaxi to Rance received Mme Robert lespagrlol. assistant Paris manager of the travel as- sociation of Great Britain and Ireland, to invest her with the insignia of a ulember of the Older of the British Empire, which the King conferred on her. Photograph shows Mme. 119811831101, with her decoration in her Paris office. ~

Vatican City reports were that the Pipe may refuse permission for the marriage of Countess Apponyi and King Zog of Albania, ahown in Tirana. in a recent picture, as the Albanian Parliament approved the betrotha-l. The Countess, daughter of the former Gladys Virginia. Stewart, of New York, and Count Julius Nagy Apponyi, of Hungary, 1s a Gotham; King Z03 insists that, his children. apeclally an heir to the throne, be reared in his Mosleni faith.

the news last week that "Concord

Folk: in Grutyvilie. 9a., heard A “Wm”; his 17th child, i; ml»

Bill" Mathuu is again a father.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Marti f ' ' ‘g1g%leB8E£v]tfI" to the New Yorxl: dlozmshlxslilneiMaxlonlion n. e well known Irish terrier won the awand for the best

Céfwgraeid at the Asioclated Terrie: show H, 1‘ shown mm m5

OPERA STAB, FAINTB

An international radio audience waited half an hour. FY11). 25. i0!’ 111B opera "Aida to continue from Metropolitan Opera house. New York. after the leading tenor, Glo- vanni Mal-tinelll, collapsed while singing. His illness Wlls blamed on acute indigestion, brought on by loo much crab meat. The curtain was rung down and the brzadcast sus- pended until a substitute arrived.

Viscount and Viscountess Greenwood_ on mg mo; at ‘he constant Spring Hole , Jamaica, B.W.I., where they first met 3i years ago. In the picture (left to right) are Viscountess Greenwocd, F. H. gobertson, Chairman of the Jamaica. Tourist Trade Development

Oﬂrd. who grcelcdtlle pecr and his wife. Henry Hewer, manager ‘ of the Constant Spring Hotel, and Viscount Greenwood who 1t, will

. r I _ . \ be recalled, was born in Whitby, one, and graduated from the University of Toronto.

ascarap BURNING HOME

Nine-year-old June McQuillin tried to rush back into her hazing Willowdolc, Ont.. home early Feb. 28. to rescue her English terrier Betty, whom she believed to be trap when fire swept through the building. After her mother had restrained her. it was discovered that her pet had escﬂgved. June's father. P.C. Roy Mcwiiiiin. “'11s shot. dead eight years DBO W11"! he attempted to question a man.

0!"_"“.I . One observer has declared wllh respect to Singapore;

Today this “(iibraltar of the East." with its naval base which could accommodate half the British Navy. stfillds comrlrte and cleared for action.

Singapore has nailed its colors to the mast-with United slates warships locking on-at the precise juncture when powerful groups within the Japanese Empire are urging the all-conquering Japanese forces to occupy not only Cilnt:n—and thus garrotle Honqkang by cutting that colony off from its sources of trade-but also to 52in Hainlm Isand, south of Hon: Kong

And on the day that the Imperial Japanese Nnvy dd that it vculd cut the communlcatfons linking Singapore w'ih Hcngkong and every British ‘plane or warship would pas: between the two Empire outposts only by kind permission of the Japanese forces.

Japanese domination in lhfl rraicn of Hainan Island. moreover. would enable that ration to establish military airfield; nearer to the singapore Base than would be altogether comfortable f"r the men (‘liBTTCd with mnlnlzﬂning British interest: in the famous "defence triangle" formed by lion»; Kong, Singapore. and Port Darwin. in Australia.

Through that "trisnglc" run the vital trade and fcod which form the jugular vein of the British Is‘es.

Inside it are the American-ﬂamed Phillinpine; (shortly to achieve their indencndnncau. and the Dutch-owned Indies.

Within its three CCPTTS err some of the world's rfchrt fe- sources of iron. tin. rrbtcr. copra. coffee and oil. .!'cr three white

Powers, at least. illCH‘ Union Jacks ﬂying in the Malayan sun-

light means liic or death ' '

Rt. Hon. William Ormsby-Gore (above). Brltl h Colonial Secretary, has just announced that he will not reek re-election to the House of Commonsat the next general election. Mr. 0rmsby~0orr. who is heir t- his father. Lord llarleoh. and will eventually sit in tile Hour:- of Lords. mnlaced Right Hon. J. H. ‘Thomas in the Cabinet. He was formerly First Ccmmimloner oi Works.

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