STAGNANT TRADE
PASSIVE RESISTANCE OF ABYSSINIAN PRODUCERS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 3. The Djibouti correspondent of "The Times” reports that after nearly two years of Italian occupation, the exports of coffee, hides and skins which, in 1934, formed nine-tenths of the total Abyssinian exports, and were worth £1,000,600, are virtually at a standstill. The natives persist in passive resistance, and miles of coffee plantations and other agricultural land remain fallow. 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 have failed, and it is now risen several hundred per cent.
The war did not ravish the country, but Italian action since the war seems to have made nothing more certain than the dearth of production. The situation seems to call for sweeping changes in the administrations of the native and economic policies, failing which the whole enterprise may be placed in jeopardy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 7
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162STAGNANT TRADE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 7
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