ISLAND OF SKYE
MANY VISITORS ATTEND CELEBRATIONS LONDON, May 22. Visitors from all over the world, many of them descendants of families who left the island in earlier years, attended the opening of the celebrations at Portree on the island of Skye, to mark the opening of Skye week. The Lords Provost of both Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the Provost of Inverness attended a commemorative church service aft r a procession had marched through the town headed by the nines and drums of the Ist Battalion. Highland Light Infantry, and a wreath had been laid on the Portree war memorial. The service was followed by the Skve Highland Games, which were held on Meal Hill. overlooking Portree Loch. In the evening large crowds watched pipers and drummers of the Highland Light Infantry sound the Retreat on the Portree harbour front.
Radio Jamming bv Russia.— Radio experts from the British Foreign Office and the American State Department met in London, after the two recent conferences, to consider means of overcoming the Russian jamming of foreign news broadcasts. It is believed that the Russians have now more than 200 transmitters engaged in jamming American and Britisn broadcasts in Russian.—London. May
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26120, 24 May 1950, Page 7
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