'The price of rice in Nanking thas soared to $940 per picul, an increase of $2 per picul, According to. investigations conducted jointly by the Police Department, 'Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, fand the Rice Merchants' Guild, only 102.000 piculs of rice are stored in the city, barely enough to feed the population for two months.
According to a Hangchow message, following the drying up of the inland waterways, communication by boat "has been suspended. As a result, over 50 vessels laden with rice have been held up at Kashing northern Chekiang. The rice mat et is already affected by this delay.
The climate in the North is most peculiar, says a Peking report. While it was extremely hot with a temperature" of 102) degrees Fahrenheit July 10 in the morning, the city of Peking was flood-in" various low-lying areas the afternoon following heavy downpours, Many dead bodies have been found floating in Chihsien and Teunhua, north-eastern Chilhi, asa result of flood and cholera.
"The "heat wave is also. sweeping over the southern and western parts of Shensi and over Hsuchow, north-fern Kiangsu, other messages state. Cholera and' other summer diseases raging in these places. More han 100 persons are reported to be
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