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Widowed Mother Of Four

HK Gets Where Is Margaret? Gets One Month

FLOODS IN Another

THE SUBWAY

HAT was some lake in the Star Ferry subway yen- terday. A little more, than

1

4 Inches

Hongkong again got a drenching this morn- ing, when almost four inches of rain fell be- tween 6 a.m. and 10

a.m.

two months after its opening It

- almost Accumulated enough water to float a

In sampan

two-hour downpour that. wha re markable, but not uncom mon

in Hongkong. We recall that in May two years ago a rainfall of more than 11 inches was recorded In one 24-hour period. And Colony's weather pattern in the there have been a few oc- last 30 hours. casions when it has exceeded this. Accoraling to Govern-Hongkong's water supply. Yes- terday storage was 4,340 million

Heavy thunderstorms broke over the Colony just before the dawn, repetition of

The rain considerably booned

ment the cause of the flood-gallons and at 8 a.m. it was ing which forced the subway about 5,815 million gallons. to be closed down, was not Despite the heavy downpours the Stne Ferry the rain alone, but choked this morning, drains.

Eubway was dry.

But the Bis Ferry con- course near the subway ramp WILE sandbagged and a deep 10-11 long trench had been fancy chopped through the paving from the Junction of the drains to the sea walls. This followed the choking of that it would the drains and the flooding of become unusable in heavy the subway yesterday,

Is it reasonable to supposes that this might happen again? The subway has] baen the subject of criticisms ever since it was proposedį by Government. Runders warned un occasions

number of

It is not known whether the foreshadows modifica-

rain and typhoons, Thea truch

in

there was the problem of ions to the drainage system or draining the alte before the is merely a temporary arrange

unul the drainage ramps could be put down ment during the building of the working normally again. subway. This was overcome finally only after

much patience and pumping.

It is not the time now to ask whether an overhead bridga would

thin

subway

Was

The lashing rain caused the usual amount of rainor, trafe hold-ups.

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A jostling, shouting mob of photographers and about, 200 others who hod aluded, the police cordon swirled on to the tarmac at Lisbon's Por talla Airport for the ar Flyal of Princess Mar- garet. About 4,000 ~Portuguesa.

BORGNINE'S DIVORCE

the

to

Low Pressure have been better A Royal Observatory, spokes- Hobway. The man cald this morning that, the original contract for the low pressure trough moved north of the Colony during yesterday more than evening,, but moved, south ngal $2 million, a fairly ex-during the night. ponsive project when it is The apolcomman remembered that it is just trough should remain close a traffic flow ald. But one Hongkong throughout the day,

The rain will scars for pagurance that does seem

some time during the afteri necessary is that the scenes

noon and evening. but the which our photographer

weather la expected to remain witnessed yesterday are not; unsettled for at least the next going to be repeated at re- 24 hours. gular intervals through the "There is no sign of an early Bummer, that the drainags change to really fine weather,"

is capable of ensuring a dry

the spokesman added,

passage in the heaviest of The Fire Brigado were culled

out twice during the

storms, or if not that it can

be suitably modified to meet to extinguish small

also

morning olectrical Ares. The first was in Central all "normal" emergencies,

District and the other at the The

should experts

Aberdeen Reservoir. Upper explain how it happened that Neither was serious.

a' minor On the mainland. such a large volume of water "cascaded down the ramp tundalide at the 15 milestone of the subway from the on the Castle Peak Road caused seaward side." Because if traffle to be cut down to singie- this was the result of .a The bus service to Sal Kurig downpour yielding only Vilage in the New Territories three Inches in two hours, has had to be suspended. The how. is it going, to stand up Sal Kung Road. (Hiram's High- to the kind of rains that way), is now restricted to light full two years ago?

| vehleles and private care;.

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choered from behind the barricados, but the tar- mac battle was so bad that when police finally cloured her way to hor car, the had to drive straight off leaving dd behind the 30-odd Vilka to whom she ahtuid Have-been intra-

duced.

She arrived back in London yesterday after her six- day visit to Portugal. The Princess loft, Lisbon yesterday morning by oir

and stopped" for lunch at Blomits, the resort"-con" the south- an episors comir of France.

On arrival in London the Princess, who was wear- ing a white summer coat and 'a 'plik" and "white floral hot, dróva away In her car accompanied by a giant bouquet of „red roses, which had bgen.conlod-off the plane by a foatman,

Changed Dress SPEED TESTS YUGOSLAV

To Cover

Beatings Wife Says

Santa Monica, Calif,

June 12. Actor Ernest Borgning's wife charged today that she had to change the style of the dress the were at the academy awards presenta- tions at which hor husband SO received an "Oscar," that marks from his best- ings wouldn't show.

Mrs Rhoda Borgnine made

superior court secking to set nside an

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A model of the saucer

Cowes, June 12.

the charge in a petition flied in Britain's "Flying Saucer" Hovercraft began a serious training programme, today following its successful public demonstration yesterday, interlocutory divorce decree she received last Aug- ust 20. She also charged in the petition that actress Katy Jurado was a "home wrecker."

Saunders-Roc test pliot Peter Lamb took it out for about 90 minutes and reported perform- She said Borgnine had a anco was even better than ex- morbid fear of spalling their pected daughter Nancy,7, but bad Lieutenant-Commander Lamb "threatened never to see. Nancy cut out the engine to see what that the Hovercraft will be put again until I signed the divorce would happen, I. the engine or

failed. paper."

Judge Edward It Brand sei Juno 20 for a hearing on the

petition JEU

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DETAINED

London, June 12.

A widowed mother of four children was ordered to gaol for one month today in the climax of one of the most bitterly criticised and tragedy. surrounded British court cases in years.

An appeals court today order- ed that Mrs Eftihin Christos, a Cypriot, 39-year-old Greek must send one month in gaol for fraudulently obtalning £220 from-National Assistance.

The court reduced her original sentence by one month. But it still meant that Mrs Christos must go to gaol.

Sewing

Rarely in years has there boon sich an outburst of in- dignation over any one criminal case in British courts.

Mrs. Christes' crime was that she took in sewing in her home to supplement the allowance being given her by National Assistance. By law, outside earnings must be reported. Mrs

The chairman of the court, R.E. Seaton, said: "Our attention has been called in the course of this case to ataloments and ob- scrvations that have been made among members of the public and press, and so I would like to say at once that we are com- pletely uninfuenced by aby- thing that has transpired out- Bido. UPI.

Whole Car Wobbled!

Wimbledon, June 12, Police stopped David Walder, 23, to tell him he had a wobbly wheel on his car

They found: the front bum- Christos did not report them, per was wired to the flapping She has four children. Three | fenders; the driver's door was of them suffer from tuberculosis, attached by string to rust She said that she decided to hinges; the windows were hold carn extra money by sewing in in with putty," the whole car order to have more money to twisted when leaned on-UPL spend on her sick children.

When she was caught and sent for trial, she appeared be- fore magistrale Gooffrey Roso. Rose, 68, sentenced her to two months in prison: );

Stiffness

Britain's Gain

Washington, June 12. Britain stands to gain. $11

immediate million worth- of

The suffpess of the sentence orders as a result of a United Bintes ruling on imparts of produced an unprecedented up heavy electrical (equipment: roar, London dock workers, held.

made todayNDON,

The US Government's Office protest meetings. Other uniona and church groups offered 10:

of Civil and Defence Mobilium=

·Andnce ber appont.hu!!

Then the Bishop of South- tion (OCDM) said that imports god of turbines and other heavy called the sentence. "eavage and electrical equipment posed no

treat to national, security Router.

··took up

British newIDO POKI - the cry.

Then Magistrato Boso tell ill When the protests started, hö said: "I do not regret my dect- sion. It was 'a painful one, but,

Wrong Port?

Rotterdam, June 12.. The, 9.318-ion British motor

it was just. I did what I bo-ship Argobeam arrived off the

lieved was right.”

As the flood of protests in creased, Rose died

Today Mrs Christos appeal WAS heard. The court was

Paris, June 12. The Yugoslav Minister for Trade Unións, Mr Misha Pavicevic, was detained told that Mrs Christos husband for more than thres hours | died in 1853, leaving her with by French; police on his four children now aged 15, arrival at Orly airport here 11, and seven. It learned thei this afternoon from Bel Mes Christos admitted she took in qutside work, although sho grade, the Yugoslav Em had signed a form which had bassy reported here today, I told her the must report it.. Etbussy officials sald -- that

Mr. Pavicevic, who came to Parla to attend the congress of

Reduction

I hoard her statement

the Communist-led Confedora- "I could not live on my tion of Labour (CGT), was re- tional Assistance money leased after the Embassy had bring up four children.” lodged a "strong protest against

The

Hook of Halland from Gibraltar, proceeded up the ship canal tó the Rotterdamg Docks, and diɛ- covered it was in the wrong port,

The cargo was destined for Kiel, Germany. The Argobeam'd on its way-UPI.

New Capital

The

Karachil, June 13. Pakistani Government the country's today decided that capital should be shifted from No-Karachi to an area near Rawal-

and pindi in northwest Pakistan where a new capital city will

court dellberated and be bulit close to the foothills of

• Himalayan mountains. AFP.

his arbitrary arrest with the then deelded to reduce her zen-the French Foreign Ministry.

tence to one month.

"Foreign Ministry officials wero

not avaliable for comment this

evening-Reuter,

Lloyd Back

London, June 12. in forward fight, it attained

Forelgo Secretary Selwyn a speed of 25 knols.

After exhaustive: tests, the Lloyd flew Into London tonight next step is likely to be a larger frem Geneva to report to Prime craft of 40 tons.

Minister. Harold Macmillan and It was earned here today the government on the Foreign

Ministors Conference.. exhibition at the Forn- Ho told newsmen at London ***; borcuzh Air Show this summer., airport: "I think we have got Hovercraft It will be dismantled, trans to be patient. But we have got four-ton flopped safely on to the surface purled by road, and reassembled to be firm atout essentials. In

at Farnborough-Reuter.

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