Show Portugal Puts Brake on Rush Of Emigration Seek to Direct Flow of Population to Africa ca Instead of America LISBON March 22 z AP AP Portuguese guess guese emigration to Brazil Brail which threatened to 10 drain th the the- country of or orIts its man power Is being slowed up under Influence of or the tho government hero and through reports of hard hardtimes hardtimes hardtimes times resulting from the coffee coHee crisis in South America One consequence Is that the au authorities authorities au- au ore are Increasing their ef efforts d- d forts fort to divert the th outward flow of oC people to the tho Portuguese colonies of Africa where there has been an acute shortage E o of skilled labor Previous Pre Pre- Ious efforts in this direction however how hen ever er hL have havo had little effect The government had begun to have ha genuine fears that If It the exodus exodus exodus exo exo- dus rate continued for twenty five years Portugal's o of about would decrease by 20 0 per cent Official statistics for 1928 the latest complete figures showed shoed that 34 97 young Portuguese Portuguese guese Uese had left tho the country countr and that tha of ot them headed for or Brazil But it was estimated that for or a aleast at least a a. part of or 1929 1920 19 tho movement had risen to 10 a rate rato that would have taken laken men ann lall annually In Its effort to put a brake on the ru rush ruh h to Brazil the government gO of offered offered or- or ered free tree pa passage and land hand to emigrants emigrants emi emi- grants for Africa It also de declared larell a to colonial week weCk and President Carmona himself stumped slumped tho the rura rural districts exhorting the peasants either to fila stay at home or or If IC they felt Celt they must go to try tr their fortunes fortunes for for- tunes tunc in tho the colonies where golden opportunities awaited pioneers who could develop natural sources 01 or of wealth |