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CELEBRATE NATIONAL DAY
WOMAN ACCUSED OF 4 MURDERS
A woman,charged with four mur- ders for the sake of insurance money was brought up for trial recently in To-day, Macao, in common with the Vienna Centrál Criminal Court. the other Portuguese Colonies, will She is Martha Marek, aged 40. celebrate the twelfth anniversary She is accused of murdering her of the establishment' of the New husband, Emil Marek, an aunt, an- National Government of Portugal. other woman, who lodged with her,
It was on this day, twelve years and one of her own children. ago, that Portugal awoke to a re- volution led by General Gomes da Costa.
Slowly and steadily each one of the Ministerial positions was filled by capable ministers. As an exam- ple of the good government, Gen- eral Antonio Oscar Carmona was elected President of Portugal.
BUDGET BALANCED
All the bodies were exhumed, af- ter suspicion was aroused, and traces of thallium, which is alleged to have been obtained from rat poison, were found in each.
Twelve years ago Emil Marek, an his inventor of 24, was found in garden in a Vienna suburb with his leg almost hacked off above the knee. This great soldier and statesman, He had been carving a wooden model shortly after taking office, summon- with an axe, which he had previously ed Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, sharpened on Sunday morning in the
garden. until then an unknown and unpre-
The week before he had insured. tentious professor of mathematics in the University of Coimbra, to as- his life for £4,000, and had taken out sume the portfolio of minister of another policy for £16,000 against Finance, which post Dr. Salazar disablement by accident. The latter: {sum he claimed. He and his wife accepted.
had
· Dr. Antonio Salazar began to declared in evidence that he work assiduously and unselfishly, hacked his leg himself by accident.
Husband's Sudden Death trying to improve the deficient
After long legal proceedings financial conditions of Portugal. It
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫ was not long, with the aid of his Marek was paid about £8,000, most
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fellow ministers and the confidence of which was swallowed up in law- costs. Six years MOST EXCITING STORY OF THE MASTER STORY TELLER ! imposed upon him by the entire yers' fees and
population, he succeeded for the later when the couple were very poor first time, after several decades in he died somewhat suddenly, but no balancing the budget of Portugal, suspicion then fell on the wife. to the surprise of all Continental
It is now alleged that Marek was
powers.
so much under his wife's influence Apart from the office of Finance that he allowed her to hack his leg Minister, Dr. Antonio Salazar was with the axe, as it was a physical in 1928 made Prime Minister of impossibility in the opinion of many Portugal.
experts consulted at the time for Throughout these years, Portu-him to have done, it himself. gal under his leadership placed In court Martha Marek has ap- before the world, a budget not only peared almost blind, but the pro- balanced, but balanced on the
secution declares that she has been credit side.
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She gave formal evidence about herself after the indictment had been read. The hearing was then adjourned. The trial is expected to last a fortnight.
have been built in Portugal and in England. The army has been reor-
The public interest in the case ganized and equipped with modern weapons. The living conditions centres upon the revived particulars and the of the alleged accident to Marek's |-have-been-ameliorated
leg 12 years ago. country is happy and contented un- der the present regime.
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To the Portuguese people who live out here in the East, May 28 is a day most dear to their hearts. It is a day in which every true son of Portugal, proudly celebrates the birth of a New and Progressive Portugal.-Contributed.
WAR EXHIBITION IN TUBE STATION
Secret telephone numbers, known only to officials, for service depots through which "specially urgent" calls could be made in time of air raids, are advocated in a memoran- dum on "Local Communications and Reporting of Air Raid Damage," issued by the Home Office Air Raid Precautions Department.
The ideal arrangement in large towns, it is. stated, would be that stations or depots of services- such as police stations—should One of have at least two lines. these could be reserved for out- going or specially urgent incoming messages.
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"The number of the line so re- A war exhibition in being held in an underground station beneath served should not appear in the Barcelona's Central Square, the telephone directory and should be Plaza Catalonia.
known only to persons officially The entrance to the exhibition is concerned, otherwise the line might sandbagged like a trench and is be congested with incoming calls littered with the Paraphernalia of of minor importance," War. The lighting is dim to give The primary object was that in- formation about bomb damage the effect of a trench by night.
The exhibition is decorated in should reach the ARP services futuristic, style and the walls are with the minimum of delay. hung with progaganda slogans, and It is emphasised that code men- statistics in bold lettering. There sages should not be used, as ex- are numerous diagrams, a blood- citability or nervousness would in- curdling display of war-borrower troduce grave risks of error and photographs and grim posters. delay.