Refugees

Mar. 22 The Catch Is Examined By The Refugee Fisherman:After the long haul in, the cooperative refugee fisherman cast their eyes rapidly and anxiously to see what the catch his like, Mostly it is poor, and the fish small in size. Hours Of Back-Breaking For a Few Shillings Worth Of Fish Indochina's War Refugees Scrape A Living By Cooperative News: Sad relic of the bitter struggled between communist and anti-communists in French Indochina today are the refugees who fled south of the 17th parallel at the peace, rather than live under communist rule. Thousand of refugees have found some kind of work; thousands still live on a Colombo Plan dole'. others, independent and more proud, have banded themselves into groups which have bought or made huge fishing nets from aid funds, and operates them cooperatively on the coastline around Cap St. Jacques 70 miles from Saigon, - an area once popular with the French as a Holiday resort.The fishing is poor, and enormous labour is needed even to reap a small reward. Everyone who helps pull the nets gets an equal share of the catch, either to sell or eat. Average earning amount to a few shillings. Some fishermen prefer working in pairs or parties of four, using smaller nets but getting a larger share of the proceeds. Large nets are rowed out into the bay. The smaller ones are used only closienshore. The smaller netsare often shared by several group. While one pair sells the other fishes; and then they changge over roles. In spite of their labours, the refugees are happy people. They retain a measure of independence and some of their pride and this to their race, is a great deal

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Amount Anti-communists Anxiously Average Back-breaking Banded Bitter Bought Colombo Cooperative Cooperatively Dole Earning Either Enormous Equal Everyone Examined Fled Funds Haul Helps Indochina Indochinas Labours Larger Measure Mostly Needed Nets Often Operates Pairs Parallel Prefer Proceeds Proud Pull Rapidly Rather Reap Refugee Relic Retain Reward Roles Rowed Rule Saigon Scrape Sell Sells Share Shared Shillings Smaller Spite Struggled Themselves Thousand Worth

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