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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY

1955.

ILLICIT DIAMOND DIGGING Canberras

A MAJOR HEADACHE

Freetown, Sierra Leone, May 18.

The early morning train from Bo, heading towards Kenema, is crowded with Africans each carrying a pick and shovel,

They are off to dig, illicitly, for diamonds. Each one hopes to make his fortune in a day.

During the last two years,; not put to the test, because of illicit diamond digging has be the

of Sterra grent length come a major headache in Siems Loone's border compared with Leone, one of the four British the all-too-few polices territories along the West Coast of Africa.

Bo is 180 miles from the city port or Freetown, It has chast roads, mud huts dad quite colony of European administras

LOTS.

011

J

SMALL GAUGE The train 2-foot 6-inch

and Range the overhanging wooden couches. with no glass in the windows, look as though they are going to fall off

some with shorts and

with only shorts and almost all walking as they walk from birth, with- out shoes, pack themselves in,

the

MONTIC

A inby squeak from the whistle and the train winds off at a steady 19 miles an hour; over rivers and through country covered with bush.

Diamonds Commercially

Chocks at the airport and the whart. are very thorough but even so some must get through. Ocensionally, there are

court cases and the penalties for merely being in possession of diamonds are particularly heavy, with a maximum of avò years imprisonment and a fine of £5,000.

But slit many diamonds get

1 across the border, probably into Liberia and French terri- tery. In the border area, there are no motorable roads, plenty of footpaths.

9.

but

It is possible, 100, and it has almost certainly happened on to land in a flat stretch of clear- ene occasion, for an aeroplane ed shrubland,

fow stay for hours, and take off again

with site 'n valuable cargo of dia- have been dar quite n

mands. But the police in" Free- town do not support the story

every Sunday,

country

in the since 1932, and a British com- that there is a regular smuggl- pany have an agreement with | The Government

ing air service,

for the ex-working

elusive digging_rights.

All went well as long as

it schedule.

10

R strict time

put

appeared that there were only Many plans have been diamonds i11 a Imited area forward to reduce illicit dia- the area the company was almond mining, which cast ready mining.

country an estimated

But then, a couple of years!

an.

ago, African digg.r.g in an- other part of the country turn ed over some moderate sized gems. The worl went round

11. it wils

before not long was in this get-rich- everyone quick game.'

HUNDREDS DIGGING

the

500.000

last year in lost taxation and

which is upsetting the tradition al farming economy.

Visit Aden

Pictured here are the Old and the New World meeting on the tarmae at RAF Khor- ... maksar, Aden, during the recent visit of Bomber Command - CanberrIJ from Bekupton (Lincolnshire, England) to the Middle East Air Force for a month's training. Here a Canberra of No, 21 Squadron is surrounded' by men of the Aden Protectorate Lovies' Camel Troop. The Levies are recruited from Western Aden Protectorate tribesmen, and serve under the RAF Regiment. Four ground servielly airmen complete the picture. Express Photo.

EXPORT SUBSIDY FOR TEA

They Live In Fear Of Extinction

Berlin, May 18." Hundreds of thousands of independent East German farmers, artisans, businessmen, factory owners and shopkeepers are again living in fear of extinction.

After years of pressure and outright persecu- tion, they were given a new lease of life in 1953 with the introduction of the "new course" policy which utilised and supported them fully to increase the production and distribution of consumer goods,

Now, after the fall of the enterprise, to give them the Soviet Frime Minister, Mir necessary raw materials, wp- Georgi Malenkov and the dis-plies, credits and training facil- carding of the consumer goods Des.

drive in the whole, satellite The better private trade world, the course appears to be accomplishes its task, the more 90% again towards

forced will it be able to pract,” he de- sovietisation of private enter= |clarent. prise.

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CHIEF THEORIST

What this will mean for Easi Germany's "little capitalista?" has now been slated bluntly by Herr Fred Oelwner, chief theorist of the Comunist party and one of its most powerful mem- bers of the Politburo,

This is a far cry from tha key note speech of Herr Oeiss.: Der at an economic conferenco in Berlin, in March, specially called to draw the lessons from econd.nic the

post-Malenkov

Soviet Union. Herr Deissner declared that, however innocuous the remaina

course

of

In the

caplaim m might seem in an economy wholly controlled by a socialist state

machine, they bore within them the seeds of trouble and upset for the

economy He that phasised capitalist enter

Herr Oelssner said that the development of the East Ger- man ecozemy had been too slow socialist

Socia among the "socialists,” COM-

OLEN Socialist production.

em".

prising the state-run enterprises in one form or another and too fast among the still made up a large section of

which last year the East German economy,

Small independent farma, zerti- to was contrary the sans shops and shop-keepers stili aims of a socialist state and constitute a "very formidable" must be changed. It was not force, he declared, and quoted enough to ensure productive ex-Lenin for saying that even pansion. It must be concmtra- these small enterprises had "a ted on the socialist aspect. tendency to produce capitalism

The "little capitalists" were and bourgeoisie inexorably, Colombo, May 18.

quick to note the contrast be- daily. hourly, fundamentally tween Premier Sir John Kotelawala today announced a new

this conclusion and the and in mas volume." calls of the new course" Stating

the bigger temporary Government export subsidy scheme to aid the tea days before the fall of Mr

enterprises, though market. The new scheme comes into effect from next Tues- Maierkov.

Just a few months ago. Pro- were also still a "considerable Dean factor," he added: Their very day's auctions and replaces the Government purchasing scheme fessor Kurt Teichmann, which has been in operation during the last three weeks.

The export duty will still

teas

One way, some authorities think, would be to give licences to Afrienn diggers and offer 1 price for clamonds brought in

all about 28 attractive as they catalogued and sold at the can get now for smuggling, their Colombo auctions at a price

per pound, but

+

OUT

that

Shed by the state machine,

of the Economic Faculty of existence constitutes a disturb Leipzig University, was able to ing element for the whole East declare in the chief Commun- German economy." Any teas unsold for want of, Premier stated that the new ist newspaper, Neues Deutsch- A table of industrial produc- remain unchanged at one rupee bids and not because of with- proposals have met withland:

tion in 1954 showed what "Every

the honest attempt

capitalists drawals will be purchased by unanimous approval.

on strength"

had i a the Government, provided they He attributed the

part of private trade to developed

single year present the

Capitalist production, had risen are not rubbishy teas.

the supply "to weakness

of the tea market improve solely to the absence of Aus working population will meet by 18 per cent against 8.2 per cent of the state-owned indus- In announcing one rupea fifty cents,

new tralia from the Colombo markets with the support of the organs try and 3 per cent of socialist the Certainly, at the moment, the

scheme, which was the result of due to overstocking.

of our democratic state." idea of trying their luck with

rective an export - sub-

He stated that a series of conferences held to-

Co-operative enterprises. Australia has been the largest

it was the a pick and shovel is very tempt-sidy to bring the

Her Gelssner said that "capit- price

up day

with

Cabinet Ministers, purchaser of medium teas and task of the chambers for in- ing to an increasingly large to one rupee, fifty cents, sub- Parliamentarians

constituted co-operatives" representing now it will not be very long dustry and commerce.

formed alist number

capitalist of people-China Mail jest to a maximum subsidy of tea planting districts, brokers, before Australia re-enters the in August 1983. for the express an important part

East Special

Germany and producers; the 'market-France-Presse.

purpose of helping private There was, for instance, a West

German grocers' buying operative

alone,

In certain areas, such as around Kenema, there may hundreds digging be

in Some marshy land.

work in gangs. whole are Some finds £3,000

diamonds,

i

athers there Orten. families at ik

can bring £2,000

overnight, But sometimes the diamonds bring trouble. Recently, a gang of three Africans were digging together when two of them became

They thought

the Suspicious.

diamond third had found a without telling them. So in a spot quiet in the forest they killed him and. sure enough. in his stomach they foune a nice sized diamond.

niew

If they had hidden the body and told his family that he hail disappeared, their crime would probably have gone undetected. Dul, perhaps. conscierige-stricken,

his mother

*

£200

they a assorted stampa. from the proceeds. She became and brought the palice Later the two men

Ail entirely ne"" Berl South Suspicious"

China Morning Port Lid, Wyndham

Street. Bangkong

Read, Kowloon,

And

Salsbury

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

CBANGTE"

Ap. 18 May, 1935

•

Damaged cargo ex Vas seated volt be surveyed by Steve Godard Douglas at Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf Gotown at 10 ami on Satur- day 21 May and Monday, 23rd May, 1955 and consutive representativeM are requested to 3-- pement during

Survey

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agents.

Australian-Orienta! Une L14. The China Navigation Co., tad.

were hanged.

The fact that it is illegal to

diamonds Prusess

does not worry anyone. There are plenty of people acting as agents who. for the 500 per cent profit in be made. are quite willing

take the risk of smuggling the diamonds out of the country.

One major channel for them

is through the Middle East to the Iron Curtain countries, al-

Jot are

though lot also going to

America.

and

50

the

The problem has worried the: Diamond Corporation, who con- trol the flow of diamonds hence their market price, much that they have had former Scotland Yard chief, Sir Percy Sillitoe, investigating the

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES smuggling privately for them.

PYRKBUS

Damaged eargo ex this vessel will be" surveyed by Messrs Paulsen & Bayes-Davy at Holt's Wharf from 10 am. on May 20 and 11. 1945, and consigners are requested to have their representatives present during the survey.

BUTTERFIELD., & SWIRE Agents.

Hongkong. May 18, 1955.

NOTICE" TO CONSIGNEES

CYCLOPS

Damaged cargo ex this vessel "will be surveyed by Menus Goddard & Douglas at Holt's Wharf from 10 am. on May 20 and, 21, 1915 and con- signees are requested have their bepresentatives present during the

mrvey.

J

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Agents.

Blogkong, May 15, 1935.

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST-HERALD Space for commercial advertising should ba booked not. Inter then noon on Wednesdays.

"MORNING "POST" "and 'the

CASH FOR CAR

Once he gets the money for his diamonds, the Afri- can spends it. Often illlter-

of ate, he is quile capable walking into the office

MANDRAKE THE

·NARDA, WHY DO YOU KEEP ASKING ME ABOUT ALEENA, WHOM I HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE I WAS A BOY IN THE |COLLEGE OF MAGIC?

CURIOSITY:

FERDINAND

of

NANCY

the nearest agent and pay- ing cash down for a Humber Super Snipe.

and

This happened one day, the new owner, who could not drive and would not be told, put his foot on the accelerator let the clutch in with a bang- and wrapped the car round. a Lrce .50 yards down the road.) Two days later, he bought an- other one.

On smaller scale, they never bus

a friend a drink. They buy him a crate of 48 bottles of beer.

For those who go digging- Arki estimates suggest that there are 20,000 at it-there is no way of mariding out the land. They go to an area in which diamonds have been found, often along

a river bed, and pick their

spot, One group may work within a few feet of the next group.

the

Some just scratch over soll, others dig down to four or five feet, sifting the soil and watching all the time for rather drill and uninteresting looking bits of lass which are, in fact, uncut diamonds.

The

who cannot keep people who their good fortune to themselves For the SOUTH CHINA when they make a find usually

get a number of

of other

Aggers CHINA MAIL, 48 hours moving close up to them. before date of publication.

Stories of how diamonds are Special.'

taken out of the country Announcementa' and Classified Advertise legion and not nearly a monta as veứmi.

curate. The police have a mum- ber of theories which they, can-

are

SPIKE IS

ALWAYS SOCKING

ME

JOHNNY HAZARD

THE LADY DESIRES THAT

NO PICTURES BE TAKEN...

AND THAT IS FINAL!

below will

fifty cents a pound,

MAGICIAN

WE WROTE FOR A FEW MONTHS-- THEN LOST TRACK COMPLETELY--

BUT YOU PROMISED TO

| MEET AGAIN IN

THIRTEEN YEARS ****ON BALO MOUNTAIN

AND HIS DOG

IS ALWAYS BEATING UP

MY DOG

shippers

--WHERE-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

NARDA.THAT WAS A EVER THAT ROMANTIC TEEN-AGE IS--THIS | PLEDGE-ALL FORGOTTEN.) YEAR-- I'LL NEVER SEE HEA

IF YOU GOONS THINK YOU CAN. GET AWAY WITH SMASHING A THREE-HUNDRED-BUCK CAMERA,

YOU'VE GOT ROCKS IN YOUR

·HEADS!

AGAIN. p*****

YES, YOU WILL, MANDRAKE THE THIRTEEN YEARS HAVE PASSED- THE TIME HAS COME TO MEET

ON BALD MOUNTAIN.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

NOW MAYBE THEY'LL

LAY OFF

BUSHMIL LET

By Frank Robbins

YOU FOOLISH PHOTOGRAPHER! DO YOU WANT YOUR HEAD TO END UP IN THE SAME SHAPE AS YOUR CAMERA?

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS" "

AND REFRIGERATORS.

*THE_JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA VARDUS "

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

which still had 126 local branches in East Germany. Artisans still had 1,800 buying.

and and supply co-operatives,

there were about 1,000 capitalist agricultural and forestry operatives.

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BIG CO-OPERATIVES

"Most of these co-opera- tives, above all the big gată, must quite definitely, be in- cluded among the capitalists and treated "necordingly in our economie polier," Herr Oeiser said. The smaller ones have the opportunity to develop into truly sociálist co-operatives.

In all, Herr Oelesner pro- posed that all smaller capitalist economic units should be "en- their

s to give up

independence.

Thanks to the existence of the workers' and farmers' state. there is a possibility of sparing the small

producers the pai

path of capitalist development and leading them directly along the path of socialist

1st develop ment," he said. He suggested that independent farm

farmers could! avoid the contradiction of a

capitalist development in socialist state by yohitary

agricultural

[union

operatives (kalchoses),

"The artisans, too, are able to the path of socialist deve-

take

lopment though co-operative

union,” he

Her remedy dealing with the bigger capital- ist units, including the "capital- ist co-operatives," was for the State to exercise more pointed- its control of licensing.

labour, materials,

distribution and finance.

"Finally, the private enter- ir Bast Germany sre priaes subjected to the influence of the socialist economy through the general distribution of goods. and the finance policy of the workers and farmers state."

The "little capitalat" in East Germany knows that this is no empty boast, and be tears that Oclases declarations have inaugurated a new, silent persecution of all those who have so far escaped soiling -- tion-Chitra Mail Special

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