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ange: "THE MATING OF MILLIE”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948.

They live on a shilling a week in the Gorbals of the Empire

FAT Jamaican rocks down the street. On her head is a great pile of bananas and limes with two struggling hens on top of all-a monstrous parody of all Carmen: Mirandas. A vast new American saloon swerves round her, hooting like an outraged organ.

From the shade of a doorway come the beggars, gaunt and belligerent. "I beg you a two pence, air. I beg you a money hit, afr."

On lovely Montego Bay the hotels prepare for the

tourist harvest; down in JAMES CAMERON

Kingston the crowds scramble to see the tat- tered corpse of a focul murderer, newly shot by the police.

The calypso. men sing their endless songs of love and poll tics and the fear of poverty. "Lawd, what a night, not a bite, what a Saturday night!"

Jamaica has it all, the beauty and the pathos, Scratch an Islandi Paradise and you find a tropical slum. Both terms are equally

today. platitudinous The sun beats down impartially on the charm and the wretched

ness.

Dreary record

of facts

arc

reports from Kingston, Jamaica

export. Then ten years ago Panama disease came and rotted the plants, and all the selence in the world has failed to dis- cover how to get the infection out of the soll.

They have introduced a re- sistant variety of banana called Lacaton, but it doesn't travel well. The growers want a long- term guarantee for its sale. Back home in Covent Garden dealers are shy of a fruit that drops from the stem in the ripening sheds,

All through the war, when transport was impossible, the banana industry was carried by Britain, who bought the crop at 48. a stem and sold it locally for Gd., or left it to rot.

Sugar is Again Her Life

.

"I am master always," he told me. "1" sweep the country, whether I even try or not"--which may well yet be true.

Arvinst Bustamante Normou marínlév, Socialist leader of the filodes Teople's National Party, scholar and K.C., a man of charm, must fight glamour with argument. an awkward nssignment.

Sooter or later, one would say, the situation is almost bound to boil over again somehow. Jamaica's population alone will soon drive her over her resources. Right now there are people-plenty of them-living on less than n shilling a week.

"

Yet in all the time I have been here I cannot recall one single anti- It is evident that British remark. the average Jamaican wants to slay a British citizen-but an honnurable one, not an object of charity and handouts, nor a creature of neglect.

Cummings

"NO CALL FOR ME. YET ?"

William

brief-canes

оп

ITII their

tucked underneath their arma, black hats, their balding heads, the M.P.8 were marching back into West- minster, pausing slightly before the bobby at the gate to get the salute an elected representative A messenger was going round the considers his privilege.

offices calling the Government Ministers to a Sunday night Cabinet meeting, when the King's Specchi was to be whipped into

And

some sort

So now it is sugar, frozen out of shape. down in Chancery-lane a

awny

THIS PACE EVERY

| MONDAY

Hickey

Something borrowed...

EVERYONE know,' he m pe'er cast a clout til May be out, bat on when to resume the rast clout the rhymeters are slient. The Lancet suggesta :-

Don the woolly smock As soon as it be Oc. When chestnut traj do fatt Cotton ain't no use at all, Car won't start in the morn.

ung, Shepherd's warning,

Can you think of any more?

297 13

They say: "Many people lot us clown. But it would cost too much fo te them to cour. We boo defaulters, not in get money, but to

let the friends so what type

they are."

So they are pushing fugale for legal recognition for betting. Sald ⚫ one bookmaker: "Bloodstock busi- ness is classed by the Government ́as essential, and breedors say they couldn't exist without the money stimulus from gambling. “So why can't the Government, pratig?!!

THIS traipsing around the colonies is dispiriting work. The guide book's glorious

Big business has a. abort technicover always seems to

of memory, and the little settler open on a dreary record melancholy facts, just as my only knows that bananas used comfortable and costly hotel to make him a living and now opens on a squalid infestation do not... of mean streets, haunt of the homeless and the hungry, the beggar and the sneak-thief, a sort of Caribbean Gorhals.

between the wara, that

mixed bag of dukes and duchesses bags The cobalt sea and the deli-

ceremonial the once agnir is Jamaica's life. were digging into mothproof nil cate palms

stored travelogues claim for them. The rippling canefields should and bringing out hired

since Princess Elizabeth's Nothing is rationed, and the produce 20,000 tons. this year robes (10 guineas a time)

a huge increase--and Britain wedding. best rum in the world-or so,

It was the week-end before the of Parliament, they say is ba. 20. a quart. Will take all Jamaica can grow

and the rulers of the people were And unemployment is so ex- at £20 a ton (it was £8 in full-dress opening

coming in early, to mug up another tensive that it is impossible to 1931).

But last year Britain paid session of dialectical and indigestive get an accurate figure. Prices are high and wages are low in far more or Cuban sugar than argument.

And Jamaica, a land of all the usual tropical for Jamaican. curses: malaria and hookworm, well aware that Britain is now paying the same price but in tuberculosis and illiteracy.

The West Indies claim to be, dollars for Cuban sugar, wants of all parts of the Empire, the a premium: she has a pretty

stiff dollar deficit herself, any-body most misunderstood and neglec- ted, and Jamaica claims to be way.

The only answer is to grow the stepchild even there.

Some things are sad-the-more sugar. The West Indies official, "practically

loud with the groans-of-the-

things have been owl, and like the owl

men, big-theatre

They want to collapse of the banana trade, produce about a quarter of ber looks like a slightly

musical shows, in spite the overworking of the soil Britain's sugar needs. The mostly at night."

As for the women: "The clothes put on

But sweating

costs.

they the British Electricity. Authority's the and

lack and some are plainly shocking mills grind,

of attention the of stratospheric

the shows and they first new power station, which the the non-existence of any na- JamalcanWorks in the cone-female members give to their faces can't find

can't And British stars to put in King, opened at Kingston recently for fields for Ave bob a day, five give me the creeps." tional social service, example.

It is a strange thing to find in a community of a million and a quarter souls no such thing as old-age pensions or unemploy ment relief.

the

+

months a year. And sugar means rum...

All through the war the bonded warehouses were bursting with nc- cumulated rum ill. Britain agreed to import some.

No Concession

In Gladstone's day and com-

of the moment, what a change you

film "Quartet," based on four of his short stories.

Mugham, who likes even his friends to call him "Sir," winepd

tant director slapped him

Somerset."

the

you look at pictures of M. P.s about four times a day as the ass15- are them with the political vianges chou, con sald: "lave a cuppa

arid of smug

round-faced will see. We are being ruled by a Uttle men. In the nineties the hair was long and the features leonine.

Now, in the words of a House every mem-

•

a parlour

over-fed

HARRY LAUDER, ni too, enthusiastic about these stories

doesn't seem very that

Danny Kaye is going to star, a Blm of his lc, T've never seen. Kayo, and I don't know anything. about him," he sayMy adawer to whether I would like him to play no in nim is simple-nae/com-

they hoot IN Shaftesbury Avenue the air is ment"

You game. that a hostess is

them.

STRANGE happening at

Conctele and, tarmac roads were laid Jack Hylton advertised for weeks over the royal route, parts must for a handsome young tehor for his be torn up shortly. to, lay under- forthcoming "High Button Shoes," ground mains,...

It was a and tested every comer.

Turbine covers were polisher golden (£100 a week plus) chance.

ap- they sparkle; but they will have to for

on unknown, but not an

uch be removed for the turbine to be up enough

Workmen's sanitary worked on. bill. manliness and voice to All the

Voicerican could. · · ·

quarters (cost £400) were de- SOME MPs have been playing plicant could conjure It is disagreeable to see about

Perhaps an American For Rum

Het mallshed to make room for a lawn men get Froducers Bay chorus

Now half the island's child, popula-

scaffolding DUM is a by-product of sugar; you have to imgina

Tussle Matthews

was brought tion unable to go to school be- Ru

cannot increase sugar, without inviting the whole of the Cabinet.

the guests. though there was (who

got their diplomas in the cause they do not possess the increasing rim, Sugar is, subsidisen i down for a country week-end. The seedier every day, and girls like and a mario make stands for

come around scaffolding on the site. elothes in which to go. It is by run. But rum geta no sort of fame is to decide which Ministers Anna Neagle and Jessle

way, chorus) Just don't I would work it out this

And when Bernard and any more. melancholy to find hospitals so Excise concession in England, the must be put in separate bedrooms.

There was one lucky workm nor even Delfont asked Noel Coward if he congested they have sometimes duty is fabulbus the bottle you pay You wouldn't let Shinwell

365 for at home is only is. here. Gaitskell bunk together,

WRE bricklayer Tom Gibbs, Ho They could revive "Bitter Sweet," Cow.rt on the stand with the royal party. bathroom. Jaranic had three in a bed.

a new land, com share the same.

"I'd revive it myself, it sinco replied:

of the works commitice. secretary not been speaking

Mo Gibbs has another distinction. It is disturbing to realise munity based on no tradition, nor have

Manny's old only I could and the cast." that theft of growing crops for heritage of culture, inhabited for the Gaitskell took over food is so widespread that most part by people only a hundred job of Minister of Fuel

Bevin a

they now call those site bo is one of the very low Jamaica has a special archaic years from slavery. name for the offerice: It is usable and needs about £15 in Dalton up at the lodge. Hugh large American cars Dollar Grins known to his workmales ns. a. Com- Yot the land, is tired. Jamaica's west wing, you had better put Mr. THEY tell me. in Denmark Out of 1,000 men employed on, the

polley, and might be Smiles," called "praedial larceny," and it acre spent on its reconstitution and doesn't like the way Ernest runs British cars are known as "Sterling munist. rates a fogging.

development

The British grant of

of £240,000 relied upon to spoil the week-end needs relatorcentent from within by saying so. You had better keep Jamaica itself. Nothing comes. Yet a certain Junior Minister out of Jamaica. made the way of Sir Stafford Cripps since in

he marle the remark: "Isn't it about £50,000,000 out of bananas. Where he Cripps let up on her

Cripps-for-Premier, Movement?"

Banana trade destroyed

were inhabited by people.

oll

would imagine

are not as you

our foreign

in the

bookmakern where

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gather

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NTD STAFFORD CRIPES, UD-

JAMAICA, either in its over- has, it

Nye Bevan and Herbert Morri-ON the first-cinas buffet cars wittingly summed-up tree- crowded streets or its then quit the burning currency B would have them down the boys are looking ghim. Another don under Socialism Whed he com- lovely, eroding hillsides, is "of Jamaica's local politics. Jamaica on separate week-ends.

of them lost case in which he plained in one of his speeches that monument to a system that has probably the most irrational and

ellent pleaded the Gaming Art.

My view

is that the Britised but de planned. And female friend summed-up her sex winlithe lan't over-fond of a certain. statant director at Gainsborough people must be pretty honest, since remark: "You can tell a woman'sTM He was there frequently so few citizens plead likewise, The getting on when people Studios.

ish' to her age."), misi web plaus to superintend production of the bookmakers disagree.

forgotitoo long that its colonies crackpot politics in the Eleveral }}} #2 · SOMERSET · MAUGHA ed a client for: unpaid bets. The Voluntary: snvinte-have: not Work-

speaking world. Its finit It was nobody's fault that Election held under universal adult suffrage put in the Jamaica Labour the banana business wont bust Party led by that well known fan- It used to be half Jamaica's /tastic, Alexander Bustamante

NANCY

Putting Up a Front and the

THAT POOR:

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