The Archive · 1922

Grain for Shansi

From Our Own Correspondent — Kiangchow, Shansi, Nov. 22

Grain is being released from the north and is being hastened down south to the needy districts. The officials are evidently making wise efforts to equalize the grain prices, and to alleviate conditions.

There is still no rain, and cloudless sunshine is only modified by the constant dust haze so well known in this province.

Licences for the motor-road, we hear, are to be issued at prices calculated to keep it reserved for wealthy officials and render it useless to traders.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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