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CHINESE VIEW
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1949.
GREECE'S ECONOMY REELS UNDER STRAIN OF WAR
By KEITH BUTLER
frock-£5 to £10. Silk frock of beans
Good Morning!
So it's Pai, Fal, Changshal
to still higher prices, in a vicious xpiral. They hope the end of me guerilla war and the prospect of full-scale reconstruction will re morning and evening, store Greek economy to normality, and With normal
toduction 8 to £15. Mald's calico frock-1 day in day out.
Before, the Houp wax made trade restored, the experts hope 22/10/-to 56 Nylon stockings~-~
more palatable with olive oil.(wistfully, it sometimes seeman) £3/10/-n pair.
as Surgical" (3) Clothing Men's Shoes which is one of Greece's home that Greece's chronic wagon ond
Bocks, cotton & wool pruducts. Now oll has risen to the prices spiral will be controlled Specialist."
As long as thin sort of thing price of 6 per 1. weight. The
Isn't overdone.... portions.
Renerous people who never know mixture-1B/-to 15/-. Vest cot-Greek working classes have been and brought down to livable pro-i
the gesture is no tree and unstint- ing that you might ever guess that the family may atarve the rest of the week after you have left.
measura
Summer,
The
For the Communist guerilla war in behind this, n all the other
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££10.
wool-£3. Under ton-16/-;
The Jap captain of the Tokyo pants, cotton-15/wool-£2/ more hit by the increased price of
Shirts, cotton-C1/8 than by anything else. 16/-
Sight Government, with American help plagues of Greece. One third of "Giants" said that he had to de- Communist to clare himself silk-3/19/-.
has been importing seed oil to
the Greek national budget goes.. weight suit, ready made, £8; made mix with the olive of in an effort
Fet nway from Siberle wht the nation's support
Just played ball with easure-130. Winter Buit,
POW, to lower the price.
against the
guerillas, in addition them, ch to the American-aid-pouring into
An American, Mr. Cosin, says Greece at the rate of one million
there has been D revolt in the dollars per day.
The Greck people's contribu Carpathians. Somebody should tion has to be made with taxes-tail him down on it. high and increasing. To balance the budget, the Finance Minister to impose is obliged continually
capital lovien, new taxes, new new property tax increnses. Many of these levies come out of the anserseil retrospec-
But
It's a good thing the sunshine is cheap in Greece. Nothing cises. And while prices are high-maybe the highest in Europe this side of the Iron Curtain-wages are still fer- ribly low.
That's why Greece is a land of strikes, of poverty and semi-star- vation.
smiling, singing. of.
how they are going to make ends meet from one month to the next. Why are the poor always G much
more generous than the rich! A poor Greek
peasant wilf his family's food supply for but h the week on the table to rive hos seady made por material But the average Greek in still municatione should be addresie pitality to visiting strangers, Anal tande to measure, Greek materinst
-125; made to measure, English at his wits end how to make ends material-£0. Overcoats, ready meet. Mostly he does it by taking made £15: made to measure-£40 on an additional part-time job in Raincoats-£30. Pyjamas, cotton the evening after a main em-
ployment of
of the day is over, --£4; poplin and wik—£13.
A civil servant may work in a plways Woollen materials aro Greek hospitality is deservedly
expensive in Greece. travel agency in the evenings. Á renowned. I have
warmed the most been
but most bus driver drives a taxi at night,
and sleeps between fares. and overwhelmed by it in the Silk is locally grown, and remotest mountain villages, where wool has to be imported.
But against these prices are most Greeks still say they can the guerilla war rages around
1 driver or only a few miles away and the low fireek wages. The aver. Just get enough to cat, without be, often
merchant or business- lives and Reanty property of the age wage af
In the provinces, in towns like with... unanticipated taxation pensants are in constant danger. ductus in Athens is about £22
Inclusive. amontil
A bank Volos and Salonika, prices are. How the Greeks make ends per
amounting to hundreds of pounds anything. higher meet is the unsolved mystery of clerk or civil servant of about 10
per month.
these conditions years service gets the same. Few
Under onek from the Greek shop-gitin earn more than Athens, though wages are lower.
There, 90 per cent of the workers Greek businessman or shopkeeper civil prices, average
A Senior month. 12 a Salonika. markets of Athens and
heavily in dobi-to the can budget from one mouth to the
to next. To servant or head of department in aro ti show the cost of livin
mest the fresh taxes gets about £40 a tradesmen, to their firms, bank only gets (1) Food, Butter-10/per 16. Ar
he raises the Macaroni-2/6 per 1b. Caffe month. In the provinces wages are banks, to anyone who will lend and cover himself against further
money to keep them and?
unaxpected ones
hin goods-and the even lower. A worker in the light them
piral makes one loop more. industries in Volt only sunken their families going until better prices of a month. A taxi-cab times return and prices get hack about £10
As prices rise (they are now te normal, £25 a driver in Athens earns
But all of them are saying: more than 300 times as high as is month in a good reason.
"We can last like this to the end they were before the war) it that "Already huge waves the guerillas of the year, maybe. But after the families of the men fighting Cinemas and Hotels, it is under
in the mountains of strikes are anticipated in the who are hardest hit. Anxiety an late summer of this year.
to whether his family is starving Seems like Britain is waiting▸
the Greek dominates
soldier'a for Red China to give her the thoughts. If there is no relief Green light.
anxiety by from this gnawing 1960, despair of Greek soldier and civilian may add a new factor to the Greek struggle.
We have considerable sym- the reiterated pathy with Chinese hopes for a genuine say in the Colony's govern ment, although one cannot help feeling that not all the solely propagandists
unselfish, by motivated public-spirited ideals. There is, in fact, quite an assort- ment of desires and inten- behind An almost tions homogeneous surface.
are
The Chinese Reform As- sociation issued a statement for publication yesterday, at- tacking the points raised by the Kowloon Residents' As- sociation, and declaring that "racial discrimination ... would neutralise all the best intentions and sincere efforts
constitutional of
reform."
It also suggested that "non- British inhabitants consist of more than 99 per cent of the population."
modern Greece. Here are a few
G/3
per Cocon-8/9 per lb. Meat average 6/6 per ib. Cheese -6-per b. Ten--16/-per 1. Sugar-2/6 per lb. Apples-27- per b. Potatoes-8d per b. Fish 10/per lb. Eggs 8 to 1/-
each. Oranges (locally grown) 4d to 1/-ench. Tolled soap-1/-per small tablet.
Household Of Five Greck housewives reckon it costs £100 per month only to feed a household of five, two of whom are
children.
(2) Clothing-Women's, Colton
con
With this huge gap between prices and wares, the big mystery is how do the Greeks make enda meet. The answer is in their low standard of living and feeding.
The clerk or bus conductor earning £22 a month can afford meat for his family only twice a month. The rest of the time they live on bean soup or boiled greens and bread. For many it is a case
joaving any margin for clutkestack to 1941, and confront|
and other items.
than
No Wage Increases
the
mon"
in
The Government and the Amer- ican economic advisers are firmly increase wages. resolved not to They claim it would marely lead
CANADA'S OIL BOOM
Cahada is fast becoming a maior oil producer. The new oilfields at Alberta will save the Dominion 68,000,000 American dollars this year.
even encountering competition.
By JAMES ROSS
GROWING
Commonwealth resources without helds. The tragedy le the face the mildest that you cannot convince the out- side world, with the exception of the States, of the Importance of these new finds.
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Five And Twenty Black Flats
Sing a song of shrewd heads With Ave and twenty flais. Bullt so small, they're scarcely Fil for swinging cats. Privately kind Government Lent the public pelf, Then it bought 'em back again For to use itself!!
When the ld is lifted How the Press will sing: "Let's have a Commission Appointed by the King!"
But They Have Voters!
The Filipinos are sending a tax expert to study Hong Kong's systern. How not to do it?
A profitable new line of bual- ness in the Colony Is making signs. stylish "House Full"
stood, are
the main ellonts.
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This demolition of synthetic factories seems to be a bit of a Westphalla.
Always an up and coming DEX- son, Mr. Stewart o' the Braes declared on one
"I'd occasion, rather weer oot then rust oot," Imperial Oil refuse to predict Seems like the Reds have where the end of the par zone caught up with the Chase. will be reached. But they do say
it is an all-time record.
pay
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Seems that US. White Paper" Even at present it bids fair to is a bit black for the Nationalists. be the world's most famous well,
A Canton official says that the as the only other known equiva- lent on land is in the Middle East.
battle line in China is "the There are one or two wells in
frontier freedom." This, is, at production off the East coast of
least, one point upon which both the US. which equal the zone of Golden Spike. These are sides are in complete agreement." drilled from barges.
France's millionaire ragpicker Alberta's dire need now is for will now spend five years pick- sultable pipeline to carry away the quantity of oil that is being ing oakum. out at this discovered. It may be two or three years before all this great wealth of oll is available for ex-
The eagle eyes of oil-men from | The Canadians are not natural- all parts of the world are
only a speculative race-they are Just returned still very depression-conscious- Imperial Oil are drilling a wel} Alberta, I have from a 5,000-mile tour by air of and, despite the vast amount of 15 miles from Edmonton, known Golden Spike. The latest the world's largest fields, in the evidence in support of the clans us
that Alberta will-be-the-largest steps have established a fabulous in oilfield in the world, they remind pay zone of 518 feet of oil-bearing you of the disappointment of the sand with a good flow of all to the surface. More than 30 suc- oil boom in 1928.
cessful tests at cored intervals had been carried amazing well.
Veterans of the industry Texas and Oklahoma гру that discoveries in Canada are only the beginnings of a vast strikei that will stretch for thhusands of miles Northwards from Ed- monton to the Arctic Circle.
A casual observer might suppose that such statements were deliberately made to inflame public feeling by the dissemination of falsehoods, but this we feel would be a wrong impression. It is as well, however, to put the situation in proper focus.
We are not aware that any of the other plans for con- stitutional reform have brought in
issues. racial The more conservative ele- ment has insisted that both the electorate and electees must be confined to British subjects-but not only to
Yet cynics here used to Europeans. Further, it is
early in 1048: "You may get a few barrel out of Canada, but it untrue to say that less than one per cent of the popula-won'i amount to more than a drop
a bucket." tion is British-unless again ono restricts the word to mean Europeans. sympathising with some CRA aspirations, therefore, we deplore this possibly un- intentional strewing of red herrings and woolly state- ments likely to mislead the
masses.
Ottawa
measures
say
the
Now the 1920 oll. discoverica look like drops of water in the ocean compared with today's
A Young Man And His Fortune
By DOUGLAS
KAY
in a
port.
I the pipeline can be provided,
it can quickly be laid. The sooner this is, done, -the sooner shali we in the Commonwealth have a rich and valuable asset, which is not so exposed to the dangers of war as are our Middle Enst oll commitments.
Rich Asset
It is a great pity that the Can-
Its
Pipeline Plan
after the wor During and While
Canada was dependent on imports for roughly 90 per cent of her oli.
in production This year the
the Alberta should exceed
de-
In three years of austerity a after his armoured car in "The
Victorian vil mands of all the Western Pro- young Briton has multiplied Phantoms."
are his savings one thousand times. shop in Crown Passage, off Pall vinces. Already
develop monwealth cannot being brought forward in
The name of the wizard is Mail. Dominion House of Commons in Peter Baker. His age. 27. His In December 1845 he published] own resources with Its own sklil called and capital, but if we are too to build a pipeline from
of occupation-farmer, politician, and the first book-a novel Alberta to the West Coast
"The House of Defence," written slow to seize opportunities that This newspaper has gone Canada.
Publisher.
Starting with £300, he is by n young unknown authoress, exist in our very midst we can- on record as being theoreti- During 1948 one company alone
One thing is quile certain. during the war. It TAD cally opposed to the unde-drilled more than 138 wells in already a big business-man, and Elizabeth Berridge, who he had not grumble if others do so.
Alberta in the search for uil and will be one of the names of the met mocratic system of nomina-
through two impressions to bo Within five years, there will be a pipeline stretching more than In 1040 spent more than 100,000,- next decade. tion, but unlike the CRA we
When the
war started Petor come the Falcon Press's first best 3,000 miles scross Canada carry- 000 dollars on exploration work
Baker was 16. Against family seller.
ing all to refineries in the East do see the risk of having in-
In this Western Province.
On the strength of this success and West to the seaports of Mon- sufficient "responsible" coun- As a result Alberta in the orders he joined the ranks of the cillors. While real steps tu- middle of the biggest oil boom Royal Artillery, and was com the business began to flourish. It treat and Vancouver,
absorbed the greengrocer's shop Together with the vast mineral and base metal discoveries just wards democracy and self-in history. Men and equipment missioned a year later.
belonging to oil companies in the His exciting war career took next door.
Pater Baker has two nimms with nunounced as being available to government must be made, U.S. are daily pouring across the him first to the War Office as a
two border. Recently, means "mud
convoya it is by no
of over 30 vehicles each entened slinging" to say Kong is indeed short of per- sons with the capabilities (not to mention experience) of administering a colony of nearly 2,000,000 people.
that Hong Canada from the States, not to tonar-old Staff Captain in In- his publishing business. First is the North West territories adja-|
many persons
hunt vainly for all, but to drill holes and get barrels and borrels of it.
Sceptics
to give opportunity to young and rent to Alberta, Western Canada's of U.S. Then across North Africa and unknown writers who have a new future, with the help
and D fresh Italy with "The Phantoms," and approach
style, caplial, is assured. Anally into д German prizon Second is to produce quality camp, whon, in October 1944, the books twice as fast as anyone else. headquarters of an underground Both these aime have paid him, group he was running ahead of blg dividends. The Falcon Press, the Second Army in Holland was which published 10 books during its first year, will this year, pro- unearthed.
duce 200 different titles.
Leaders in the US. all indus- try with whom I talked could not understand why so little interest being In these discoveries was
Twice during his six months of displayed by Canadians and why captivity Peter Baker attempted 18- to Great Britain, with her past
escape, and in between times he development, wrote two books. lory for oversent was taking no interest in the operations.
There might be no scarcity of applicants for election-of all races-but of what level of ability and integrity? How
of genuinely high ideals can be found to spend an increas- These experts all said they felt ingly large part of their time it was strange that
Is capital, equipment and engineers in community effort? there a sufficiency of depend-were being allowed to develop able people willing if neces- sary to neglect their busi- thing to do with race
nesses
American
In 1940, soon after he was com- lasioned, he had taken over the producing of the editing and
broadsheets which Resurgam published the works of young
and unknown poets.
Under his direction the broad
Book Of Poetry
A few months later he published a his first complete book of poetry, The Land of Proster John."
the war, Back from
Peter
More Firms Now Baker's early successes enabled him to branch out in the publishing business. Early in 1947 ha tock half-interest with another young man, Graham Hutchison, who is now
managing director of tis group, in the Richards Press, founded by the late Grant Richards
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But Peter Baker's interests are import/export
merchant that the Chinese in Hong set about selling the two books
not only in publishing -Eighteen or he had written.
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But I found that often there months ago he bought seriously because his affairs not: the label here is large- had to be left to inefficiently unimportant should be was no interest in a young writer, works at Widnes in Lancashire and that the delay in printing Its output has multiplier tenfold.
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is selling release for, several years a ly all those domiciled here says. "go in the autumn of 1946 British books all over the world.
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