Hongkong, Sept, 30.
Now that Hongkong is no' longer under the shadow of Japanese invasion, rich people who went Manila, Haiphong, Macao" and elsewhere are coming back to the Colony, most of them being the wives of taipans and rich Chinese oMeiais. On" the contrary, many Chinese residents are leaving for the interior. "This is due to the high cost of living following the outbreak of the European war. Imports are {neveased from 20 to. 40. per cent. Edibles such as vegetables, fresh water fish and trulls are more' expensive owing to the blockade of the Kwangtung coast and the Japanese invasion of the Chungshan area, Cantonese are returning, as they have their houses there. The popiilation in that city Is said to be about 600,000, almost one half of the nor mal figure, Like Shanghai and Hongkong, the cost of living in. Canton has "gone up considerably, but here it is worse as its currency is three and a halt times the value of the National dollar.
The Hongkong Government Is trying to check profiteering, but so far efforts were "not successful. Mer chants point out that commodity prices rose sharply during the Jast Great War owing to the dimeulty in shipping goods to the For East, The Buropean war has held up 24 Boxer students from going to Eng-and and they are waiting for {urther instructions, "It is learned that most universities in the United Kingdom are functioning as usual, hence their sailing may not be delayed much, "On the other hand, the num= ber of students in local schools i Increased enormously. This is due to the fact that several schools and s0- called universities. in Canton. meved to Hongkong following the Japanosn Nanking, Oct. 8. Gen. Toshizo Nishio, Commander-in-
Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forees to Ching, returned here at 7.30 Q'elock this evening from a visit to Shanghai. He was accompanied by several staff amicers, During his stay in the port city, Gen. Nishio called on vice-Admiral Koshiro" Oikawa, Commander-in-Chie of the Japanese Chinese Seas Fleet, and on Rear-Admiral Yoshino-Shishido, commandant of the 'Japanese Special Naval Landing Party in' Shanghai, Gen, Nishio also received reports from various Japanese Army officers in Shanghai.
Visits were paid by the Commander-in-Chief' to various Army clearing hospitals and also to the Nishi Hongwanji Temple, where the remains of many Japanese officers and men are deposited pending transportation to Japan.—Bomei,
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