GLOOMY OUTLOOK
ABYSSINIA'S FUTURE PROBLEMS FOR ITALIANS Tii?es Cable LONDON. Jan. 8 After nearly two years of the Italian occupation, of Abyssinia, the exports of coffee, fyides and skins, which in 1934 formed nine-tenths of the total of the country's exports, worth £1,000,000, are virtually at a standstill, reports the Jibouti correspondent, of the Times. The natives persist in .passive resistance. Miles of coffee plantations and other agricultural land remain fallow, and it will be years before cotton and other products can bo grown in exportablel quantities. The 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 Italian actiojt 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22928, 5 January 1938, Page 12
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