It is to be wondered what is behind the present scare, women' by the London press, relating 0 the peril of Chinese flour. Possibly it is merely a yellow press "stunt," for the Government's statement that the quality of wheat from China was satisfactory ought, in these days of Food shortage, to have been sufficient to end such alarms. That consignments may Sbound in maggots and weevils is not, we believe, a rare occurrence for Chinese or other wheat long in travelling. while the suggestion of a doctor that many of his patents are suffering from_gastro-enteritis and dermatitis due to Chinese four will seem a little far-fetched unless it is proved that this was their sole diet. The press campalgm against the Chinese in London, when much that was unfair was whitten, seems all of a piece with this agitation.
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