Food here is still very dear, and in the upper districts there is still a great deal of Gbstress. "But the government is now send ing up rice in cousidorablo quantities, and thee the worst featinres are being alleviated Two lautaches towing rice boats have come up from Wuchaog within the last fow days, the rice being partly sold here with ouethird off the price and partly sent up to the famine stricken hsiens. We. hear of re-hellions" at Kueichou over the Szechuan border, and further up; those of course, are "proud viola" such as we have heard of at home, or "indignation meetings" on a hi scale' 'All will be quiet again' when gets plentiful. There have been attempts, foo, one has heard, to levy blackmail when boats have been detained at the New Rapid, probably by some of the starving companies Of people who are going about. This surely should be stopped, and would be if a sufi cient force of soldiers were in evidence,
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