PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN ETHIOPIA
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 3.
After nearly two years of Italian occupation, exports of coffee, hides and skins, which in 1934 formed ninetenths of the total of Abyssinian exports, worth £1,000,000, are virtually at a standstill, reports the Djibouti correspondent of “The Times.” The natives persist in passive resistance. Miles of coffee plantations and other agricultural lands re-
main fallow, and it will be years before cotton and other products can be grown in exportable quan-
tities. Imports have increased enormously. ’ Attempts to regulate the cost of living have failed, and it has now risen several hundred per cent. The war did not ravish the country, but Italy, since the war, seems to have made nothing more certain than a dearth in production. The situation seems to call for sweeping changes in the administration’s native and economic policies, failing which' the whole enterprise may be in jeopardy.
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 5
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