The Government is very anxious that the eta be received by the rest Jof the people in a proper manner. For one thing, the authorities do not want between two and three millions to form a festering canker Jof discontent in-the body politic the nation. For another, there are reports that the Bolsheviks and the. radical elements are trying to make capital out of the woes of the ott The: problem of the eta, how.
not one that legislation alone Their plight is one of the pitiful results to be met with. in the East when religion has been distorted by a corrupt priesthood. The leaders of the present moves' ment to: remove the iron laws of caste: which endeavour to prevent the eta rising out of the status in-{to which they have been born are not over-optimistic. They fully realize that prejudices, such as these, die hard in the East, expec judices that through the centuries.
They ac-Jcordingly propose to go to work by. raising the economic status of the eta, rather than risk defeat by attempting to deal with this problem on the social play China's Food the price of that cereal an strikes for wage increases form the subject of searching investiga-|Ci tion on the part of the Japanes press. In an article I sent you recently and printed in the "North-China Daily News" on July 3, 1 pointed out that the price of rice fs soaring here, too, and that there rear distress already, Japan is naturally vitally interested in the food situation of China boom this matter at least, Japan is cor sider ately dependent' on China and roaring prices there or dimi of the supply for export would really rave consequences on the regulation of Japan's China, Japanese ough still an a tion, is becoming, grower of rice., The increase jon, the" concentration lands are meld responsible for this. The growing of cotton, sesame, tobacco and sugar-cane, the Japanese say, is supplanting the rice indus try; while, in addition, the Chinese have again begun cul ting the! poppy. This tendency and the ceaseless civil disturbances are mainly answerable for the rice riots.
"When Japan and patched expeditionary forces to Siberia," says the "Osaka Mai chi." powerful daily newspaper in Japan's commercial metropolis, "great quantities of rice were purjehased in the markets along the lower reaches of the Yangtse. As 8 consequence, the price of rice {to twice that of pre extensive rice i At present the trouble is limited to Shanghai and the adjoining regions, al quandary." Operatives If, however, it spreads, Japan will
in factories under Japanese management will agitate for higher wages, while The Three Eastern Provin will surely proclaim a ban on the expert of cereals, thereby greatly disorganizing the regulation of the food supply in Japan itself."
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