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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.

AMERICA'S STAKE IN TURBULENT CUBA

BITTERNESS IN ISLAND

DUE TO SLUMP

papers in the world. Most of the US. TARIFF DEALS ANTICIPATED

morning papers can be bought ou Broadway before midnight, and one gets an unrecognisable edition of the same paper on one's breakfast

(By Rodney Dutcher.)

table. The certified Daily Ez-(Editor's Note: The following survey of the Cuban situation by press dally circulation of 2,054.248, Rodney, Dutcher was written before actual clash occurred in Cuba. The however, puts London well in the Cuban trend toward violence, however, has been foreseen in Washing- lead, and Paris is now a good second. ton for mouths, and much importance, is attached to conditions there But for the purchasing rate of by US government officials due to the huge dollar stake of America |newspapers per head of the popula-] in the revolt-torni isle.)

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tion the prize would probably go to Athens. Seven-figure circulations

Washington. sugar attracted many millions in are, of course, out of the cuestion

Thirty years after American American capital with resulting there, for it is a comparatively tiny troops freed Cuba from four cen-greatly increased sugar production. place. Yet all through the night, turies of Spanish rule, this island Then, in 1925-four years before for Athenians never seem to go to republic: now practically belongs to the world economic depression- bed, edition after edition of the Uncle Sam.

came the sugar market collapse.

many local journals appear, are Cuba's business is largely in the Prices dropped, and despite Cuba's loudly hawked as the small hours hands of Americans or is dollar strenuous efforts to stabilize" pro-- become larger, and are read at the controlled. U. S. investments induction prices have been falling' safes amid eager discussion. Cuba are exceeded only by those falling ever since.

The 'reasons for this are entirely in Canada and Cuba normally is In 1920, the total value of Cuba's political; there is little or no thirst Uncle Sam's best Latin-American sugar crop was nine.times .. for other news.

great as it had been in the prewar

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Total foreign investments in Cuba year of 1913. But, as recent re Sir Henry Lyons. are around U. S. $1,900,000,000, of porta snow, the 1920 value was 13 The children who resort in daily which Americans hold U. S., $1,-times as great as that of the 1931 hundreds to the London Science 750,000,000. Much of this invest

Cuba has not defaulted on any Museum will lose a fairy godfather ment is in the sugar industry, I when Col Sir Henry Lyons, the pre- Cuba's, principal crop, now suffer, of its. foreign debt, although the sent director, retires in October. Itling from the worst conditions in government has borrowed heavily: from New York banks, but a deficit was he who made the historical sec-its history.

of from U. S. $10,000,000 to US.

Indicated in $15,000,000 is

delaying efforts, and these last BIRTH.

results will hasten the victory 14th [JARVIS-On the

August elsewhere. The hideous failure 1933, at Victoria Hospital to of Prohibition has been a vast Mrs. Stanley Jarvis a daughter, moral tragedy. Not only was the

law everywhere defied; the defy ing of it became the foundation lof an immense illegal trading conspiracy. Its illicit and un- taxed-profits were reckoned to amount to some £200,000,000 a. year; and that wealth went large. Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 15, 1933. ly to the financing of organised Oh, Mother!

call me crime in much graver forms. Ma: Why didn't you The original "Dry" contention when that young man tried to kiss The Sweeping Rout Of that Prohibition and prosperity you?

[went hand in hand could not sur Maisie: I didn't know you want vive the years of the depression. ed to be kissed. The President's plain statement

Your Daily Smile

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Sugar Values Drop.

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tion the fascinating department it is.

Sir Henry was originally a sapper.)

In view of America's tremendous 1933 budget. Thousands of govern- As an engineer in the Egyptian Army he carried out some under-stake there, the task that lies be- ment employes are far behind in ground survey wark so successfully fore Summer Welles, newly appoint-their pay, though taxes have been that Lord Cromer asked for him to ed. U. S. ambassador to this revolt-boorted greatly.

torn island, is extremely important. The history of the little island be "lert" to the civil side.

But Sir Henry, as a serving sol- Welles' selection also portends re-which now engages the attention diers, could hardly be so trans-forms in the administration of Pre-jof the nation as the result of Pre-.- ferred without detriment to his pro-sident Gerardo Machado, Cuba's sident Roosevelt's action in taking fessional career. A special post dictator, who is maintaining him- hand in its internal affairs is was accordingly created for himself in office by ruthless repression romantic. that of Director-General of Geologi- of his political enemies. There Revaks Are Not New.

Ican be no economie improvement. Discovered by Columbus on his cal Survey.

in Cuba until stable government first voyage in 1492, it was first returns, say observers, and there occupied by Spaniards 'in`1512.. It can be no return of stable govern-pecame a base for Cortez, De Soto ment under the wave of terrorism and other early Spanish explorers, and suppressed revolution that now

and was ruled for centuries by exists.

Spanish governors who virtually In addition to bringing to bear enslaved the population. diplomatic pressure that may force Toward the middle of the nine- a change in Machado's political teenth century, when echoes of in- policies, the Rooseveltian", "new dependence wafted hack from the deal" is said to nave other plans Andes as Simon Bolivar began the to help pacify Cuba. If Cubans liberation of South America from will agree to calm down and quit Spain, the Cubans launched a re- fighting. Uncle Sam may offer them volt for freedom. There ensued a some reciprocal tariff, agreement long and bloody rebellion. Num- that would aid their distressed erove wholesale executions and sugar industry and pave the way for massacres by the Spanien quelled economic restoration.

the rebellion. President conditions border on

After several minor revolutions, disaster. With a tariff of two cents equally unsuccessful, Cuba's smold- a pound against it, Cuban rawlering desire for liberty from Spain sugar has had to sell in New York flamed up again in the Cuban war recently at less than seven-tenths for liberation in 1895. of a cent a pound to compete with

The mysterious explosion that America's domestic sugar,

destroyed the battleship Maine in transporting 100 Havana harbour in 1898, never ful- Expense of that powerful assistance, the For more than one reason, the

"It is the duty of everyone to pounds of raw sugat from sweeping advance of anti-Pro Prime Minister's announcement make a person happy during the Cuban mill to the warehouse.

thely explained, brought the United hibition sentiment would doubt in regard to petrol produced from week," said the Sunday School New York is approximately 44 result that Cuba was freed and set in States into this conflict with the less have carried the "Wets" to British coal is to be welcomed cher. "Have you done so, Freddy" cents. Thus, at 70 cents a hundred up as a republic and Spanish power triumph in no very long time. without reserve. It raises a hope "Yes," said Freddy, promptly. "1" pounds, this leaves approximately vanished after nearly 400 years.→→→ The story, now nearing its end, of Britain being one day assured, went to see my aunt and she was

126 cents which must take care of (China Press). of American Prohibition is within case of need, of adequate sup-happy when I went home.” out a parallel in the records of plies of petrol and fuel oil from social legislation. It is not yet her own internal resources. That fourteen years since the decisive may well be called a revolution- vote of Congress, ratified by the ary change in the prospect as legislatures of forty-six out of regards national security. For- the forty-eight States, imposed ther, it means that coal may yet

Prohibition.

President Roosevelt, expressed an opinion that is by this time, that legal liquor will be taxed for Nothing But The Truth.

That hair on my cost lapel has probably, shared by most of his the relief of income-tax payers countrymen when he foretold has had its effect. But potent come off Rover.

You're the first girl I ever kiss that Prohibition will have ceased rid the country of. a. monstroused,

above all has beert the desire to to be the law of the land by next humiliation in the flouting of law

But, officer, I was sure I knew Christmas. If it does not so and the subsidising of crime. the lady. cease, the fault will not be his There is little doubt that Mr.

Oh, I bumped my head against own. Since Mr. Roosevelt took Roosevelt's prediction will be a door-knob. office in March, the whole weight easily fulfilled.

She doesn't mean. a thing to meji (we're just good friends. and ever, darling.

I'll love you, for ever and ever

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Largely as the result of this ENGLISH GOVERNESS

economic blight 'in' Cuba's biggest industry, there are a half million unemployed among Cuba's 4,000,000 population. Wages in all Jines have fallen greatly and on many sugar plantations labourers get only 16 or 20 cents a day, or perhaps

have.

Mra. Naylor las native of Surrey-Reuter:

· BANANA · RACKETEER'S LAST RIDE

HONOURED.

Order Of The Nile. of 105,000,000. The victorious dustrial economy approaching its Their Future. "Drys" had chosen to give the old importance. The figures given

Little boys who, tell stories are new law the character of an by Mr. MacDonald included an kept inta it: the, office when they

Catro Amendment to the Constitution estimate of 7,000 men to be

King Fund has bestowed the work for their food and shelter.

Order of the Nile (fourth class) for the best of reasons. That brought into employment direct-

Per capita money holding in on Mrs. L. R. Naylor, an English meant. or was universally bely, and a slightly lower. number

Facts You Did Not Cuba slumped from U. S. $49.47 in governess who has had charge of lleved to mean, that it could never indirectly, in the opening phase

1928 to U. 8: $19 in 1931 to U. the royal children for some be repealed. But in February of the new industry-for such in

$5.30 in the early part of 1933 years. It is stated that this last both Houses of Congress effect it will be. But these

Foreign trade has dropped from honour has been conferred on voted for repeal by great major-figures relate only to plans of Financed by capital from the nearly U. S. $500,000,000 in 1929 to her in recognition of her "loyal ities. Since then the supporting which the Government have in- United States, a company has been an estimated U. S. $180,000,000 this and devoted services." verdict of eighteen of the separ-formation. The preference for a formed in Colombie to raise hemp year. ate States has been given in Con-term of years to home-produced for the manufacture of bags.

Depression Responsible. ventons specially elected for the motor-spirit, is guaranteed to all purpose; and the remarkable votes who take part in its manufacture; Screwing down the top of a new Such economic conditions recorded in the South may well and it has been pointed out how mixing pan that has openings in the naturally brought about a fertile be thought to justify the Presi-jimmense are the possibilities of bottom formis noodles and delivers Beld for political unrest and Machado's repressive tactics have (dent's forecast. For the crush-profitable production, in the judg- them to cooking utensils.

ing defeat of the "Drys" in the ment of experts in the coal in-

intensified feeling against him.tm/ elections to the Arkansas and dustry, and increased employ- Of German invention is a magni- Only a decade ago wealth and Alabama Conventions has been ment. The guarantee of prefer fying glass combined with a battery prosperity on a scale that Cubans

Warsaw. the first revelation of their wenkence over a term of years will fed electric lamp that illuminates never had dreamed of: wept the ness in the South, where Prohibi-wipe out of existence what is at articles being examined.

now distressed island. There was Scenes reminiscent of the burial tion had always been most firm-present a hopeless handicap on

plenty of money for everybody. of a Chicago gangster were, wite ly entrenched. The voting in the production of oil from coal. Synthetic jewels for bearings, in During the war, when European nessed at Kattowice during the Tennessee is confidently assumed To rafse the coal is an expensive precision Instruments have been beet sugar production practically funeral of a notorious local amug to have gone the-same way; and process. The extraction of the manufactured that are as hard as ceased and a world sugar shortage gler. in Arizona the discouraged petrol and other products is an-the genuine gems and more uniform, developed, Cuban sugar, prices, be- "Drys" have even failed to nom-other. The petrol cannot, there inate candidates. In every one fore, be sold at less than 7d a of the States so far consulted gallon, whereas the natural oil. they have been routed. When which has merely to be pumped production can undoubtedly be The peak came between 1920 and Poland, WAA Congress gave, its decision six out of the earth, can be deliver reduced very greatly. There is 1824, the ers known in Cuba se months ago it was believed that led in Britain at Ed. & gallon. moreover, the vital financial con- The Time of the Fat Cow Prices crowds of the dead smuggler's the bringing of the needed num-1With a definite period assured for aideration that any material freakyrocketed? Cuban raw sugar sold friends followed the coffin ber of States into line might the pursuit of research and the duction of Britain's Immense in New York for upwards of 11 wreaths of bananas and the work of years. But an eager development of the home indus- importation of petrol will go to cents a pound. Sugar planters which they cast into the open public opinion has overborne all try a business position, cost of reduce an adverse trade balance. grew wealthy; huge returns from grave-Reuter.

Shot On Polish Frontier

His racket" was bananas and

gan to soar and continued upward he was shot down at the frontier for several years until normal pro while trying to smuggle contra- duction was resumed, og band bananas and oranges into

The cortege was very long and

ting.