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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Monday, May 21, 1934.
Factors In Trade Recovery.
an optimistic account of the pro- gress of the iron and steel trade,
The New Swaraj Party.
It la
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Spiders To Spare
The Chilean town of Antofagasta · is afflicted with a plague of tarab- tulan.
In the less civilsed parts of South America these and similar | plagues are recurrent..
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934.
GOLD RUSH THAT
NEVER ENDS
NEW RAND STATED TO
BE RISING
GENERAL SMUTS' FORECAST
(By Norman Hamilton.)
What the natives refer to as d "snake year," or a "upider year,"
FEW years ago the decline of to position. Men shout above the or an "ant year” may be caused by A Johannesburg and the Band clamour. anything from the early advent_of
It is like the birth of a new Gar- iaat season's rains to
some com-
gantua. bination of still more obscure na tural causes.
goldfield was being predicted with dismal assurance.
Above ground the most specta- The official Government estimate was that in 1948 the gold output cular features are the great sand Tarantulas are ugly customers. would be £20,000,000-less than dumps, the "Alps of the Rand." For all their mesthetic disadvan-
half the present output-and that They are dotted all over the mine- tages, however, they are prefer-
in 1948 it would be only £10,000,-fielda, dazzling white, man-made rable to the handsome butterflies 000. The position seemed serious. hills that have a ghostly beauty at
in Paraguay, whose bite le capable! Gold was then about 848. an sunset and dawn,
of inflicting death.
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Changing Moscow
jounce and on that figure the com- Six million tons of sand, the re- panies could work only the richest sidue of the crushed and chemical- gold-bearing ore. Last night itly-treated rock, have been heaped The famous Suchareff Tower,was 1315. 9d. an ounce and vast on these dumps. In the early days built by Peter the Great, in Mosquantities of low grade ore can they caused blinding sandstorms cow, has been condemned. In two now be mined.
that chased people into their months the demolition will be com- The mines are making record houses and left them little peace plete.
Now the slopes are profita and already the Govern even there. The decision to remove this land-ment have taken over £6,000,000 in covered with binding substances, mark was taken on the vote of the excess profits tax.
including molasses; vegetation is Moscow.chauffeurs. They decided: President Roosevelt's declara-growing on some of them, and re- unanimously that it was a serious tion of his dollar policy has cently it was suggested that the bar to rapid traffic.
brought new visions of still higher top of one should be used as a The removal of the tower will be prices; and yesterday the shares sports field. followed by further demolitions. for which so dubious a future was Even sand-dumping is a separ- The wall of the Kitai-Gorod, where prophesied were being fought for ate occupation, undertaken by con- the first Ambassadors to Russia by a widly excited army of Johan- tractors who drain the sand out of lived, has already been attacked nesburg brokera,
the cyanide tanks and load it into
and is also to disappear.
Moscow is a changing city.
15 years it will be unrecognizable.
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"Wan't it Mr. Bernard Shaw
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On the basis of this spurt in cocopans which are run by wires gold, General Smuts recently fore-up the slope of the dumps and tilt- cast a "vast expansion" of Southed at the top.
other Many
industries have Africa. A new Rand. he said, 1s
been turned into gold by the Rand trising.
Vest Demand For Timber. Every 24 hours the mines re-
do
offices.
£760,000,000 has been spent One of the mines, the Robinson machinery, explosives, coni and Deep, is the deepest in the world. the other requirements for work- Men and machines have burrowed ing the mines.
[down.
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to the bottom those first two miles therefore, an elaborate organisa. will, afterwards, seem easy-a vertion for recruitment has been built tical drop of a mere 4000 feet at up.
But the old Rand is already one Midas. is able to say that in regard to export where the most serious Europe touched ita lowest level in of the wonders of the new world. problem has to be overcome, the 1933.
For sixty miles its headgears, bat-" figures are slightly better. He Estimates recently published by teries and duraps stretch out over quire over 1000 tons of wood for looks hopefully to the influence the United States Department of countryside that fifty years ago underground and surface work. Inga. To ensure their supplies the exercised by the various missions Commerce show a total tourist ex-was treeless veld.
Every second throughout the companies have plantations cover- that have been sent to other penditure abroad of £60,000,000 for
crushing ing thousands of acres in almost countries and to that progress in 1933. This compares with £00,000,-year the industry is
In one every province. £160,000,000 in ton of rock in its milla! Among the factors making for co-operative planning within the 000 in 1932 and
Power is obtained from the Vic industrial recovery and advance, industry itself which, he be-1929, which was the peak year in day it produces $6,000 fine ounces
of gold, which in a solid bar wouldtoria Falls and Transvaal Power electricity is playing a conspicu-lieves, will be the outcome of the American tourist trafik.
Europe's share of this expendi-be 46 inches long and at par worth Company, which claims to be the largest power supply organisation ture in estimated ous part. The statistics of the negotiations now going forward.
at £25,000,000 £153,000.
Night and day 22,000 Europeans generating power from coal in the Central Electricity Board show
compared with £40,000,000 in 1932.
and 22,000 natives are working Empire. The heaviert decline for any
And out of the £1,450,000,000 that electricity has made pro-
ingle country is in Canada, where there, underground and in the [gress even in years of trade de-
the drop in receipts from American great organisation of factories and worth of gold produced, at least cline. A 30 per cent, increase of Indian Congress leaders have tourists is nearly 50 per cent.
The prospects for this year are output in the years between 1929 evolved a plan for a new party and 1933 contrasts with an in-that will seek entrance into the much brighter.
Legislatures. The movement
to over 8000 fest beneath the sur- The native labourer, it has been crease of only 5 per cent. in the has its chief interest in that it Your Daily Smile! Tace, and they are still going found, works for an average per- use of electricity in other coun-is a revolt against the dominance
**** fod or "Theymonths and then goes tries. The Board is able to re- of "Mahatma" Gandhi.
From the surface to the working home. He returns«puly__}{"add" cord that 45 per cent. of the pre-true that the men responsible who said that all clever men have places for many men is about two when he pleases. To maintain mises in England are to-day for the scheme have made the bad memories?" queries a gosely-miles. If we have decided to ge the necessary supply of labour, using electricity. It may
be gesture of allegiance to the old writer. I don't remember. said with truth of British in-lender that is involved in sub- dustry that it is passing through mitting their scheme for his ap-
"John, John," called his wife a revolution as regards its mo-proval bui on both sides that act tive power. Electricity is every-is probably recognised as u foragitatedly, "Wake up. There's where being brought into the inal courtesy. From the time he burglar in the spare room."
John rubbed his eyes. factories. Its employment means was in England, and showed him-
"All right dear," said he, “Walt increased productive power self an impossible rolitician, Mr the morning then along with the freeing of the Gandhi has steadily ost ground charge him for a night's lodging." great industrial areas from the with his old following. grime that was formerly synony-not surprising since, having led Apt To Be Painful,
of civil "Bedroom fires are a menace, mous with prosperity, and the them into the moruss creation of healthier, cleaner disobedience, the Mahatma him-and should be stamped out, de-ions of ure are conditions for the workers. Nor self turned aside to pursue his clares a physical culturist. is this the end of the gains, for, campaign against untouchability, don't do it with stockinged feet. since the establishment of the which is not welcomed by the
Down In The Depth's Making Sure grid, electric power can be car-large number of high-caste men
Half-way down, the whirling ried along a wire into any dis- who are to be found in the ranks kick myself for missing that blades of alx-foot fan in a vast trict, and the Board is able to of Congress,
chamber pour air into the depths note that new factcries are be The new Swaraj Party aims to Captain-Better let me do it of the mine, so that at almost 8000 ing erected in remote pinces enter the Councils, while Mr you might miss again."
feet below the surface the tem- lo 90 de- that have hitherto known no Gandhi has never lost faith in
perature is kept down form of employment except agri. the boycott. For the second time
grees. But even at 30 degrees culture. This decentralisation of he is being over-ruled on a major Courteous Motorist "Can I glye working conditions are less than industry is altogether good. issue of policy. Untaught by ex-you a lift; sir?"
comfortable, as London finds for Another alteration in indus-perience, a now generation ac Absent-Minded Professor (beam-jone or two days each summer; and
the fact has been established trial tendencies is noted in the cepted Gandhi's assurance that ing)-"That's very kind of report for 1988 of the Ministry he could lead them to the pro- but I'm afraid I couldn't find a use the Bobinson Deep that a native of Labour. Amid all the fluctua-mised land, and only after years for a lift. You see, I live in a labourer loses 61b, in weight dar- tions of employment there is a of disillusion has revolt come.
[búngalow,” steady drift from what may be Congress must find new leaders classified as the productive indus- for its fresh enterprise. The old Oh, My
I read of an electrician who losity born of London street-up proud of being considered one of tries to those mainly concerned have either died or have been calls all his children after elee operations, we stand to watch the fattest and strongest men in the with distribution. That change relegated, to the background or cat terms. Walls in a name. need not occasion anxiety. The are under detention. There is no productive capacity of the work suggestion of such a change of
That is
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30 miles an hour, and about an- The natives seldom have any other 6000 feet shooting in a steel knowledge of conditions under shell down an inclined shaft.
ground, and most of them are not On the second stage of the jour-very intelligent. Yet the fatal ney we pass the cocopans carting accident rate for white and colour. masses of dull-coloured, valuelessed workers was only 2.38 per 1000 looking ore towards the surfact in 1982. A close study of accident for crushing and chemical treat causes, physical and psychological, ment. Every month about 117,000 and a carefully-drilled first aid raised from the and rescue organisation have Robinson Deep; every day 120,000 brought down the figures from tons are raised from the whole of 3.81 in 1918. the Band.
The origin of the Rand is morė romantic than fiction.
(Continued on Page 11).
at
ing his shift, and regains it before The starts again.
Still, farther down, with the cur
SPAIN'S FATTEST
MAN
Stronger Than Three
Normal Men,
WEDS DIMINUTIVE · WIFE !
Lisbon.
Meet Senhor Manuel dos Santos,
staccato, drill boring its way, into world. |the wail, preparing for a charge]: Manuel weighs 28 stone--and be jof ;explosives, MANA
|can lift a cask which thres nbṛmal From the 48rd. javel we start men cannot even move, t to walk to the bottom of the world He works as a warehouseman -B00ft down a ladder that seems with a British firm of wine
mar longer than Jack's beanstalk-ell chants. This is what keeps him be ded by the heat, nauseated by the golag for lunch:
|Båt, dond air, bewildered by the dia rising to meet us. And at the jend of the ladder wa drop into u
2 plates of soup, 2 Ibs, of most,
1 dosen eggs, & loaves of bread.
Unsympathetic adv er is enormously increased by programme as would give India Unsuccessful, author, "After my machinery, and a lessened em-a new hope. The new party will death the world will realise what ployment in the heavier indus be an opposition group, particti; have donor de la tries is not necessarily followed iarly as regards the acceptance Companion. "Well, don't worry by diminished output. The year of the White Paper as a satisfac, about it, old chap. You will with which the report deals was tion of India's claims. It will out of harm's way then.” ene of steadily decreasing un-alm at giving trouble in the
That's It' employment, and satisfaction Legislatures Itsformation. may be felt that the greatest however, in an acknowledgment To speed is how
[caught, a fina"DAD numerical Increase in employed that boycott and civil di workers was in the districts obedience have utterly failed, and Unless where the heavier, and the most a recognition that only through); A man was recently charged stripped to the waist, work alde by, is his wife. She is a diminutiva hordly hit. Industries are situat the Councils can any party obe with writing threatening letters. I side. Jack Hammers are racking brunetta, 4 feet 8 inches in height ed.
}tain effective, Influence in India shall have to tell the police about and fearing theft
and weighing only 6% stonem Sir William Larke, who gives to-day.
timber props are being hauled in- Beuter.
12 'oranges and 2 bottles of wine.
to get lighted cavern that seems to have In startling contrast with him
Sono place outalde turbulent night- other immense proportions” are. Ako mara, WA Manuel, tiny feet, T
White and black shaft sinkers. The other small, thing about him