There are nearly 100,000 people in Chungking needing relict this winter, according to a recent police survey. The Winter Relief Association is sending out 40 men who are to institute 'a campaign for the raising of funds, and is preparing to print 30,000, Hlckets, valued at ten cents each, for distribution. A large house is to be erected somewhere between Liang-pukow and Taichikou, and this is to be used for the distribution of rice gruel to the needy. A similar bulld-Ing 4s being erected below Hal Tang Chi by. the police and. muntelpal authorities of Chungking, and this, too, will be a rice-gruel distribution contre.
Inn keepers all over the world will be interested in the latest edict. of the Chungking police authorities. Bathrooms In hotels may no longer ding, be booked for the exclusive Use of a family, as has been the practice in the ast, The reason for this new order attributed to the fact that "such places have been misused by immoral men and women." who claimed they were members of the same family.
"The authorities In Nanking have advised the provincial government that all problems of a diplomatic: nature which may crop up in any province is to be submitted to the Central Government for consideration and treatment. Unless sanctioned by Nanking, all matters relative to. foreign Investments will be considered null and vold, The Tachuan Hotel, Japanese-owned and the scene of the Chengtu Incident, hag been repaired and was re-opened on January 10. The hotel, in its application for re-registration, declared that it would assume no responsibility for losses sustained by Its customers: fon the occasion of the incident. proclamation calling for the protection fof the hotel has been issued by the government of Szechuen. Incidentally, dances held in the Sha Li Veen Hotel, inthe same city, have aroused the ire of Gen, Liu Hsiang, as they lasted. until an early hour each morning. General Liu has issued Instructions to the local Garrison Commissioner that this "Is to be stopped—by stern, measures if necessary, Decrease in Cotton Imports Concluding on @ commercial and ancial note, the value of cotton entering Chungking last year amounted Sect ea a teating the sharp decline in weaving industry, this slump was caused by an indux of Inge quantities of piece goods, which resulted in a number of "cotton, weavers being thrown out of employ-meat, 'Chengtu and the districts surround-Ing it have been ordered to keep an eye open for, and apprehend, anyone found smuggling and hoarding copper cons on a large scale, as recent activity In this direction' has caused the value of legal tender notes,.in terms of copper coins in Chengtu, to decline. 'The Chengtu Chamber' of Commerce has suggested that a better elution would be to stop the clrculation, of the old-type coppers substituting the new legal ones, which would prevent manipulation of the market by speculators.
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