Poland faced
with major flood threat
Rivers flow upstream
Warsaw, July 28.
Rivers began flowing upstream in western Poland
today under the immense pressure of flood waters, the official Polish news agency PAP reported today.
Mass exodus of Asians from Uganda
Kampala, July 28.
Ugandas 80,000 Asians are getting ready for a mass exodus to India in fear of a repetition here of the Congo troubles, it was reported today,' Shipping Arms have closed their books for booking accommodation, including deck passages, on all India-bound ships until next Aprii. Hundreds Of Asians were reported to be still besteging shipping offees daily, many afering bribes for the non- existent berths,
THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1964.
Cousins UK imposes loses in
speed
29 British tourists
election
Berne, July 28.
Mr Frank Cousins, General
limit
London, July 28.
to observe a 50-mile-an-
injured as bus
deas
crashes into barn
Berne, July 28.
today with injuries suffered in a bus crash yesterday.
Secretary of the British British motorists will have Seventeen British tourists were in hospital in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Transport and General Workers Union, was de feated in his hid here to day for re-election to the Transport International
Workers' Federation ex- ecutive committee.
of
ап-
ד.
DIFFICULTY
"
Hour speed limit on 785 miles of normally Umit-
The Belgian vehicle was tak-j The driver and the hostess, free roads next weekend ing a party of 41 Britons from both Belgians, were also injured, -the three-day August Ostend to Davos when it crash- The hostess was reported to be bank holiday-the Minised into a building at Bargen on the only person on the danger ter of Transport, Mr the German.frontier, injuring 29 list.
of the passengers, 12 of whom Ernest Marples,
were discharged after hospital nounced today.
treatment.
The speed limit, designed to prevent road accidents, will re- five main in force for the succeeding weekends. It Was tried out
158 miles of roads during the Whitsun holiday last Warsaw evening papers re-man of the International execu-month when 88 people were ported a toll of four known tive committee since 1958. The killed in road accidents. dead in the Cracow region new chairman will be elected alone. The worst floods in the tomorrow. region for 20 years have driven 30,000 people from their homes,
Mr S. F. Greene, of the British National Union A wall of flood water sweep-Railwaymen,
was chosen by ing down the River Oder over-the current congress of the came the normal current in the foderation to be British repre- river's tributaries - in Zielona sentative on the executive com- Gora province and reversed the ❘mittee. direction of their flow.
The Prime Minister today ap- Julian pointed vice-Premier Tokarski to be government
Mr Cousins had been chair-
came
· Mr Cousins' surprise defeat in a secret ballot of the 400 delegates from 36 nations attending the congress. Mr Greene, General Secretary plenipotentiary to co-ordinate of the N.U.R. received 2,100,- anti-flood activities.
000 votes and Mr Cousins 1,- called
A flood emergency has been 787,000.---Reuter..
in the Warmla and Mazurian Jake districts of north- cast Poland for the first time in Afteen years,
EMERGENCY
Warsaw, where the rainfall in the past 24 hours equalled that of an average month, ex- pects an emergency on Satur- day, as the River Vistula will be in spate on Sunday OF Monday.
9 killed in truck-car
Nine
collision
Odessa, Texas, July 29.
including persons, seven children, were killed near here today when a 30-ton truck collided with an automobile.
An Indian community spokes- mart here confirmed that many
The Warsaw-Cracow railway up-country Asian families were
India going to
line was cut by floods early to- while many
when en embankment township Indians were sending day their wives and children out of
collapsed.
In the textile city of Lodz, Uganda.
"Asians saw what could hap-basement hats and cellars are is lapping in pen during the Buganda trade flooded. Water
the streets of Czestochowa, and boycott", he said. "Now the Congo disturbances have pro-
the Wait River is still rising.
of acres of
In the car were 10 persON S→→→ Ivided the last straw. Besides, Many thousands not one Uganda nationalist farmland are inundated, and two women and eight children. one of the youngsters Leader has ever given any as- major disaster threatens the Only
survived. The truck driver surance regarding the Asians country's grain crops.
consciousness and was Only *future in Uganda".
the lost
He added that many Asians who had fled Buguida for other regions of Uganda during the boycott, had now decided to leave the country altogether. AFP.
Garbage men strike
New York, July 28, Garbage collection in New York city came to a virtual standstill today, with thousands. of tons of undisposed debris al- ready accumulating along the streels.
A strike of Sanitation Depart-
-ment workers-the men who
eight per cent of
harvet has been gathered in rushed to the hospital. South Poland, according to the The accident occurred when newspaper Trybuna Ladu. The the truck smashed into the car corn is so rain-soaked that after it had passed a red light. mehanical hervesters cannot The truck dragged
the
operate, and crops will have to several metres before crushing be harvested by hand.-Reuter, it under its rear wheels-AFP.
Well-known plastic
surgeon's estate
London, July 28.
collect the garbage and clean The late Sir Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon
the sheets-gread to include
nearly the entire force of 10,000
men. Emergency measures to
avoid health hazards were being
shaped by city authorities.-AP.
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who restored the faces of hundreds of dis- figured servicemen, left a gross estate of £142,901, it is reported.
A British Crossword Puzzle
12
ACROSS
18
4
1 Typical holiday-maker! (0)
3 Go by car. (6)
* Load (4)
Chest sufferer, we hear (8)
11 Render vold. (6)
14 Lald out khi Tùng (H)
14 Priceless deposit: (4).
16 In ours the sky one? 15). '
18 Not breed alone. (5)
19 Man or Dogst (4)
20 Second of two, (6)
24 Air your views. (B).
23 Stop someone's
(6)
24 Pudding base. (4)
2帅 LP.7 (6)
28 Don't lose it. (6)
circulatinal
128
DOWN
1 Player in the side again?
(4)
2 Resilient when touched! (4)
3 Out of the winch (4))
4 Not broad-minded? :(0)
5 Grazing grounds, (7)
6 Monastic haircut, 17)
7 Does the work of loaders.
(7)
10 An absolute 'devil. (8)
13 Insult to one's face, (7)
14 No doubt he has a military
bearing (7)
15 Horsemen (?).
17 More advanced. (5)
19 Unscathed in diplomacy. (6)
21 Wooden actor? (4)
22 Get in, ().
23 Agitate in Jull? (4)'
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Amrows: 1 Pande, 4 Priced,
17 Noce
Wreaths 10 Sprog:13 Pinster, 14 Deserve
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New Zealand - bo Sir Archibald's fortune was derived ontirely from his private practice.
He began his career with no inheritance and never took rayment from his servicemen patients.
His net ostale was £109,431, out of which death duties of £52,336 were põld.
Apart from a few bequesta, the money Whe divided equally between his widow and two daughters,
Sir Archibald died last Apri
at the age of 59.-China Maxi Special
Charged with
drunk driving
Malibu, Calif, July 28. Riad Ghali, brother-in-law of ex-king Farouk of Egypt, was arraigned in municipal court here today on a drunk driving charge,
الام الحق
When Ghall, 41, was arrested Dear here on July 3, officers sald be had $1,500 in his pockets.
was exiled
Ghall said he after be married Faronic'a sister, Princess Fathia, in: 1850.
-AP.
Suspicions
Houston, July 28.
A tayern owner called police
pleiqui characte Twho has teen drinking nothing but water for four hLOURS.”
The man was taken to jail for poet, 18 Seeży 90 Pamper, 21 Esteem, 24 Trict, 25 Owlet, | questioning by a psychiatrist
UPIS
Prepare, 22 Also, 25 Frelong,
És Tille. Deral 1. Pawed, 3 Needs & After,
CHED Deemed, 'Havered, I Bendil, 18 5-evered" (15 Kärl,
20 Gorga, 28 Ayes,
Seventy-eight people died on the mads during last year's | August bank holiday-Reuter.
Main speaker
Washington, July 28. The main speaker at last night's Arth annual banquet of the national Committee for the was Prevention of Alcoholism Daniel F. B. Debec,-UPI,
July 29, 1960
FIRST
Missile failure
Cape Canaveral, July 28. A big Titan Intercontinental missile, launched for a 5,000- male fight, dropped in the sea The about 50
off Cape Cana- milles veral today when the first stage engine developed trouble,
One of the passengers, Mr Ronaki Cresswell, 34, of St Albans, said: "We were going down a hill just after crossing the frontier when suddenly we began to pick up speed, driver was obviously having difficulty controlling the bus and when he saw we were heading for a line of cars he swung off the road.
"The bus crashed into a surt of barn."-China Mail Special
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Colour films of Parliament
opening
London, July 28. Colour Films Fre to be made
of the state opening of the new session of Parliament by Queen Elizabeth on November 1
Butler, Home Secretary, announced today.
The present session, which will be adigmped. ReporTOW, ends in October,
Mr Butler told the House of Commons that the govemment had decided and the Queen had colour Alma approved that should be made of the pest state opening.
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