BRITAIN’S STANDARD
NO WORK AND FORCED TO LI VI IN HUTS IN MALAYA.
Depression in the rubber and tin industries of the Straits Settlements has resulted in hundreds of Englishmen being thrown out of employment. Many rubber estates and tin mines are closing. Coolie laborers are leaving the country in great numbers for India and China. Returns show that 23.000 Indians have left- recently. There is no official relief of any kind in Malaya, but the Governmentis establishing three military volunteer camps in which destitute whites may obtain a temporary respite by enlisting. It is impossible to estimate the number of Britons who have recently sailed for England, but many of those remaining are nearly destitute. Their homes are native hotels and huts in Penang, . I.poh, .Kawnla-Lanipnr and Singapore... , The Government of the Straits Settlements has appointed a committee to seek means of relieving distress among the white population.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 11
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149BRITAIN’S STANDARD Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 11
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