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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1961.
The Windsor Castle mystery
A vanishing cabin for
for two
FULLY FASHIONED phantom cabin for two aboard the 38,000-ton liner Windsor Castle, flagship of the Union-Castle fleet. That was the story which buzzed over the galley telegraph as the lilac-hulled liner, crowded with passengers for Britain, prepared to sail from Cape Town.
PORTUGUESE
ELECTION
SYSTEM
CHANGED
Thirteen days and 7,000 infles later, at Southampton, the story was st told confidently.
More than half the crew hadi heard about Il when the Windsor Castle crossed the Equator.
By the time she tal up at
| Southampton the other day, hardly a man was left who did not believe that a mysterious, unknown cabh ul been dis- Covered (71 the homeward voyage.
Dirty glass
This is the strante story they felt-
6A ship's offeer on a routine inspection of the finer from Lisbon, March 23.
the quay at Cape Town Tho Portuguesa election noticed a porthole with very
system was officially dirty glass.
altered today by a decree He went abourd trace the that provides for the in-steward who had falled to clean the glass, but there was no sign direct election of the of either the steward or the President of the Republic.pin. The decree published in ta day's official journal embodies
now,
An able scaman was lowered
the constitutional reform to this over the side on a rope to look When he was effect adopted by the Portuguese into the cabin.
deck again he re- National Assembly in August. hauled on
ported excitedly that through 1959.
Until
the Portuguese dust and cobwebs he had espied President has been elected by a double cabin complete with
wash basin, bunks, universal suffrage.
drawers but no door!
As the ship sailed for England, hunt
was on for the cabin without a dour.
The President will in future] be elected by a limited elee- toral college. This will in-
л
chest ot
And after a process of tapping
clude the members of both Housea of Parliament, and municipal and provincial Tengainst bulkheads and parti- presentatives elected by secret long, the cabin was ballot sixty days before the the crew's sleeping quarters on
D Deck for'ard. presidential election.
found in
the door
Fixed firmly over was a shiny wall of plastic covering, matching that used in many parts of the ship,
A hole was
and there revealed the cabin was which had never been used.
The election of the Portuguese President will be made without any preliminary debote in the electoral college. The candidates will be required to register with the Supreme Court of Justice at rast five days before the clee- tion, and will have to be intro- duced by at least twenty and a maximum of ty
Rul at Southampton no one the electoral college.
could say exnolly where the Three days before the elec-mysterious cabin was. Men on tion, the Supreme Court of D Deck said they had been Justice will judge the eligibility assured on the most reliable of the candidates.--AFP.
authority that it was for ard on the next deck up.
members of
'Nonsense'
Escaper caught heard that it
after a year
London, Mar. 23.
A prisoner who escaped from Parkhurst, Isle of Wight,
was
And there....well, they had definitely down on D Deck.
Captain John Oakley, master of the Windsor Castle. threw back his head and laughed hearthly when asked about his phantom cabin.
January fast year, was found "It is absolutely the first recently al Raynes Park, thing I have heard of it," he Surrey,
said. "It is complete nonsense
But in the town the sallors were relating to wives and friends the full detalls of the 'odd story of the phantom cabin.
The man, 33-year-old Ernes: Just a shipboard rumouṛ or a Taylor will appear at Croydon big leg-pull." The Patterson-Johansson
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