Alleged Foreign Dealings in Rice: Demands by Unions The Bureau of Social Affairs of the Municipality of Greater Shang. hai have been petitioned by the Shanghai District Kuomintang, 6th branch, to use their influence to investigate alleged large sales of to foreign merchants, which have, according to Chinese reports, been the cause of a sharp jump in the price of that commodity, of $3 in as many days. Rice of the best quality now costs $14 per picul.
Ten thousand piculs of rice hav recently been changed from Chinese godowns to foreign godowns, says the Kuomintang, and it is suspected that much of it will be "smuggled" away to Japan. Native rice merchants are also accused of hoarding grain in secret godowns in the native city. Punishment for any so doing is demanded.
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