The rice crisis remains the same ttle change has taken place so far as prices are concerned, No new cheap rice sales bureaux were established. number of Chinese pubbs organizations have addressed letters to the Shanghai Foodstuft Maintenance Association demanding to know why, in the present critical situation, it Nas taken no steps and why nothing has peen done to remedy affairs, who Chinese press reports that 00,000 tu of rice was recently purchased by Marshal Wu Pei-fa to feed his army and say that thia is one of the causes for the high cost of the grain. piculs'a day. We give below list of the places from which ice comes, the percentage comes from them and the quality:
Zanazoh, 12 per cent, good quality, Wasih, 20) per cent, good quality." Boochdw, 8" per cent, rood quality.
L0'per ocht rood quality.
a per cei and gun ing, 84 per ocht rood, qual Who, 18 per Conty far quality Kiuidins, $1 per ein, tale quality, Changens, 20 per cent tale quality:
Rice of a second grade quality can be obtained from Saigon, Bung kok, and Rangoon, It is reported that certain foreign firms here have ordered from the. places mentioned not less than. 160,000 tons of rice for delivery to local Chinese merchants. It ix further reported, however, that. the bulk of this' rice has already been resold to merchants in other parts of China.
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