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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1955,
CHINA EAST GERMANS FOOL WITH Pope Blesses Cocoa Is Political
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DEATHS
Ko-Ko He Ming, aged 11, parsed
away peacefully a fun rosaclertze 313, The Peak, Hong Kong at 8am on April 14, 1035. The entire wil leave his residence at 1 p.m. an Saturday. Apri 15. 1959
and pass Wing Ting. Fokfulam Road at about 2 p.m. Interment at Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Aberdeen No towers. by request. Dona. bors to charky.
RUMJAIN-Sheik Mohamed.
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420 Hand-Picked Reds
Work Behind
Heavily Guarded Doors
Berlin, Apr. 13.
The Committee of Free Jurists, composed of former East German lawyers now fighting Com- munism from West Berlin, has been probing the secrets of the East German Government's statistical office.
on
The Committee's information, based reports from officials who have fled to the West, is usually counter-balanced several times before publication..
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The statistical office, in East, production shewing 1929 as the Berlin, pours out a voluminous base year of 100 units and 183.5 stream of figures purporting to units for 19537 What produc- show the progress of production, tion is meant? How was the productivity, and finance." Un 1929 figure
with comparable like similar Government offices 1953 when there was one Ger- in the West, however, it does many with different borders in not publish
absolute figures 1929 against a truncated Bast only percentages and indices, Germany in 1955? What do the never related to-a base figure, units signify-monetary value, stating weight, value, hours or weights or items? somus other recognisable unit of measurement,
ECONOMIC SABOTAGE,
fre-
East German courts quently sentence people · to long terms of imprisonment for divulging the kind of
absolute figures which the statistical office tries to keep The courts secret.
define this as "economie sabotage. The Free Jurists report that the statistical office
Come exploys 420 hand-picked Communist aged
party
07 years. passed away at Queen Many Hospital April 14, 1905. Funeral at Mohammed Ceme- tery, Happy Valley, at 5.30 p.m. bodiny.
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Why does Ulbricht pick 1929 as the base year for this table. The while choosing 1934-38 as basle period for a table showing agricultural
per
switches again hectare? productivity
when dealing with the turnover of consumer goods. Here his base year is 1950 and he speaks only in percentages, counting turnover in the base year 100 per cent.
ANOTHER
SWITCH
this But
F
the percentages he gives in the other all-embracing table be- cause there the year 1947 is omitted-China Mail Special
In a detailed analysis of industrial production, he is veterans who work behind doors
back to 1936 as base year. which no one may enter with- using percentages and, out specific authorisation, Its
time, monetary value, director is not allowed to pub-
he does not say how he re- lish any statistical information
lates the present cast mark without authority trom the
to the prewar Reichsmark. powerful State Planning Com-
The only
absolute production mission, which is directly configures he gives are those for trolled by the politbureau of iron ore, raw iron, steel,
and the Communist party and, the rolled steel in 1847. He makes Cabinet.
it impossible to relate these to The Free Jurists say economic statistics
are gathered first in the monthly reports of factories and farm co-operatives. The reports go to the district statistical
offices, where they are co-ordinated under various headings and passed on to the main office in East Berlin.
420 statisticians There, the make an analysis for the whole country. This is issued only in
which one single сору
goes to the State Planning Commission. The Commission alone has the right to make coples and send them with safeguards-number- ing, receipts and several coun- ter-checks-to Ministries.
While the report is
being prepared at the statistical office, all material is placed in wooden boxes which the departmental chief must look personally every night looks on while the locked boxes are taken down 10 the vaults
He
The Free Jurists say that the "nightmare of all the statisti- cians is the quarterly report because The State Planning Commission demands that this, though based the true figures, must show a basically optimistic trend. The quarterly reports are submitted to the Cabinet.
A PURPOSE
According to the Free Jurists,
every single econ- omic report ever pablished by the state has had a po litical or economic purpose. None has ever been made. purely to Inform the public of the facts.
There is a bewildering variety of base years, periods, and units "economic and statistical There is never any
in
eports on why in one case
1938
used
and in
as
war year.
the
another. 1936, is
comparative pre-
Typical of the statistical maze, devoid of facts ascertain- able
in known measure or
booked not later than weight; was an eight-hour speech by Herr Walter Ulbricht, chiet secretary of the Commun- ist Party, last year. It bristled with figures showing stupendous rises.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 14
By Air
of
the
Members
Anti- Accident World Congress, holding their meetings kut Home, were received by the Pope who
them Favo benediction,
his
Picture shows: The Presid- ent of the Congress, Struoc Mastino Del Rio, kneeling before the Pope (nearest a camera), during the benedic- tion at the Vatican. -—-- Express Photo.
FARM WORKERS MAY STRIKE
Loudon, Apr. 13. Guerilla strikes by British
Congress
PASSPORT
FORGERS
ARRESTED
-Cairo, Apr. 13.
The police authorities here to
day ounced the arrest of 12
members of an international ring. engaged in the manufacture of forged passports.
The announcement said these.
farm workers to support their passports were designed to help Philippines, Guam, Eawall, USA claim for a £7 a week minimum people residing in Egypt to
will be proposed on Saturday smuggle capital out of the coun
the National Union ofy into Switzerland.. Agricultural Workers Can- ference at Warwick.
"By Burtace
2 p.m.
Macao, 8 pm.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13 By Air
Nawali. USA, 8 am
Thailand, Burina, India, Pakistan.
The
Headache To A Premier
Acera, Apr. 13.
Cocoa is the life-blood of the Gold Coast, that oblong-shaped country on the West Coast of Africa, which is the home of nearly 5,000,000 Africans.
But if the visitor wants to see cocoa growing, he has to leave the main, shimmering tarred roads, along which cars and lorries travel as fast as their engines can race, and walk through the bush.
From the road, the countryside, usually undulating, sometimes hilly, looks green and uninhabited. There seem to be no cleared areas, just Bushes and small trees broken by very tall cottonwood trees.
But all over that countryside) acres. Very occasionally, they are smalt villages which cannot go up to 500 acres. Again, many", be seen from the road. And in of the farmDY are looked after those villages are found the by labourers and the owner will farmers and hunters, the sons only come and visià it during of many generations who have the cocon season lived in the same villages and off the same land:
KNOW BOUNDARY
Although,
to the visitor, the scenery appears quite unbroken and there are no bodges ar gates, every farme er knows to the exact tree, the boundary of his land.
QUITE ISOLATED
The labourers, and those farmers who run their own farms, often live in villages quite isolated from such things as roads, waltz and electricity.
They may have to walk four or five miles to the nearest motor road..
Cocoa grows without any help.
Their women, with old oll The only work Hee in collecting drums or petrol tins balanced the cocoa pods and taking gracefully on their heads, spend
all
of small
the beans. The cocoa tree is sparsely leafed tree growth which needs only a hot, moist climate. But it does not.
the sur Hac
is is always grown under the shade of larger trees.
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The visitor, walking down
with
hours a day going to the nearest river or stream,
When the sun sinks with the speed
an express train every evening about six o'clock, the hurricane, lamp or candle is the only Ilumination in the village. The farmer's house, oblong or paths with rotting square in
is made of ahape, REITOR vegetation underfoot and the mud or wattle, thatched humid air around, catches only tough grass or sometimes, cor- glimpses of the sun. In the rugated from forks of the branches of the When the
cocoa pods are ripe, free the yellow, oval-shaped whole families go out into the pods grow larger, until they bush to help collect them. Then are ready for picking. The main they are split open and cocca crop season is from September beans taken out and laid to ghey, sub- They are sorted, to take out any about beans, which are mouldly or have
been at
attacked by weevils and
arresta Included, the anapuncement said, a Greek The resolution to this effect Orthodox priest, who provided Brain. 8 am Egypt. Switzerland, France. Great tabled today suggested that false christening certificates, a to March and there is a
highly organised areas should Turkish businessman, and an sidiary mid-crop sERSÓN“ be selected for these strikes "at official of the Egyptian Passport June. | a vulnerable time of the year." Office who provided the neces- The great majority of cocoa
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sary exit visas,-France-Presse.»; { farms are small-one, or two
Fornces, Japan, Korea, 10a.m. Philippines, 11 am. Indo-China, 11 am.
Formosa, U.S.A., Canada, 6 pm.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT'S THE FIRST STEP TO FIND MY STOLEN PICTURES?
WEILL BAING IN THE CROOKS ONE
AT A TIME, TO TALK TO THEMI
FERDINAND
NANCY
I'LL GO HOME THROUGH THE TOUGH PART OF
TOWN
DRUG SHOP
JOHNNY HAZARD.
TWITCH DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A HEAD START ON ME van WHERE COULD HE HAVE: DISAPPEARED TO S
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ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
this
situation
San
Miguel
are then hagged into 60-lb loads, Buying is done by commer
cial
price
me
and a Government
A called the Choca Company, but Anal to be paid, is laid down each year by the Coca Market-
Board. The Board arranges shipment to the various buying countries chiefly England
the United States.
ADVANCES
150
and
zhd
So from Ashanti, miles from the coast: the richest cocoa, "growing ares in the country, from Togoland and other areas, the cocoa is taken by lorry and train to the ships. Most farmers receive advances earlier in the year against their crops, but a lot of money is still paid out during the season,
The farroar gets 72 shillings a load for his cocoa and he may pay abou: 20 shillings of this to the labourer who, on the tarm "In addition,
is allowed to live
And
cultivate small patch of land for bis family's
The world selling
cocoa is about three times the figure paid to the farmer. Part
the difference goes
to the Cocoa Marleeting Board, which a reserve
uses it to build up #gainst possible slumps in the world prize and also to finance such as research and olarships, of direct benefit to the farmers.
rest goes to the Govern merit in taxation..
Both the Government and the Marketing Board receive millions of pounds from cocoa each year.
Recently, there has been movement for an increase in the cocoa price paid to the farmer. developed into a strong opposition moverent, backed by some chiefs in Ashanti, and now bas matters other than the cocoa price in its programme.
MAJOR PROBLEM.
It presents a major pa-. litical headache for the Prime Minister, „Dr. Kwamne Nkrumah, and his Conven- Hon People's Party. The price of cocoa causes other problems. Over the border traîn British Togoland in French Togoland, the French pas twice 冠 msch a load. So cocca, carried on the heads of lang lines of Africans, guarded by tough men with guns and machetes, is taken by bush tracks over the border, at night while, often, the police have to look on, ponyerless to
prevent
shoot.:
Agam, cocos is attacked by many diseases, chief among them being
black pod
and swollen Large areas have been devastated by swollen discase, 'carried (by the mealy bug, which makes a tree fall off "year "after year
shoot,
in production and dies,
until it
By the end of this about 215,000 tona
of cocoa
1
will
have been expected by the Gold
·Ocast, Tetten
Quishlet the Afri
to
the
can who brought cocoa Gold Coast from the West Indies towards the end of the
last century, would have been amazed at the results of his small experiments, China Mal Special
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