THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1988.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938.
500 Days of War TO-DAY IS the 500th day of
warfare between China and
the Japan. China has been heavier loser, for the cost to her
has been lives and more lives. To Japan, the principal cost has been money-for instance, at been £250,000,000 has lenst
resources in drained from her
the first fifteen months of war- Tare-money, that will never come back unless she can obtain a portion in indemnity or lands from China. Reduce that enor- mous amount into expenditure per day, and you discover that for every additional tick of the clock that resistance from China
is encountered, Japan is spending just over £5. No nation in the world can stand that strain on its resources indefinitely,
China, which contains a quar- ter of the world's population, is paying for the war with human lives. Over a million soldiers have died on the battlefields, but over 26,000,000 civilians have been killed, either directly from bombs or bayonets or indirectly from starvation and disease brought about by the war.
Zorpe AhTelas
POINTS POOL WORLDS
DANZIG
MEMEL
ALSACE
LORRAINE
S.W. AFRICA
ESPEN MALMEDY TANGANYIKA
CAMEROONS TOGOLAND
NEW GUIN
БАМОА SILE
We've had a nice Czech already. Which of these shall we make "homes"?
"Mack and fippence is their cry
ROYAL commission has left England for the British West Indies to "inquire into social and economic conditions in Barbados, British Guiana, British Hon- duras, the Leeward and Wind- and ward Islands, Trinidad Jamaica.
These islands, lush and fer- tile. He in the warm sea cast -of- Panama, off the Gulf of Mexico, and between them have a population of almost 2,000,000 people.
They have a considerable value to the British Empire because they supply tobacco, bananas, rum, oranges, sugar, coffer, asphalt, and oli.
Let us look at Jamalca, where the. most recent riots have taken place and whose troubles are representa- tive of the West Indian problem. It is a view to which distance does not lend enchantment.
Here are slums and poverty, cruelty and unhappiness, and and recent events of such blood violence and tears as to remove the narrow line which divides history from hysteria,
This summer, on the eve of the centenary of slave emancipation, rlots broke out in Jamaica. Pos- albly the forthcoming celebrations had reminded the workers on the plantations that they were free- to starve.
Earlier in the year reports had reached London that thousands of children were roaming the coun- tryside unable to go to school through lack of food and clothing.
Hundreds of men and women had pleaded to be allowed to enter the Jall in the capital city of Jamaica to get food.
Perhaps this evidence of what Mr. Lloyd George from personal
known.
In an appeal issued this morn- ing, the Bishop of Hongkong seeks donations of money and food for the fifty thousand star- ving people still remaining inf
stuffs; for twelve months now vigilant Japanese warships have prevented, foodstuffs from reach- China's losses in man-powering the people in the inost during the first fifteen months diabolical blockade the world has of warfare will, it is anticipated. be exceeded by the terrifle losses she must sustain during the forthcoming winter. The Good Earth, which has given two bountiful crops each year for centuries, has been scorched and withered by man's inhumanity to man, and for the first time in China's history must completely fall the nation. There are four hundred million mouths to feed: the harvest hus garnered sufficient for less than half that number. Even with her gener- ous Boil, China in time of peace must import considerable quan- tities of rice and other food
Canton. They represent a{ 5,000th part of the total number in China who face starvation and n relentless winter. The very magnitude of the disaster that threatens China precludes: adequate assistance, but we in Hongkong can at least assure that those 50,000 in Canton will live through the next six months. 'The lives of many of them are| in our hands..
By STUART FLETCHER
experience referred to in the House
of
Commons last June, as a "slummy Empire" may gain an embarrassing vividness when it is remembered that the 4,450 square miles of Jamaica' are divided into three counties named Middlesex. Cornwall and Surrey, and that its map contains such homely place names as Kingston, Westmoreland, and Falmouth,
Here, while many of us in Eng- land were basking by the seaside, there were bayonet charges by the police, violent deaths of men and women, charges of third degree methods, a state of panic so acute that the working people ran for cover if they heard so much as thre sound of a motor-car engine in the distance.
Even Charles Dickens in his A grave felt the repercussions. film of A Tale of Two Cities" was banned lest it should inflame the populace!
What is the matter in Jamaica? Here is the view of Sir Stafford Crippa: "I know a one-roomed shack in this city," he said, in Kingston. Surrey, Jamaica, last month," in which twelve persons live, including nine unemployed adults. While these conditions exist, it is impossible to talk of freedom, except the freedom of the dead."
Sir Stafford advocated home rule for Jamaica and promised support by the Labour Party.
Jamaica's population is nearly a Bixteen million and a quarter. thousand are white, 850,000 are Negroes and the rest are blends of
Negroes, Chinese and other races a mixture which gives many of them an extraordinary beauty.
The island is under the ultimate control of the Colonial Office, but through a Legislative Council it
has
certain degree of self-govern- ment in the social services. The majority control on this Council, however, la in the hands of the planters and the employers, not in those of the natives.
Unemployment is widespread, plantation workers' wages are regarded by the natives as impos- sibly low. Sanitation, housing con- ditions, water supplies, hospital services are appalling.
Sugar. grown on the spot. more expensive than in England, and the shops deal mostly in tinned foods.
The home of many a Jamaican worker consists of strands of dried bamboo woven round the frame- work of staken, topped by a roof of palm thatch. Sacking for the floor, a table, and an ofl stove com- plete this model one-room dwel- jing.
In Kingston to-day there are shacks roughly made out of the sides of packing cases and sheets Better-typo of corrugated Iron. houses for the workers are made of tapla-clay and chopped cane Abre mixed-but they too have only one room, and are quite dark Inside, even at midday.
In the hospitals anæsthetics are luxurles and so low in the general standard of living, that a writer in "The Times" recently declared!
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"If you saw the way he drives, you'd be tickled to death that we're parked!"
"People lie in wait for the tourist outside the hotels and dog his foot steps through the principal shopi ping streets until he begins to won der whether three hundred yearl of British administration havé bred a race of types, cadgera, ber: gats and prostitutes.
"Tho very
infonts in armi stretch out their hands when thes see a white Ince."
Demonstrators led by Alexander Bustamante, a picturesquely silver hntred money-lender, marched through the streets of Kingston this summei crying: "We want mack and Appenee? -local slang for one shilling and three
pence.
The chief Industries in Jamaica are the production of linnanas, sugar, rum and coffee. Britain buys twenty million bunches of bananas a year, and the total nanual value of the banana crop is about £2,000,000. But this year an old popular song has regained topi enilty" Yes, we have no bananas."
For the banana, a symbol of hope to the Jamaicans oecause its cultivation dates since the days of slavery, has been attacked. by..." banana spot disease. Eighty thousand acres havi been afflicted, and as a great part o the crop is in the hands of smallholder who cannot afford to night the pes exports drop and wages fail
Eugar covers 40,000 acres of planta tions, and some £600,000 worth of rai sugar and molasses is experted at nually to Canada and Britain. Run of course, in extracted from sugar can and brings in another E150,000 to tli planters.
When the sugar canes are being ei from January to May the natives the plantations work from seven in t morning to five in the evening goth ing perhaps four tons of canes at rate of 12. a ton They want “ma and fippence "at least, but they are ri
trado allowed to form
unions! negotiate for it.
On top of that there is econom competition in England where bi Augar is grown. with the result th there is Government restriction sugar production in Jamaica. Out o total crop of 120,000 tons grown i year in the island, England wol allow the growers
sell only 00, tons. Another reason for falling waj But back at home profits are made. The net profit of a big s firm, on whose estaten riots occu this year, rose from £724,852 in 192) £1,327.553 in 1937. In this inter a dividend of 101 per cent. was paid shareholders.
Meanwhile from reasons of housing and economie irresponsity the legitimate birthrate in Jamh is 15 per cent.-the highest in y civilised country in the world.
Mr. Wedgwood Benn, the lat M.P., alleged in the House of Comak last June, that the success Cavernar in Trinidad was depend on his being "acceptablo to the ini trial interests."-
This seems to be confirmed bi rhyme. Call Calypso singer's singers are the troubadours of Ti dad To an accompaniment of rui rhythms they comment in sucet doggerel on all the news of the -from the abdication of Edward to Test matches and local weddiri
Here is a poiliical one about an popular Governor, who was regat as acceptable to industrial interes I must be very frank and any I was very glad when Sir Holliste
audy.
He cared only for his own enformi And did nothing to help emp
ment.