People were without eggs for several weeks but peasants are now coming in and selling at twelve for $1. Rice costs on the average $25 per picul No fruit is available and practically no butter. Peanuts are 80 cents per catty, and salt about 50 cents per catty. Copies of the "North-China Daily News" -have come through lately and had evidently had a "bath" en route. At this rate of living, many may be bankrupt before long. All use local wheat ground up to make bread, pen is brownish shade, but the product is quite good and edible.
Many Chinese have been able to! go to the foothills and get in their rice crops and other produce, which they have brought up here for sale. The only fear is that the remaining road out from Kuling may sooner or later be cut off and the place be isolated.
Acting on advice from higher quarters, nearly all Chinese families who came here for safety have eva-enated to Nanchang and places further inland. A few thousand of the poorer classes remain, but steps are being taken to evacuate them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.