Kiangsi, May 23.
This district is passing through the greatest trouble for centuries.
rice producing district second {to none, by manipulation the prices have been raised until the last rice bought cost $28 a The usual pri price has for _many lyeers never been above $8, and on tone or two occasions when it rose to $10 there was a great outcry. Tt has been so arranged now, that the friends of people in high' positions both civil and military, can supply rice from Siam, This of course was impossible until the prices had been raised sufficiently. Te is still true what the Old Book tells us "On the side of the oppress sors there was power." I have just received a letter to-day from a town 16) li from here telling of some hundreds of people every day on the lls digging what they can get to feat, and sending a sample of a cer-kind of rocky substance, which they are using to stop the pangs of hunger. Rice there is any amount of it, but it must be kept at this high' price, for the foregoing reason.
Orders have been given that all streets must be widened to 70 ft. English measure, and that means appear enti only have not enough to do any business 'A petition was sent in the other d ing that width of 60 ft might 5 ft. more which in many cases would have been a very great help. But the answer was a. refusal. There is no further sppe must be of such a country South of Kanbsien a fairly quiet condition thanks to the [Canton troops making such a com-Pleto clearance of the Reds. We sincerely hope they will now move fon further North and continue that good work, as, so far as the mai In-the-street can tell, there has not been a very great advance in the bandit suppression further North. The reports are all very good and great. numbers are reported to have been killed but how comes it that the Reds are just about as Jnumerous and as active as ever?
That is the question which is being Jasked, and which should be answer-
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