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Coalition In South
Africa.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
'MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933.
FAMINE'S RETURN
TO RUSSIA
DEATH IN WIDE AREAS OF
THE GRAIN COUNTRY
(By An Expert Observer.)
A Russian Interventionist Of the four Russian generals who commanded White forces in! the civil war against the Bolsh- eviks, General Yudenitch, who has just died, came nearest to success.
Many remember very vividly In the Spring of this year I visit-1 Apart from localities in the Eu- that fortnight in the autumn ofed the following districts of the ban districts and to the west of the 1919 when the sound of his gunNorthern Caucasus: the Kuban Pro-Stavropol, the diminution of reverberated in the ears of the
population is especially noticeable in With the vince, from Kropotkino to Krasno-the Eastern district, to the cast of Petrograd population.
Vinodyelnaya. aid of his English tanke Yudenitch dar; the districts of Stavropol and Stavropol as far as approached within 10 miles of the Armavir: and the Povolye terri-Famine also is especially acute in centre of the city.
Itories up to Salska Bieloglina-the Southern Steppe districts. But
the mountain tribes of the Cauca His attempt aroused far more excitement abroad than in Russin stretch, altogether, of 750 miles, by an autonomous republics have, so
f
far, escaped the scourge. itself. The bulk of the Petrograd car.
The chief problem of North Cau- population was almost apathetic.
One can judge of the extent of Its one reaction was a certain ner-easian agriculture is the famine, mortality from famine by approxi- vousness regarding what might which since the late autumn of 1932 mate figures given by the local pes- happen in the event of his success.
portera.
semi-starvation,
He failed for the same reason as has reached, appalling dimensions. Ple. For instance, in Timishbek the [population since the beginning of Kolchak, Denikin and This time, in contrast with the pre-fast winter has declined from 15,000 Generals
In the Ust-Labinskaya Wrangel falled-not because of ceding year, it is not only a matterjito 7,000,
which then Stanitza it has dropped from 24,000 military defent, but because of the of diesensions among his own up caused a fall in the productivity of to 10,000; in Dimitrievka from 6,000 labour and a lowering of morale. Įto 2,000; in Tlinakata from 3,000 to Miraculom Moustache
It has reached the point of actual 1,500.
In whole Yudenitch was a man of very death from starvation.
The two first named were peo- whom ordinary ability and a typical Rus- districts the population is rapidly pled by Cossacks, many of sian officer of the old school-bald. disappearing, and agricultural ac- were forcibly deported.
The two almost complete last, however, consist of Russian
bullet-headed and lantern-jawed.
The most remarkable thing about him was his moustache, each wing of which was as large as a fox's brush, I favourite occupation was gardening.
three years ago.
in
old
!
tivity is at standstill.
on 筳
of
villages where the fall in population. Maxi Deporations Of People can be explained only by famine. There are two factors which are Isobrinaya, Kaminogradskaya, La- simultaneously causing the diminu-zovakaya, Sednayegorlitzka, and His death leaves General Dent-tion in the population of the Nor other produce the impression
So far there kin the sole survivor of the four thern Caucasus, now so clearly ap-doserted villages.
Firstly, the measures for have not been infectious illnesses or Wrangel died parent.
large White generals. Kolchak, the the deportation and transplanting of dangerous epidemica commander in Siberia, was handed masses of the population. carried scale in those particular villages.
In larger towns also a consider- determined to made the last and over by the Czechs to the Bolshe. out an a large scale since last au-
tuma in connection with the State able reduction has taken place in highest bid for complete under vists and shot.
grain collection, and the fight the numbers of the population. standing. He advocated fusion) General Denikin now lives
against "sabotage" by the kulaks, This is in spite of more favourable as painly as General Smuts had Belgium a sad and brokea or "rich" peasants. Secondly, there conditions, in that a considerable previously done. The first re-man embittered by what he con-is the extinction of the population part of the town populations havn ception was not encouraging. aldered England's betrayal of Rus through famine, now in full' swing the right to food tickets. I was His own constituency passed Asia, sent back the English decora
The policy of expulsion and detold that in Krasnodar about 40,000- Iresolution of disapproval, and tions. including the K.C.M.G.
had died off. In Stavropol Dr. Malan, rebuffed at the time which had been given to him dur-portation was put into force prin-out of the total population of 230,-
Icipally against the Cossacks of tht 000 sawing the war. If, as seems not impossible, the the Coalition was formed,
Kuban territory. The Kuban Coa 50,000 out of the population of 140,- proposal to form a fusion of the the opportunity to gather
hacks, by tradition and mentality, 000 have succumbed, and the town On him! Nationalist and the South Africa sentients round him.
were the most resolute antagonista produces a lifeless impression. bitter- has fallen the mantle of General i
The rate of increase in population parties leads rather to
of agricultural collectivism. ness than to the desired amity, Hertzog, who maintained for so
During last autumn they exer given in official statistica no longer the old adage about "leaving well long a pose regarded as anti- Dangerous.
The barber
Even last year there cut eised passive, and also in some cases holds good. alone" will be once more endors British. The stage of conflict
prices.
active, resistance to the measures ofis little doubt that the increase of
So effective was}3,500,000' shown is the Soviet ed. Britain has for years been has now seen sel up in the Na-
the Government. thoroughly accustomed to a satis-tionalist conferences of
Character
their opposition that the Govern-turns was erroneous. This year the factory working arrangement, than one,State. the outcome of
Steering wheel and magnéto comment recognised in it a serious dan population of the Soviet Republics for Parliamentary purposes only, which is most likely to be seen in
ger, and suppressed it by the most is diminishing instead of increas- bined.
ling. {between parties which preserve the formation of a Centre party." their own identities; and it looks That. fuiling a fusion, was sug as if South Africa may have gested by General Smuts ns al- It might, of for the present at least, to con-most inevitable.
about tent herself with the same sys-course, bring
practical Item.
dis-
more
Coalition may be only half fusion undler Rnother name, leav- a loaf-though in practice it is ing outside Dr. Malan (who will better than the broken crusts of, join no reconciling pact what-i following perhaps an old enmity Not that the ever) with a notion of fusion is a thing mere-somewhat stronger than that ly of yesterday. It was, from which he commands to-day. But
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who shoves at
GOOD FOR SOMETHING "What sort of fellow is White?" asked Gates.
"Very good type," repiled an
trustworthy?" asked
rigorous measures,
rt-
The greater part of that particu. In the villages I visited the num- ar Cossack population were forcibly ber of deaths varied between twenty
Free-p-rooted from their villages and and thirty a day. The people atill deported to the Ural territories alive are in the last stages of en- They were thus practically anni-feeblement through semi-starvation,, *18 he
und also through eating such unna- hiluted. Gates.
The Cossack population remain-tural food as grass, roots, charred: Freeman nodded,
ing in their native districts were bones, dead horses, &c. "Very," he replied.
thinned through considerably would you lend money to him?" famine. Large Cossack settlements
Houses Abandoned For Ever in the Kuban Province are at pre- The majority will doubtless dio "As to that I can't say," replied seni almost uninhabited. The last from malaria with the oncoming of Freeman.
"I've never let him living remnants will be finally de- the warm weather, this disorder
any.
'I've only borrowed from molished before the end of the year having prevailed to an unprecedent-
asked Gates.
•
who made the Coalition, the na-minority. Such tactics do not} Lural second step; as is proved by help the "union of hearts" which the fact that when the new Gov-the birth of the Coalition was ex-
More impor- him." ernment was formed in March pected to bring.
Parliamentary mano- last, General Smuts, then Deputy tant than Prime Minister in 'suppoprt of jeuvres of this kind is their cer Overheard this old-adversary, General Hert-tain effect on the community t "He's quite an institution."
The extent to which evil "You mean he's supported zog, made a speech at Stander-large. ton, Transvaal, in which he em-passions have already been rous-voluntary contributions."
is shown by the reported phasised the fact that although ed the existing parties would re-assault main in being, they would almost trivial as
if the Colition been, was certainly merge
on Dr. Malan. which,
it
The
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COSTLY.
He came
through famine.
Thus, from ed extent since last autumn.
political point of view the Cossack danger may already be considered
(Continued on Page 11)-
to have been eradicated.
by.
Brutal Campaign Of Grain
Collection
greatest proportions.
THEFT OF FATHER'S CLOTHING.
Populations have diminished, nol to have seeme
the careering along
only in those villages against which rare thing in road in his car. Suddenly he es measures of expulsion and other proved satisfactory. At the current South African life, Aspled a friend, and he pulled up munitive measures have been applied, Three Months' Prison general election, which followed well as the intransigent Boers with a loud screaming of brakes.
For Habitual Thief, but in almost all the villages I visit "Hallo," said his friend, "you a two months, the to whom he makes his ap
journey. jin less than
In the ed during my
Kwan Sui, unemployed, of 1 YE Government forces literally peal, there are many of the Bri-motorist now? How long did it Stavropol Province, for instance, swept the board, both Labour tish whose disatisfaction is take you to learn to drive?"
from which no considerable depor-On Terrace, was sentenced to three and Independents being virtual-casily fanned to a flame,
"Three or four" said the motation has taken place, the decrease months' hard labour by Mr. E. W. ty annihilated. This, on the British are outnumbered. but torist.
this morning for stealing clothing face of it, looked like the giving they are not an easy minority to Three or four weeks?" exclaim in the population has reached the Hamilton at the Central Magistracy of a mandate for not merely a coerce, and some of them are sold the other,
There were rumours that in the from his father, Kwan Pui, a pri- The motorist shook his head dis- fusion, but almost anything else plainly disappointed with the re
town of Stavropol and its surround-vate watchman.
Complainant stated that the ac which the Government might sults of Coalition that they look mally. choose to bring forward: Even with added suspicion on the pro- "No-care, old chap," he replied, ing districts cases of plague have
occurred, but I was not able to obcused was in the habit of stealing tain reliable confirmation of this his clothes and pawning them; and from the local inhabitants. But as he implored the magistrate to send to the widely-spread stories of can-his son to gaol to cure him. nibalisia, I received complete con- firmation of these, with names and details, in the towns of Krasnodar and Stavropol.
now, it is quite conceivable that ject of fusion.
The East, Lon-
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AMERICA'S FINANCIERS Backs to the Wall-street,
Facts You Did Not
Know.
POPPY SALES ON SATURDAY.
$5,141 Collected.
Up to last night the suma collect
the electors in the main are more don (Cape Colony) "Daily De-The Perfect Husband. in favour of a full and acknow- spatch," reviewing recently the Made, not born, ledged party union than some of whole position, declared: "More their elected representatives ap- and more. It is becoming evident pear to be. Coalitions, however, that the Nationalists are regard are subject to exactly the same ing this Coalition as the first
The famine is not so much the strains as are homogeneous Ad-step towards the complete des- ministrations-but cannot, in all truction of the Bouth Africa
result of last year's fallure of crops cases, bear them equally well, party," To minds harbouring
as of the brutal campaign of State Little more than another month that opinion, the overtures of a
About the size of a fountain grain collection. For that reason, had passed before the familiar Hertzog, and even in sume, de-l note of political dissatisfaction gree of a Smuts, will seem but pen, a hydrometer has been invent, even such localities as the northern began to be heard in South Africa, developments of a plan for com-ed that tells when concrete is dry districts of North Caucasia, in
Lory, did not escape. The situation in Hong Kong and Kowloon amount both inside and outside of Par- plete absorption. In such an enough to lay a wooden foor over which the crops were quite satisfaced and paid in by the poppy sellers varies very much socording to ed to $5,141, slightly less than the liament. The taxes lald on the atmosphere, the revival of Natal's it.
amount' collected last year, locality. mining industry were resented, scarcely dormant desire for
Three nations, Venezuela. Colom
collections, however, have yet the farmers complaned of their virtual separation may reason"
Fast Dwindling Populations received, from Talkoo, the Services burdens and disabilities, and ably be expected. The one man bia and Ecuador, have been linked Interstate Jealoueles found vent who can do the most to make by South America's longest high- The territory along the Northern Outporis, sale of wreaths, Church trusted way, more than 2800 miles in Caucasian Railway, for instance, collections, K.C.C. dance, charity regarding the allocation of port General Hertzog › more
producer a more favourable impres football match between the Services folios. Among legislators, at by the British is Dr. Malan, with length dra
Bion, thanks to the existence of the and the Rest, an auction at thei any rate, if not throughout the hisstalk of the right to secedo, to country, the old disunity showed be, neutral in war-time, and to A device to record the roughness German concession, Drusak in that Hong Kong Club, and a raffle at the itself again along its former preach republicanism. That is of highways on a roll of paper har neighbourhood, This agricultural K.C.C.* lines. Lats, a Asgust, disar- a programuge calculated to make been invented that can be meunt concession affords the people of the Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfs was in charge pointed at polug many fair pro-any alternative appear.respec ed on an automobile instrument murrounding, villages some possibil- of the sellers in Hong Kong and Mrs.
ties of occasional small earnings. J. H. Hunt superintended Kowloon fessions fading: General Hertzog
board,