Several branches of the First Special District Citizens Federation have jointly sent a petition to the federation, which is a powerful Chinese civilian organization here, asking that the authorities of the foreign areas here be petitioned for establishing granaries for storing rice against lean da:
The petition first expresses the seriousness of the rice shortage and its resultant increase of prices but admits the fact that now as a result of the marketing of the new rice crop and continuous arrival of rice here prices have gone down a little. Prices of the first and second grades of rice have not yet been reduced to within the officially fixed price, it is stated.
The problem has not yet been completely solved, it is pointed out, and it affects public order and safety. In order to readjust the situation at the right moment the petition urges the Federation to suggest to the authorities of both the French Concession and the Settlement that granaries be established to store rice at a time when a good rice crop is ready for the market. If and when there is a shortage of rice the rice stored in these public granaries may be distributed.
At this point, in order to emphasize the fact that the men had been caught unawares, he explained that the two men shot had been found lying on the ground without shoes or stockings. They had been asleep quite unprepared for action and the shooting had awakenedsthem, he stated. Had the men been ready for anything like what had occurred preparations would have been made. As it was, when the affray start everyone had been taken by surpris:
Mr. Ting pointed out that they did not possess any motor cycles or machine guns at the Tsao Yi Prima: School and that, in his opinion, the reports published in connection with the affair were utter fabrications Wang Ching-wei was not anti-British as the members of the Shanghai Municipal police believed. "It is not necessary for Mr. Wang to adopt an anti-British policy although the bad feeling on the part of the Shanghai Municipal police has been caused because of this belief," he ended.
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