Canton, Aug. 28. (Despatched from Hongkong).
Last spring's excellent harvest is not likely to be repeated this year jin the northwestern districts of, Kuangtung, judging by the present Jdrought which the country is suffering from. Unless Bolshevik jigterference with rice imports in \Canton is relaxed, a rice famine is feared in Kuangtung similar to that from which Kuangsi is now suffer-jing. Latest reports from the province state that the guerrilla warfare which is going jon there makes peaceful farming an impossibility, and rice is sold jas high as $20 per picul. The People are reported to be selling their children to buy food—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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