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Yesterday, it was reported that the military have been mobiliaed in Jamaica as result of further disorders, The author of this article apent several months in the troubled area.

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HERE is irony in the fact that Jamaican natives have just celebrated the centenary of their emancipation from [slavery.

These labourers, as they bend beneath a kindly sun to cut the cane. with their ........gleaming. machetes, are picturesque

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who look upon Jamaica as n winter playground. But in the scrub behind the, sugar estates and banana plantations condi- tions are anything but picture-. sque. It soon becomes evident

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these blue-green hills; and that rage and cast-off clothing the garb of many.

Hongkong Telegraph. tropical or sub-tropical fruits?

IN

YOUR HOME ON OF A SMALL

DEPOSIT

the total.

MOUTRIE'S

YORK BUILDING CHATER RD.

can material power to the

Why should this poverty exist in an island where the soil is so rich that it will grow almost

The people are industrious enough. Despite their African origin and a suggestion of tro- pical languor, the labourers in the held toil from early dawn until late evening. And, as was shown during the construction

Alex Bustamante. His voipe carries like a high wind:

WHY

MEN

RIOT

And on some sugar estates I have visited these conditions are definitely bad. Some workers live in little huts which can only be described as dog-kennels.

In these wooden boxes, liable to

Naval Expansion Plans

London.

be swept away in a hurricane, WHEN the Navy Estimates live whole families. Pigs grunt

are presented in the House and root in a patch outside, the of Commons the programine of patch representing the family's shipbuilding for the ensuing 12 food supply. Many workers do will be on a bigger scale than months, beginning with April, not even possess houses, but live in gipsy fashion among the in any previous year since 1919. coconut trees. Others have sold and increase of personnel as Replacement, new construction.

IN JAMAICA

in

well as increase in estimated expenditure will all be of ab- normal dimensions.

and

Among nuval experts

in political circles alike, opinion is un- animous that the scale will be ex- ceptional. The only difference in view is in regard to the details of the programme of new construction.

The most authoritative estimates place the 1939 programme as al- most certain to provide for five new battleships, three to be laid down without delay and the offer two towards the end of the finan cial year.

QUESTION OF TONNAGE Three of these five battleships will

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 February 16, 1939

to their huts The Gold Rush

of the present work in Central When a big concern such as the roofing America, the thousands of Messrs. Tate and Lyle arrived order to pay Government taxes,

For the most part Jamaican THE French

phrase about Jamaicans employed there give in the island about a year ago embarras de richesses surely general satisfaction.

and decided to spend something labour is uncomplaining and The people possess applies to the United States in

like a million pounds buying and peaceful. The inevitable reply is that developing sugar estates, there something of that inherent regard to gold. Never before Jamaien is overcrowded. At the was a certain amount of hostility African happiness which even has the United States held so moment the inland supports a from the old planter aristocracy. the direst poverty cannot dispel. much of the world's gold. A population of about a million and Rumours that modern labour. But again, like the Africans,| week ago it amounted to as

EL quarter, Cuba, which has saving devices would be intro- they can easily be roused to a much as 56 per cent, of the been employing some thousands duced spread among the workers, passion that becomes berserk in be of 35,000 tons and two of 40,000

of Jamaican workers, is now The fact that Messrs. Tate and its rage. world's stock or three-fifths of repatriating these men, as there Lyle publicly announced

It is these passions tons, but the latter tonnage may be higher should there be any confrma- that which certain agitators in the tion of the long-current report that is no work for them in the neigh- they sought the betterment of towns are now playing upon. Japan is building up to a limit of

45,000 It so happens that this is bouring island. Haiti, too, is labour conditions did not help And it is to the towns, particu-

tons. Repercussions of other International developments will be regarded as the ratio of Ameri-banning the immigration of their initial dealings with the larly Kingston, that the unem refected in the progamune.

Jamaicans because of her own older established planters,

ployed and unemployable swarm. A minimum of ten new cruisers of poverty. And these returning

the smaller class is assured, and two world's. There is no definite Jamaicans, unemployed for the

flotas of destroyers will be in- That powerful body, the Sugar

cluded in the progamme. index of material power. But most part, add to the argument Manufacturers' Association, met-

There is no Indication that the such indexes us steel output and of those who state the island is in Kingston with representatives GRAND CHINESE NEW YEAR ATTRACTION! bank credit give the United overcrowded.

of Messrs. Tate and Lyle. The faced Alex Bustamante, a flam- marines in such comparatively large

Much may be heard of thin. Admiralty attach the same import

ance to the construction of sub- outcome of the conference was boyantly-speaking figure at most countries, ult States a three-fifths rating.

some other European But the argument is fallacious. that the wages of labourers on

countries, although there will be on There should be none of the Keen economists point cut possi- all catates were slightly raised, mass meetings of unemployed in increase with new construction, but anxiety such as seems generally bilities of development in this and Messrs. Tate and Lyle re- of him is that he desires ardently draught and high speed will be Kingston. My own impression numerous escort vessels of low to be felt in America that the island of 2,848,160 acres. There served to themselves the right to become a martyr in Jamaica, United States will be left "hold- are, for example, some 413,440 to make whatever provision for

the world's acres of swamp and marsh land the welfare of their workers Trinidad. Nightly his voice de- a. prototype of Uriah Butler in ing the bag" as

which could easily be drained they would decide upon. It was custodian of gold.

and set to cultivation.

claims through Then the body of artisans called in to Another reason is that the there are Crown lands, number the Frome estate to build cot- Kingston and carries like u high present inward movement is ing 300,000 acres. Because of tages for the workers who even-

wind into the remote country-

There artificial. In the present state continual agitation by natives tually provoked the strike which side of Jamaica.

is for some form of land settle- led to such fatal results.

something Epstein-like in his of European alarm, frightened

ment, 12,500 of these acres have

poses before the crowd, and there money holders are transferring been set aside.

It has been emphasised that it is no doubt that the crowd be their wealth into dollars, which

Land hunger is very evident in was town labourers taken to lieve in him. were available at the United

Jamaica, well as bodily. Westmoreland who provoked the An extraordinary individual, States Treasury in return for hunger; and if the island were trouble." There is the obvious a money-lender, a powerful Clydebank and the Tyne arc gold at $35 an ounce. Thus properly

workers speaker, and an incessant letter- developed it could reply another

to Labour M.P.s in half-million have been depressed for 80 writer much of America's gold hoard maintain

many years that only the intro- England and the loenl news- is refugee capital. It follows people casily.

duction of town agitators would papers. Listening to him therel that, as soon as the fears in It is the sugar and banana

plantations that provide a bitter- provoke them to revolt against is no doubt that Jamaica is an

island of despair. their present conditions. sweat atmosphere. planters have endeavoured to give their Inbourers decent living conditions. These same planters GRIN AND BEAR IT

ANOTHER'S LOVE SONG TOLD THEM THEY WERE IN LOVE!

Hol-headed young romance... turbulent as the times! Torn by misunderstanding... tonder with forgiving... enduring through the yours... like the melody that inspired it!

Irving Berlin's ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND

An American Cavalcade

with

TYRONE ALICE DON

POWER-FAYE AMECHE

and

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ETHEL MERMAN - JACK HALEY JEAN HERSHOLT. HELEN WESTLEY JOHN CARRADINE PAUL HURST WALLY VERNON RUTH TERRY"

Directed by Henry "King" -Featuring, a pageant of Irving Berlin songs including. 20 favorites of yesteryear and 2 smashhitt of tomoFTOW "HOW IT CAN BE TOLD” and “MY WALKING STICK" Darryl F. Zanuck in Charge of Production

A 20th Century-Fox Freisira

AT

SUNDAY KING'S

THE

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

Europe subside, gold will start

to flow outward, as European money holders, their fears at rest, seek to repatriate their

Several

capital for money-making use. recognise that such conditions make for contentment, even if Only with political appease-

the working wage for cutting ment can these alarms and ex-sugar cane makes for discontent, cursions on the foreign ex- changes be avoided. Sorrow for Spain

Pity the people of Spain whose war moves into a. dreadful, maybe final, resistance without hope. Pity brave men who turn at bay, battered by an over- whelming weight of arma. Pity for older men who dig feverishly the hasty trenches that will be graves to-morrow.

"

It is these planters who, after long hereditary ownership, are! recognised as the aristocracy of Jamnicn. Several of them have mixed with native blood, but that has assured their continu-i

ance:

The plantera, particularly those owning sugar estates, are among the most powerful groups in Jamaica. They have not hositated to deposo English One end only there can be, Governors who challenged their whether it comes through autocracy. On the other hand, world sudden cracking or drags on in recent years have seen

economic factors challenging Blow torture.

thoir existence-the develop- ment of sugar beet growing, world sugar quotas and general economic depression.

One end only, unless France steps in, the only Power that can change the fortune of this war in a day.

Sugar estates which received To all who fight against a tremendous. fillip during the appalling odds, to all lost causes Great War are now declining manfully defended, admiration | sadly. The labourer, for his and sorrow go out. For the hire, still receives a matter of Innocent victims of ambition and ifive, or seven shillings weekly, | hatred, they children - and the [siter, tilling his own little plot

women, the heart keer

cor three days in a des- irt to food himself and

that cane-field

•RIVATE·

·HAT'S

the streets of

By Lichty

wanted to tell, you I won't bother "tjotë:

out my

ordered.

The development of the Fleet Air- -Arm will be signalised by more new aircraft carriers, and there will

gloops be many

and other small vessels provided for in keeping with developments near and far beyond these shores.

WORK FOR CLYDE YARDS? The opinion is expressed auth- oritatively that certain shipyards on the Clyde and the Tyne as well as royal dockyards will be given work enough to tax them to their utmost expacity.

practically assured each of the contract for a battleship, and strong claims have been advanced by the Government of Northern Ireland for Belfast securing one of the major contracts,

Whatever

the Internatlones there may be in

the

situation in next month or so or as the result of the Rome conversations, the dimen- sions of the new naval provision are more likely to be increased than modified this year in accordance with the Government's, declared policy of expansion and acceleration of all branches of national defence.

Captain Shot Dead In Cabin CAPTAIN W. E. DIXON, of the London constal steamer, Surreybrook (862 tons), was found shot dead in his cabin

at when the vessel docked Fowey. Cornwall, recently.

The Polruan pilot, Henry Salt, who had boarded the Surreybrook about a mile froni Fowey Harbour to bring her fato port, was told by the captain; "I am feeling unwell. Will you bring her in without me?"

Captain Dixon then retired to hig cabin and Pot Salt brought in the vessel, size

and pa

REVÓLVER ́HEAR`BY When she had been moored. pilot and mate went to the captain's enuin and found him lying dead on the foor, A revolver whe near by.

The body has been removed to Polruan for an Inquesta

Mr. J. C.. Shaw, part owner of the Surreybrook, told the News Chronicie that Captain Dixon caino frog South. Bast London and had only, been zin tha” ship "since ¿Décember: 285721 Janvis a widow, wie

Thans has never boen aneztrouhe with nin and way cannot student

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