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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1994

QUESTION:

DO YOU THINK THE VICE PREMIER'S URGE FOR COMPREHENSIVE CO- OPERATION IS AN ENCOURAGING SIGN FOR IMPROVING RELATIONSHIP?

JUST

GOVERNOR: WELL, IT'S WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BUT AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, I THINK WHAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG ARE KEEN TO SEE IS NOT EXPRESSIONS OF GOOD

GOOD INTENT ABOUT CO-OPERATION BUT CO-OPERATION ACTUALLY ACHIEVING THINGS ON THE GROUND AS HAPPENED WITH THE DEFENCE LANDS AGREEMENT. I THINK ONE REASON WHY THAT WAS SO WELCOMED IN HONG KONG WAS THAT IT WAS A POSITIVE SIGN OF PROGRESS ON A VERY DIFFICULT ISSUE BUT WE HAD, AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF NEGOTIATION, CRACKED THAT PROBLEM AND THERE ARE OTHER FRANKLY LESS DIFFICULT PROBLEMS THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TACKLE AS WELL. THERE'S AN EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH WITH A SIMILAR EXPRESSION I THINK IN CHINESE ABOUT ACTIONS SPEAKING LOUDER THAN WORDS. AND I THINK THAT SHOULD BE OUR MOTTO WHEN IT COMES ΤΟ CO-OPERATION FOR THE AUTUMN, BY WHICH TIME I AM SURE I'LL BE EVEN SLIMMER AND MORE BRONZE, AND I READ SOME BOOKS AND HAD A GOOD HOLIDAY AND I HOPE YOU DO AS WELL.

HEAVY DELUGE CAUSES FLOODING AND LANDSLIPS

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OVERNIGHT HEAVY DELUGE HAS CAUSED FLOODING AND LANDSLIPS, AFFECTED TRAFFIC IN MOST PART OF THE TERRITORY.

BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY DOWNPOUR, THE RED RAINSTORM WARNING SIGNAL WAS HOISTED TWICE IN TWO SEPARATE PERIODS AFTER MIDNIGHT, FIRST BETWEEN 2.30 AM AND 5.45 AM, AND 10.35 AM THROUGH MOST OF THE AFTERNOON.

A TOTAL OF 336 CASES OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE HOUR SPAN BETWEEN 3 AM AND 3 PM, THESE CASES WERE REPORTED FROM FOLLOWING DISTRICTS:

12- THE

THERE

PM.

THE

YUEN LONG NORTH

TUEN MUN

TAI PO

80

14

25

13

SHA TIN

14

SAI KUNG

5

KHAI CHUNG

9

TSUEN WAN

17

KOWLOON

132

HONG KONG ISLAND

26

ISLANDS

1

WERE A TOTAL OF 47 CASES OF LANDSLIPS REPORTED UP ΤΟ 3

HOUR

HIGHEST RAINFALL RECORDED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY IN AN WAS BETWEEN 2 AM AND 3 AM, 70.4 MM; AND DURING DAY TIME BETWEEN 10 AM AND 11 AM, 61.4 MM.

A TOTAL OF 780 MM WAS RECORDED BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1 PM IN TAI MO SHAN.

SOME 300 HECTARES OF FARMLAND, MOSTLY TERRITORIES, HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE RAINSTORM, IS ABOUT $14 MILLION.

IN NORTHERN NEW THE ESTIMATED

LOSS

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