The Canton correspondent of " The South China Morning Post," writes on June 25, sayx that during the last few days the Committee of the Self-Government Association, the charitable institutions, and the various Builds have been busy holding meetings to discuss means for the relief of the poor sufferers during the recent flood, A namber of corpses were seen floating down on the and thousands of people are crying for help. The streets of Canton were flooded, some breast-high and others knee-deep. In the western suburb the people are hiring sampans plied by certain people, who charge $1 or $2 day. The police have purchased big quantities of biscuits to distribute to the poor people living in deep alleys, mho cannot come out to buy fond.
The Committee, in view of the calamity, has purchased a vast quantity of biscuits, and Chinese cakes, together with rice, for feeding the poor people, It also asked the police to collect all the scorched rice they could from the various residents for distribution, Hundreds of thousands of people were starving in many places, The Tang Wa Hospital telegraphed tothe Committee on Wednesday at 9.40 p.m. that they remitted $10,000, toget with a large quantity of rice from Hongkong. for the relief of the poor.
The Kwangehou Prefect has issued proclamation to the effect that owing to the failure of the rice crop, caused incessant rain, the rice supply will not be sufficient for the people, unless the merchants convey rice to Canton without interruption: that in such hard times merchants not allowed to store up vast quantities of Tice for speculation; that special wai-veens will be sent to investigate the rice shops, and heavy penalties will be infitted om those who are found storing rice for higher prices.
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