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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1930,
MALTA IN THE NEWS
Malta has made one of its rather rare appearances in the news. The British Gov- ernment has announced that it will assist Malta financially with a grant of £1,500,000 spread over five years.
The problems of Malta may be of some speelal Interest to Hong Kong, Malta and Hong Konk are alike in being island bases of the Commonwealth, Inhabited pre- dominantly by non-British peo- ples. Their economic life depends on their special position in the Commonwealth.
quests. But it could not negotiate when a pistol was pointed by Dr. Mintoff at its hend.
Second thoughts
While Malta has been in the news, there has been a good deal of discussion about its long-term prospects na well an ita Imme- late difficulties, The recent crisis-if it can be called a crisis may thus have served a useful Fortunately the Maltese cabinet purpose. A number of key had second thoughts about its facts stand eight, out in the ple- method of approach. A cabinet ture, and clearly neet more con- crisis hail occured, and Dr. Min-sideration than has been
By "Windrush' Special correspondent
toff had gone into opposition. The Malta was of profound strate-prime minister, Dr. Bolls, made gical importance to the allies in a very adroit move preparatory the last war. If it had been lost to resuming negotiations. He in- the British position in Northvited
distinguished Anancial Africa might have becoine unten-
expert, Sir George Schuster, lo able. Some observers thinks that came to Malta for a brief stay us Hitler. Instead of attacking financial adviser of his govern- Crete in May 1941, had attacked ment. Mialtu, he might have put himsel
a position where he could not be defeated. At least, this is or- quable. Today the strategic value of Malta remains probably as great as at any time in the past in spite of all the inventions which have so much changed the whole nature of war.
מ.
The political and financial troubles of Malta ore therefore a thing which intereats not only
Schuster was one of the best men he could have picked. He had In the past been in charge of the finances in Sudan, and later in India, and in his term of once in both countries had combined Anancial skill with a talent for winning the conadence of the feaders of the poiltical parties.
Th DER MANDELE Netherlands Consul Genera. and Mrs. Van der Mandel rarily announce the birth o' The daughter Hester Dorine Malia itself, but Great Britain a budget which went as fne as it
and all the Commonwealth.
(Jutie 8.
THE MINISTERS RETURN
blein, here,
The history of Malta since the war has not been as happy as was hoped. It began s post-war arcer in a bluze of glory. Malta was the "George Crots faland"- the George Cross had been con- Cerred on enlectively because of the great gallantry and endu- ance of its people under German ind Italian bombing attacks.
In 1947 i recovered its self- overning constitution which had been suspended in 1933. It had been abrogated in 1933 because of the political sabotage by a pro-Italian party in the legisla
ture,
Difficulties
Elections returned
a Labou
overnment, and this quickly ran
no financial difficulties. There were not really of its own mok- ng. It inherited from the period
the
direct British administration come very costly Habilities-for More- example food subsidies. over must be admitted that British, preoccupied with defence problems, had postponed various public works, for example school Building, which the new Maltese Government rightly took up. All this was costly. The result was hat the budget began to show a fangerous deficit.
After consultation with Schus- ter, the Maltese cabinet prepared was reasonably to expect Malta to go by its own exertions straightening out its finances.
in
Thereupon the British Govern- ment showed itself ready to meet the Maltese leaders more than that. Since the first negotiations broke down, it had intensified the Maltese difcuity by devaluing sterling. The result was the £1.600,000 grant announced re- cently.
Kiven
They may be them in the post, summarised as follows:
Malta's prosperity depends on In the the employment alven Naval Dockyards.
Other income sources
Malta should obviously try to develop other sources of Income. it can extend its industries: It can develop a tourist trafic. But there are limits to what can be thrive chiefly be a navul base.
done,
In the long run it wit
Malta's Interests are thus linked every closely with those of Groat Britain.
Great Britain has certain very
scarcely follow the course of other parts of the Commonwealth and adopt à Dominion form of government. Be true that the present powers of the Molteno government may be extended, Bul como element of dyarchy, of di- vided responsibility between the Maltese and the British, is bound to continue.
BOOM TOWN
-By- Gordon Young
What, then, should be the fina of political development 10 newspaper Malta? One Loudon
Once again Britain goes out threw out this interesting sug to prove that, however dead gestion: "Would Mnita not to she may look, she won't li belter" it naked, "If it sought a place like that of the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, lo - tinate connection with this coun- try, instead of continuing to "ba under the Catoniai Omee?"
down.
The business men from the Motherland are out in Toronto now, preparing to make the big- gest post-war bid to step`up export trade with Canada, which This is a peculiarly Interesting lust year earned Britsin £102.- idea. The proposal might bô| 000,000-worth of dollars. extended to other parts of the They are staging the most nin- Commonwealth with circums-bitious display yel at the Inter- tances rather similar to those ar antlonal Trade Fair. Malla--say to Gibraltar and Cyprus,
The discussion which is taleing
More than 600 British exhibi- tors have paid 17%, a square foot to lease 45 per cent of the show's entire floor space...
Thousands of dollars have been place in the Press may at least Great Britain is not indifferent precision Instruments, moter-cars, elp to convince the Maltese that spent to boost British machines, Britain has certainly not behaved to their troubles and anxieties, textiles, chins and closs.
to Malta. The Prospects good parsimoniously present grant follows on a grant
Sir Holland Goddard, the chalr- of £30,000,000 made it the end ¦ man of the British section of the of the war for restoring the Fair, told me: "We are out to definite responsibilities to Malta. bomb damage done to the island. gain our proper share of the Canadian market, which has been Dut it inust be admitted that in interfered with by the war und Having allowed the Maltese eco- nomy to be dominated by dock-
the pressure of day to day affairs, the terms of Lend-LenKE, And yard employment, it must Aut
countries like Malta are apt to our prospects are good." jake steps which would .cause
be forgotten The Colonial any pudden cutting down of this Offee has not the knack of In Sie Holland's optimism.
Alas, not all Canadians sharo Many In a war the peo-spiring affection. employment.
Something when I have met fear that Bri- ple of Malta are inevitably in a needed to keep Malta more pro-fin is doomed to lose ground in kind of front ilne. peacetime they need special con-
Thus inminent in the public mind.
cideration.
Because Malta is very small, and its parties are nevertheless divided into six groups, st
atmosphere
Canada further to the
United
Now is the time, in the goo Stoles, both economically and The politically, unless she makes sull generated by Anancial agreement, to try to greater efforts to hold her own.
constitutional
crente some new can machinery.
Caribbean island boom
THE HOLY Vincent in the South Carib-
GHOST
The reasons they give are many and various, ranging from the hu nense unpopularity of Britain's Socialist Government, and 'expe elally of Sirachey and Haruld Wilson, to the inflow of United States capital investiment which has followed the fabulous Indus- trial development of Canada since the war.
Already America has a total of
Ten years ago a 15-20-acre used to run a hotel there, buj island off Grenada or St. who has lately leased the island | £2,000,000,000 Invested in Canada
and hotel to an Englishnan.
-more than the total American Carrincou is n dependency of holdings in Europe, And there Grenada, and nearly 9,000 neren are plenty more dollars on the in extent.
It is mountainous, way. thickly populated, and produces sea island cotton from which ex- pensive men's shirts are made.
bean could be bought for £200 to £300. Today there is a boom-the price is four
By THE REV. R. F. V. times as much.
SCOTT, D.D.
en-
to us, after we had closed the Mintol. Mralle minister, D. only and always to use the word
nists.
Lime form
.
Limes grow there, and only n some years tew weeks ago an advertiser, wan offering for sale a lhe farm of
By George Hunte
notation in modern specchi Grenade belong to
but a number of the Islands near
understand-ters
::
The £70,000,000 Labrador iron project is to be financed largely by American money. T'ho petro- leum companies across the border have a stake of more than 65 per cent. in Alberta's ofl.
Missed chance
The visit of the Colonial Secretary and the War Secre- tary to Malaya, and of Mr. Strachey to Hong Kong, has done much goed already and may well do more good in the future. It his brought local defence and other problems home to them in a way the filles never could. That is especially true of the human problems, which are so im- portant in places like Singa- pore and Hong Kong. It is well known that the Army have acquired a very large area in the island of Singa-
An English Naval Commander pore for the accommodation
has just paid £12,500 for a 12- of the troops and their fami-
acre island a few miles from lies, and the provision of other
The Churcht is often accused of Grenada. He bought it from an- amenities. This development
other English Commander who
£2,000 for t paki must now be fairly well ad-
causing misunderstanding by re-
And the dividend money from taining in its vocabulary words
such investments now percolates vanced. and Mr. Strachey
which have changed or lost their "8.
back to America, no longer to the promised that the work of
meaning. An instance of this,
Mother Country. Bald one Canu- some pay, is, to be found in the
dlas sympathetically: Guess the erecting blocks of flats for
use of the words "The Holy
war just stripped your cupboard. married quarters would be
Ghost" to describe God's kift
bare.' Many islands off Grenada- reveral hundred neres. Peilt Mar- speeded up in Hong Kong. Last year the Maltese cabinet through Christ to His Church on
West Indian home of nutmeg, tinique, a few miles to the North for the British fade-out on Soci- Canadians put part of the blame The word Ghost, He said he regarded this as appealed to London for financial Whit Sunday.
they
maintain, conveys an
spices and cocoa and St. Vin- East of Carriacou is a good fish- alism and red tape. In the Oll the key to the welfare pro-id. Unhappily it did not condust
Several peasant Men's Club on top of the sky- its care very adroitly, The cabinet tirely wrong iden to the modern cent, which is famous for its ing station. at that time was dominated by mind, and it would be far better arrowroot and sen island cotton, owners live scattered on its hills scraping Palliser Hotel in Cal- an able but
word are privately owned. A correspondent who wrote
Closer to Grenada are the gary a top oil executive told me Is a former
The islands near St. Vincent Sisters, two pinnacles sticking a hair-raising story of how Bri- "Spirit." The word "Ghost"
has, Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He is Indeed, a rather unhappy con-blog mainly to local famlites; out of the water, where the fish- tuin has missed out on one chance discussion on the conduct of a rudient demagogue, rather like
ing is said to be excellent. Dia- to participate in the Alberta oll the troops also emphasised the famous Bustamente in the we still use the word
cocoa plan- mond Rock, which rises 670 feet boom. or business men this point, though the provi-West Indies. By some people he quite naturally and
In St. out of the sea, has been given To 1940 this man declared, a
another
name by sailors. On British oil concern flew its repre- sion of married quarters by is suspected of being virtually ably. We can, for instance, speak George's the capital.
Cellow-traveller of the, Commu- of The Spirit of Courage, The Englishman will buy
But every now and then an rough day local skippers any that sentatives out to Alberta, ar- no means solves all problems,
an island. the sea is really bad close in to ranged Spirit of Truth, The Spirit
to acquire for about The unmarried-men-may-be-
or not, Love, and peuple know and under-One Calivigny, hus-just-been "Kick-em-Jenny-and-give-it-a-£170,000-a-majority interestin Whether this is fair
stand what we mean,
sold
for £12,500.
wide berth to Westward.
two happier in the New Territories
Independent Canadian oll Mintoff wreeked the negotiations
The islands of Grenada can Not far from this fierce little companies, than in the city, but there are
with London by taking a hector-
be reached easily from the main- rock lies Jinny, a bird sanctuary The British concern applied to thousands of single men who ing line. He said that if Great
land by a small boat with an inhabited by pelicans, boobies, the Treasury for the dollars, But But it is just in this that there outboard motor, Some have their cormorants · and man-of-war the Treasury officials knew better now and then get browned Britain would not furnish fan-
the scale needed, is an unanswerable argument for own private beaches and are birds. On the other, side of the than the inen. The money was Poff by excessive familiarity clal aid on
Multa would offer itself to Russle, the retention of the stranger covered with coconut trees, nut- Sisters lie the Aunts, named in refused and the deal fell through. with the landscape, and look
It was peculiarly foolish to talk | word." When we speak of the meg and ground crops. Others French." Les Tantes."
The two companies have now forward to at least one night
in this way, for London had been Spirit of Courage, Truth or Love, are overrun by grass and shrubs London Bridge, less than five grown to a point where they have a week in town. Much has
ready to meet all reasonable re-
we normally speak of some thing and rise sheer from the sea. miles from the airport, has a holo joint value of £1,650,000, and ten- Those owned by business men, right through it, caused by hun- are partners in a field discovered -an Influence, a mood, a been done to look after them,
dency; and the pronoun we use are used by them for week-ends dreds of years of wave erosion. a year ago which has prospects but one is always forced to
is "It. That is quite fatal to a or long holidays.. There is good To By over the islands off of becoming one of the richest in ask whether it is enough. above all. One sometimes real understanding of God's gift sea nahing and ashore there are Grenadin just after sunrise is a Alberta.
In Montreal a member of a big The very least one can do is wonders whether this was not communicated at Whit Sunday. plenty of wild pigeons to shoot. glinuse..of Paradise. And to
travel up and down the islands power company told me they had' a Person, not a show A minimum of a greater gift than all the That gift was
which dot the 160 miles of sen just viven £300,000 contract for and social re-thing. For that reason alone the sympathy and understanding politicians
between Grenada and St. Vincent electric generators to an Ameriena when one of them, now and formers put together had words "The Holy Ghost" must
is. for the hunter or fisherman, a firm. bo retained in the Chrisllan then, gocs a bit off the rails.
holiday which he meons to nukė given over so large an area vocabulary.
before he dies. No one with the slightest of mankind. The standards sense of history can fail to re- they set on the field of play, cognise how much the British too, were high, and misde- here and there soldier has done in the past meanours two centuries to bring law must not be allowed to ob and order to the wide-flung scure the fact that those
Levera Island, near Sand and fevers and disorders of this standards are accepted and to
Green Islands, is owned by att world, to give stability to a very large extent maintain.
Anglican church in Grenada. It was left to the church by its pre- threatered frontiers, and to cd.
vious owner, who was from keep the ring clear for the But for the emergency in too many of us think of it as a we can body of doctrine which the apprehe-
Can England. statesman and diplomat, and Malaya and
study, Interpret, øven amend, or, Today the Anglican church In many cases for the pali- stons felt here, the British in other words, something on would gladly sell it outright for which we can work. It will regain | £1,000. The most they make tical reformer too. One hears soldier would by now have its enclent power only when we out of its freehold is £50 per a lot about youth in these almost vanished from the realise that it means the accept- year. times. Youth movements whole of Asia. Not even the ance of Someone Whe, will work From the air the islands off have spread all over the Itoman soldier in his palmtest in vs. To believe that "God's in Grenada and the Grenadines look world, sometimes to good pur- days ever stood as a symbol His heaven" is to be comforted. like Capri and the small islands pose and sometimes to ill. But of law, order, and discipline To have God dwelling in us is to off the Sorrento Peninsula.
Most of them are deserted, but here and there a stone house with no single instrument has been over so vast an area of the so fruitful in this respect as world, stretching all the way
to
the soldier. He has taught
from London to Shanghat
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Christianity is not an influence, a mood, a tendency passed from man to man. It begins in any man only when he accepts God as the King and Ruler of his inmost life in the Person of the Holy Ghost. If the Christian religion seems weak today, it is largely because
be empowered,
Push button
the whole world to play his and at one time even to Rodney Campbell has dis-
Yokohama. He has made history, and is in turn direct-
Holiday islands
Green Island and Sand Is- land, not far from Grenada's' airport, are both holiday islands owned by two well-known local families. between £5,000 and £0,000-to-
day.
They are each worth
sandy beaches and gally flowering
trees, calls the traveller with all the enticement that the Sirens own healthy games, and giver
covered a Chicago-made elec- used when they sang to Ulyssar. to innumerable millions of
trle organ which anyone can in shape the lands vary. boys and young men an in- ed by history. Everybody, learn to play with two finger, Some rise from the blue Atlantic
like
the single hump or La camel terest they never knew before and the Indian people not in half an hour.
another looks like a tiger skin The te
technique, "purely and with paws outstretched, No place is more, notably a least, understood the drama
Glover Island, only a few mileh witness to this than Hong of it when the last British simply, is button-pushing..
The organ will cost less than frum St. George's was used up Kong. There are many here battalion "marched out of £300, and free, gifts are 65 abest to 30 years ago as a whaling
'out who can remember, wher India. But long before that music arrangements laid
came down in herds for a winter Soccer, for instance, was con- historic, event the British; not in dve-line pattern, but in a station. Every winter whales crillan to the Grenadines The
.fined to the Services and the. had trained a great army.inion-key? Jingram. 1 row of industry; inight ¦ still be thriving
Qu pressing one, of the
European civilian Club. They their own image, for the res- buttons a cherd la adunded. This but for one curiotis fack had no stands for spectators: ponsibilities, they shouldered the job assigned to the letthe bodies of the whales, WATO they didn't need them. A few so long have to be taken and hand, in the half-hour Jason, ihrown back into the son after The Index Anger of the right the inaiden, had been removed. foreigners standing along the discharged by others if line represented the only pub civilisation is to be preserved. hand is called on to pick but the toolio of the large number, af main theme of the melody, while sharks which frequented Glover lic interest All that way Few should know better than the left hand works out comeland Waters as result, the changed after the first World the cluzen of Hong Kong plicetod chord structures on the carcasses flooted out to sank and War, when Chinese and Arabs how real are the
And just to take it easier, they Czech an Koreani, Argent hav for gratitude that
only have 13 keys on the Dinnữ, only's two Intan and Malay took
Variety of sport, and to Soccer
nds we
the
·whalos" coming from LiaNort
neing them, changed their course and swato away.
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