Wosih, June 23, The Labour Union has not. mitted its efforts to kidnap or other wise extort money from the former civil governor, Min Ping, the shoot= ing of whose guard was reported about a month ago, Three men have been arrested in connection with an attempt to extort $50,000 from this man, 'Only about 140 wounded soldiers are at present interned at Wel San Just outside the city. It was originally intended to send 2,000 soldiers hhere, but the number has so. far been thus' materially reduced, in response to an urgent telegram of protest sent to the Ministry of War by the gentry and merchants of Wusih, A military hospital, termed Hospital No, 22 has been opened to care for these soldiers.
The recent heavy rains have been. beneficial to the rice which has just, been set out, but have been harmful to the summer crop of cocoons, which will only average about 2 por cent. of the normal crop." This will be a great disappointment to. the farmers, as they had hoped to make up. to some extort for the poor spring crop. The wot weather, in Keeping the ground so. saturated, has produced a very marked int crease int hyokworm, The price of rice is still going up, is now between $19 and $20 a plout. In the case of one villa this high rice has resulted in villagers attacking two rich families in order to get the rice they had stored. They succeeded in getting about $100 worth of rice.
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