The wastage of economic resources during the present strike is hardly calculable. The amount of tea, rice, foodstutts jand other produce of this country rotting in godowns or on wharves is enormous. Beans and groundnuts are sprouting and closing their merchandising va-The small shopkeeper who lives on the. products of the farms, on imports into Shanghai from "Amoy, Swatow, Canton, and even as close-by a port as Ningpo. is left without goods to sell while rents have to be paid
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