The (price of rice is still on the increase. It has now jumped to more than $11 while in normal times it costs bus $7. Evidently the profiteers have taken no notice of the appeal issued by the public and are bent on making all they gan out of their present stocks. Many efforts have been made to try to get them. to lower their prices, buri this they have fosied to do. Several cases of suicide have been reported in the Chinese press, due, it is said, to the high cost of living. Mr. Chi Yao-ling, Civil Governor of Kfangsu, has @eclared that as there has been but little rain lately it is unlikely that the prices will go down, on the contrary they are likely to go up. Governor Chi suggests that money should be put aside in case of emergency, when the fund will go towards helping the poor to buy cheaper rice.
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