1950-07-18 — Page 11

Malta: island of good-byes today

By C. G. Mortlock

they

although Malta is an island not only | ex-Servicemen,

tall

Bitish Foreca of war rubble, sunshine and fought for

and paid British income tax. The Malta

F British Lezlen fighting to nal this right,

They want to go

the George Cross. For the next six years at lenat, it must be a land of "good- bycs,"

In every home, round every family clrele, the questions that have to be obswered are: "Where chall we go?" "How shall we get Bhere

For Malta's particular problem is that it big ton rouny people-- and hundred thousand too waliy, Between now and 1950, one in every three people au Malin anus Ket out.

There are 312,000 prople living there now. Normally the can bo work, hatnes, and food for only 250,000-or, as its Health Minister belleves, only 206,400,

This overcrowning Krows all the time, because the Walterego in for bit families. Apart from the need to cut down the mumber of people on Malta, 8,000 would have to leave every year just to offset the birth-rate and keep the population the same.

Fewer jobs now

Nefore the wor There Svenno 200,000 people on Malia and Ney 'were able to make a living only because Britain kept a major feel there and a large

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Mallee mainly wish to go to Australia, but some are leaving for the United Kingdom, United States and Col None has been amitted to South Africa because the Malan Government

rest cutiefer Maltese na

Europeans.

a

What sort of prople are those amgrunta Uraialty men wonen with war-crushed hopes

determination

1. ખ; prorperity | for their chilchen. Listen to the story of Mucy Velin,' of togaikwn-the heaviest bomb- ed dockyard area:

**First our house was destroyed and we lave been living with mother for the last eight years. My husband was discharge from the dockyard as reduntiant flv.

other There is no months ago. Work for trained fitters, so he

Australia emigrated to

and i Victoria now working with the Stute Electrical. Corporation. We are awaiting news that he hay found accommodation for myself and the five children so that wo vists in him,"

Raphael Cabaretta, of Valetta,

hofed destroyed

establishment but his

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of artillery. infantry and other ¦ kombs. fi B now working for

corps,

better future

uncle nt the Westminster Now there are more people, itziet and will leave for Austra fewer jobs. There

only in on May 15. e told ne bathtub fleet, gigoleant army dre depots. We run the duckyerd ; the listel basines in Audoti employs more people than IRC- there are

Jew town fals

someone else maust,

war, but mung are undt greupten | Matts these days. and seekings me expected,

How are the Malten living? Hind

tion the

in

} don't g

te rick everything

prospect of hel

To maintain the soilen populasive any chiffres a better chaner,

Malta Government | There is no drawing three million pounds a year, from the War Dausage the my own bors acaln in Malta."

Australia

is today to the construction Funo from Baltain alone is lint the United State: Even this yearly sum is averspent, and 1956 the emigration dead-e

ine because, in that year this "hitty" will he emptied.

So bankruptey faces this newly self-governing colony unless there is a mass

mass exodus.

Since 1948 abnort 12,080 prople. have emigrated but, because of the birth-rate, the

population And has x Increased.

emigration is sinekening off.

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The Malta Government has ac

pays

£30 towards the And the migrants there is

Malta

ships.

was to Europeans at the end of last century-the land of hape and onporunity. But many ore emigrati to America, and the US Consulate in Valetta is granting 200 visas a month.

The crisis grows

Glanni Grech, of Sliema, sald "i am selling my business to join my brother in New York, where he has his own business, When ! am ettica I will send for my

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CONFLICTING CLAIMS TO ANTARCTICA

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For the second time with. in 18 - mantha the Soviet Government has demanded to be consulted in any future international discussions of Antarctica. It followed this with the announcement of a new Rusalen whaling and exploring expedition to the Antarctic.

Existing claims to sectors of this continent, the highest, cold- esl and eförmiest in the world, are indicated on the map. Al- most as big as the combined areas of Europe and the U.S.A. at least two-thirds of its 6,000,000 square miles of Ice-capped desert are

its main economic value lies in the Unexplored. whaling grounds. Belief that vast mineral deposits, includ- ing uranium, are to be found there has yet to be justified by research and discovery.

The most disputed sector, liee South of the "tall" of South America, where British, Chilean and Argentine claims overlap, Russia's demand. for a way in the political future of the continent is based on the enterprise of the Russlan navigator, Bellinghausen, who, some 130 years ago, circumnavigated Antarction.

'Black gold' rush and not a single saloon in sight

Trader John ruled an African tribe

By Dudley Hawkins

Mount Kenya.”

when

con-

Come along with me and of the chief. Later, they pre- meet the, Trader Horn" of sented me with the recond largest 1950-Africa's "White King" mountain in Afrien, the 17,000. -otherwise John Boyes, 80- year-old Yorkshireman who journeyed round the world before he was 20 and, once "owned" Africa's second highest mountain.

Many years afterwards, tand questions were being eldered by a special cominiasion, John Boyer's claim to the moun

ain was disallowed.

Inin

When the British administra- tion pushed slowly into the heart The Duke of Gloucester shool of the Highlands, they were sur- John's hand when he presented, prised to find a white man'as the Letters Patent whieh Taired "King of .ono of the tribes. Nairobi to city status-Orat city They were angry, 150, that this Is the Colonial Empire to be thus white pan was leading natives honoured by the King,

in battle. And John was sum- Richly, Buyes deserved the dis-moned to present himself" at the tinction. No man has done more nearest headquarters and be nr- In the development of Kenya and rested, all East Africa. And few men can look back on a life so packed with adventure.

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John "presented himself" bit ho was accompanied by 300 Kikuyu warriors in tuil warpaint, It all began when John

gwords and spears, ran carrying away from his home in Hull 07 animal-hida shields. years ago. He found the call of then the seat of Government, and

John was the seu so strong that be packed then

ostaln his few boyish belongings and accquitted without

his character: said goodbye. Ho "adventured"

Then he organised safaris into round the world under sali bo- coming more and more fascinated the remete hinterland to provide with the stories of Africate food for the gangs driving the "Dark Continent" then being ex-railway from Nairobi across the plored.

grim reaches of the Rift Valley to the sea He quit

tho .rich lands of Uganda. Africa,

"But," he anid, "almost as soon fought in the Matabele campaign, knew Dr. Jameson, of Jameson I saw more than one white mun Raid fame, and worked his way was oppressive. I got fed-up, mut at one time I felt that divilisation to Zanzibar, where he became left Nairoul to trek through the captain of Sultan of Zanzi desert country of Northern Kenya

fils adventures

only to Abyssinia. I was one of the beginning. He bankered after the first white men to reach Addis

Ahaba." "great unknown-and the

Yorkshireman now became The known" in those days was East

horse dealer. He brought back Africa, a huge area

of unex from the bleak Abyssinian high- and plored

Jungle mountain, lands horses suitable for mountain peopled by savage tribesmen and

tracks of Kenya. Tony, John ronined by elephant herds.

For more

than 300 miles he lives in retirement, still in the heart of the Kikuyo country. trekked into the unknown con-From his home at Kiambu an the 1ment until he came to the outskirts of Nairobi he can look aren where Nairobi now stands, up cach morning at the mountain then peopled only by the Wa-that was once his own. kikuyu tribe,

were

LLIS

An opportunist A great pioneer

He become

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was a

When he watched the Duke of Ever an opportunist, Jolin Gloucester hand to the Mayor of settled in the land where the Nairob! the King's Charter, he writ of Goverment did not run. thought back across the years to

the "military

the time when he made history. ganiser of the Wa-Kikuyu In For when

he first

saw Nairobi It their bloody struggles with their By GORDON YOUNG

infested by lion battleground public and private building pro- neighbours the fierce Masal, oft, and rhinoceros,

Zulu-like warriors, who, with where his Kikuyu fought bitter gramme of £30.000.000 this year. their

5. spears, were the battles with the Masai. To check as far as possible the ravening wolves of the Torontriving on milk and blood, the concrete

of East Africa.

Today it is a moder

a modern city of stock market, who saw in the ol'

eight-storey building Masai warriors were a law unto and wide streets... a city where of 蔚 boom prospeels

glorious themselves. Every tribe went in 20,000 Europeans live in penes. Premier Manning. has agreed wil free-for-all of share-pushin

fear of them...particularly the And John Boyes-ne-looking, reputable oli companies for co tended their banana trees

peace-loving Wa-Kikuyu, who upright, halo and hearty, siÐ) and boasting his rich Yorkshire on the verdant Kenya accent is in the true line of the Highlands.

great pioneers. John told me: "I decided that I would

organise the Kikuyu warriors and show them

That every Masal raid need not maan loss of cattle, ravaged crops, burnt

A tall, lanky man who has £3,500,000 a year to spend and who turns for daily the guidance in his life to

the main figure among those who rule the destinies of Western Canada's oil boom.

bearing lands. from the

agreement with the Australian) Garere, but I cannot marry and Government for assisted parsæges) mire a fanity with the cent for migrants. Each Government terutare,"

passage At present the solution of the

£ 10.

problem nowhere in sight. But the difficulty is shipping.avi with slackemm migration

Two chartered

through shipping shortage. "Ocean Victory" "Oren further increase in the popula- Trunl" cách 10 take

over tion is likely. As 1958 approaches 1.000 emigrants to Australla, but the crises grow and mass unen-

shivs no other

are available. ployment seems laevitable. There Another difficulty is that tho is general appeal free anlgration scheme for the Maltese, "Give us the ships, we Forres does not arody te Maltesel enn 1 Them.”

They find it's good to be Canadians

By Patrick Nicholson

The fishermen, lumberjacks, meNor do expect the second and miners of Newfoundland er even the third year will do so."

celebrating their birthday as Canadians.

are

first

It is just over a year since Britain's oldest colony threw nside her independence to become pari of the Dominion of Canada.

In this historie year, the hardy "Nowles" have been hit by an economic blizzard which has de- ferred some of the Joys of union,; But, snuggling beneath the com- forting shelter of their new Cana- dianism, they live learned that perhaps the greatest advantage of confederation les in escaping the disadvantages of non-confed- eration.

"The first year of confedera-

tion has not fulfilled my hopes for Newfoundland." the new pro- vince's buoyant bow-tied Premier. the. Hon. Joseph Smallwood, told

NESCAFE

Just Add Hut Water

Yan. Nesesië is made in the cupsinataachy) Add hot star hechen str. "That's all. Add DUBAI End ETTEm Ứ you kha Remember No

Punch No wa|| No: chicory! Coffes

lovers should get a tip to-day:

„4'e pronounced «Nes-cilly

Stronger faith

"However, like the vast majority of Newfoundlanders, 1 have more faith than ever in the promise of a stronger and greater Newfoundland through Thi

Bible is

He is Ernest Charles Manning who at 41 has been Premier of Alberta for seven years, ever since the death of Premier "Bible Bill"

Eberhart, whose devoted disciple he was.

A firm hand Sitting comfortably in a Par- liament in which bis followers hold 61 of the 57 seats, Premier Manning keeps a firm land on o Government which, while nomin- ally pleriged to carry out the un-

trol and fale allocation of the all-

Such precautions are widely approved, because of the for- reaching effects which the ol discoveries are expected to have en Canada and even on the world

หล as a whole.

Outstanding among these is the fact that Alberto oit will offer a now, strategically situated source for fuel to the Wester" World in the event of another war.

At present, of course, Alberta's

orthodox principich ΟΙ Social production of 130,000 barrels a

Shrew

Credit, has, in fact, neled like a day (after completion of the new.

-and-enlightened--Con-pipe-line) does not compare with

Administration. By the

outout nt Texas (251 m sheer sincerity, Premier Man- barrels a day) or of the Middla ning has won the respect of even

East (6,000,000). the most cynical

his poll-

But

Alberta's

"output will Temp tical and business

ponents,

ahead as new facilities for trans- Whatever his political cares, he port and refining become nvall- never fails once a week to travel

Abie. Proved reserves in Al- aver to Calgary, 230 miles away,

established at berta are already 15 conduct Sunday service from a billion barrels, and geologists the Prophetic Bible Institute.

bellove that n further Ave billion

'

union," he said. "We would now, but for confederation, be in the { midst of a sweeping depression

due to our difficulties in selling is heard on the radio by will be added by discoveries still

fish, pit props, iron ore, wood-pulp, and Ash olis to the soft currency arcu.

more

Instead, our people are in Irel healthier and

optimistle than ever, thanks to Canada's generous social security. Where we were alone, we now fonn the lieart of this great and growing British nation in North America, and we will go up with her."

more.

cow-

high

cropa

villages, slaughtered tribesmen.

"10 Yorkshireman. I have always been thorough. I taught the Kikuyu the clementaries of campaigning. I must have made

a

good job of it. They wate certainly pleased, with me-be- cause I was made a blood brother

We should raise twenty armoured

divisions

--now

(Continued From Page 6) Atomic uses

Though atomic bombe have their uses, they are special wea pons for special targeta, and in the end it is man and not explosives. For even machines, which win WITH

To use it in Korea would not people.

to be

only be morally and politically He is a

precise figure

T3 Canda itself the oil finds wrong, but strategic suleide, It' who, in

ե

of country

promise a substantial further would be like trying to shoot a nunchers, wears spais, likes car-raising

snipe with an elephant gun. of the niready dening, and plays the violla. standard of Hving.

He is also the man chiefly re Within four years all Canada sponable for the fact that the may become self-sufficient in oil. oilfields are being developed in a which will mean an ultimate end carefully controlled way-and

to her dollar problem. that Edmonton is the quietes,

At present Canada pays about most staid "boom town" in his-

£100,000,000 in American dollars The 350,000 inhabitants of this

tory.

for Imported oil. But production land, mostly spread out in the There's nothing like those Wes- from Alberto this year alone is 1.400 little outports' "along the tern movies. If you walk down expected to knock £33,000,000 8,000 mile rugged coastline, carn Jasper-avenue, the main street off this dollar drain. their living by exporting codfish, of this city of nearly 530,000

Fortunes made, fish oil, iron ore, and wood pro-

people, you won't find a gam- ducts.

bling den, saloon, or night club When Canada has more, dollars The world-wide depression of in

Public drinking she will be able to buy more of in sight. the tragic thirties, when nobody forbidden, there are, no Sunday

the means of good living which wanted to buy their products, cinemas. and the restaurant of the United States can supply, beat them down to their inces the main hotel closes down at 8.30 Meanwhile some individual for until their Government could no

every night.

tunes are being longer afford to pay even the pit- Some of the Lough off. tance of 30. a day in unemploy ment relief.

men

All this prospeha ráault |

The secret of victory does not lie in oblitoraling enemy cities, but in multiplying speed of movement; for as this goes up so does the striking power of the soldier until It becomes so bewildering to the less mobile sido that it takes panic and falls into rout,

Nothing should reduce mobility: everything should foster it. This is the old, old lesson the first fort- night's fighting in Korea has to teach us.

Bad policy.

now footing into the city may of good luck plus Hard enterprise

What are we doing? We are hold private bottle parties in being taken philosophically their hotel bedrooms--in, Alberta and without hysteria by Cann- till concentrating on robing

moblie legally diana na a whole and by Prea- infantry units, which are no invite a girl for a drink is

now than they tacher-Premier Manning in parti-more

the only place you can

Now another trade depression has hit them, because their, trað-- tional customers, Britain, the West Indies, and the Mediterräne- an countries, latit dollars to buy your bed-room-but mostly they cular, in his comforting phills were in 1930, and this is not their exports.

just staad each other ice-cream sophy there need be no conflicted couch. Blow softened t Only a quarter of the sealing fleet

the Labrador fishery may not be opened this summer; the mines on 'Boll Island have laid off' workers. But the blow of this year's

Bodas n the local drug stores. between spiritizal well-being and Granted that.../ General · Märtet

sniled to the icefelds this spring Minister of Mines, N."E. Tanner, from the, things of everyday: Jito} should forthwith prepare, for the i

Keeping calm To Premier Manning, whose i alsh bishop of the Mormon Church, such austerity seems 'deširable, part of the determined

a.cool

What thon should we do? You is right, as I believe he InWÓ, the Americans and the French defence of the West, 20. fully mobilised armoured, divisions.

Once this. Is deelded on the Western allion_khoult reconalder the whole of their land defences: in terms of mobility.

material success.

He explains it, thus emnat. divorce spiritual values A Fight relationship with God must preemie that with Moni SHINWELL TRIP TO PARIS

alump in exports has been softened effort which Alberta has made to „ky Canada's, social recurity mea-

keep calm. Judgment and a head in the face of its sudción aures, auch, as £6 a. weck, unce ployment pay £15 a month old wealth

Because the Government holda dee pension, 50s, a month baby bonus, and by the higher, Cana- the mineral.rights of all but ones disn scale of wages for postal; tenth of the land of Alberta, the rallway and other, Government oll finds have brought in wind lunch, by the French Prime workers and of ex Fervicemen's fall events to the state from Minister, M. Helio Plaven, when

Pales and roveities

Parie July 10. Mr. Emmanual, Shiawell, the Minister of Defence, who, vialled Parle today, was entertained t

to

If the Highly Industrialised Western, nationa ́enuriot raise and equip 20. armoured divisions, then democracy, has falled, 22:3

Must act now

taki

hos fintional, not a party, and the dichards.

no longer par cent extimated to total the new French Defence Minis matter. Let the Government

'ter, Ma Jules Mochi, was prosent. the Opposition into their condd- eppere the iden of confoderation about £3.500.000 thin vear, changeẢ Winterh. »Union (spokesmati i thee in vocres, iskales), of ones, an with Cahoda, seeing the advant-lo the trending of this money fald that Mr. Bhinwell's visit gran Me. Churchill has asked agon it hús, brought, renda Promter, dennlig, una proved ploʻtmaker preliminary arrange-966, fatwa have just talked * But Thound many “still regat just steward, laj" hassordained mente: or die rqulins, meeting of about pauta Now we munt art Mike Way Britain' Labour, governs that reveron coming, from such sathe Western Linion Free Lafoned; and act lukklysz Think, broka, Baldwin Boada, to viransitory?”

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