170,000 Unemployed: Measures of Emergency Relief: Rice Fortunately Cheap Canton, Nov. 24.
Since the fighting and incendiary ism of October 15 the number of unemployed in this city is stated to. be 170,000 persons.
To relieve distress a committee of Canton, Hongkong and 'Macao Chinese is' opening a rice dep3t, to sell rice at cost price, while the Red mittee of Reconstruction is also ing subscription lists to raise fonds. "This latter committee assures those who contribute that heavy cotton coats or rice will to, supply the Hunanese or Yunnanese. troops.
Fortunately very favourable reports are being. received from the Fice growing districts where the harvest is now in progress. average crop this autumn is said to be over five piculs of paddy per mow. The finest rice now only costs $10.50, local currency, per. picul, while the ordinary grade is only $9.15 and the rough $7.80 in Canton Itself." In the vice-growing centres Drices are about 60 cents lower 'Two rice junks bound from Hongkong to Canton were seized by the "Reda" at the Bocca Tigris forts the night of November 18. Their cargo, consisting of 4,700 sacks of! rice worth more than' $50,000, was confiscated. The consignees "have lodged a complaint at the "Red' headquarters.
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