The Archive · 1939

Rice Price Stays High Supplies Not Entering

Shanghai, Dee, 24.

The retail price of rice remained almost unchanged here yesterday, the best grade selling for about $88 a piewl, which is twice the normal price. Shipments still were not Teaching Shanghai from the produeing areas in the Lower Yangize basin, and the cheap grain promised by the Japanese army spokesman on December 12 had not yet arrived.

the industrial eld here yesterday, 80 workers at the Dah Doong Rubber Ca, Yangtszepoo, who had resumed on Friday, walled out again. The factory is situated in Meichow Road. Other establishments which fare closed because of strikes are the Chinese Aluminium Rolling Mills, Yangtszepoo (Swiss), and the Ching Textile Manufacturing Ca., Yenping Road (British). The Chinese workers at the APE. installation, Yangtsze-Poo, likewise remain on strike,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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