Im search of food many shops have been ransacked again and again, and not only by <oldiers. Stocks of rice and flour have almost, if not altogether, been exhausted, and if relief by the importation of further stocks is not quickly forthcoming, an extremely serious situa tion must be created.
The foreign community is said to have a certain stock of tinned foods, 1g utilized during th isis, but the impossibility of procuring fresh vegetables is a very serious matter and efforts to obtain supplies from down river are being made.
If these reports are substantially true of the present state of affairs in Hankow, and there is no reason to doubt that they are, the glowing account of what had been achieved in Hankow under Chinese direction of the Council communicated to a Hongkong contemporary recently reads' extraordinarily Tike a foley tale, FINANCIAL MATTERS OF;
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