ABYSSINIA’S PLIGHT
ITALIAN OCCUPATION FAILURE
[by CABLE PRESS ASSX. COPY It TG TIT. ]
(Recd. January 4. 3 p.m.J LONDON. January 3
“The Times’s” Djibouti correspondent. says: After nearly two years of Italian occupation, exports of coffee, hides, and skins, which in 1934 termed nine-tenths of the total of Abyssinian exports, worth a million stei 1ing, are virtually at a standstill. The natives persist in passive resistanceMiles of coffee plantations and other agricultural land remain fallow, and it. will be years before' cotton and other products can be grown in exportable quantities. Imports have increased enormously. Attempts to regulate the cost of living failed, and it has now risen several hundred per cent. The war did not ravish the' country, hut Italian action since the war seems to have made nothing more certain than a dearth of production. The situation seems to call for sweeping changes in the administration of the native and economic policies, failing which the whole enterprise may be in jeopardy.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1938, Page 2
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