is drawing up a concrete, plan to end the rice famine and soaring prices of this commodity. For years Kwangtung had to depend on rice from Burma, Indo-China and Siam to feed the 30,000,000 people. One way io relieve the situation, according to the scheme of General Li, is to improve the output in Kwangtung by scientific means. This means that better irrigation and fertilizers will be used. while every effort will be made to ship the heavy accumulation of rice from Hunan, Kiangsi and Kwangsi to this province. In view of the unfavourable rate of exchange between Hongkong currency and the Chinese dollar, the price of imported rice is high and will-be still higher if it is subject to the usual import tariff.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.