1960-07-29 — Page 3

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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