The President Pierce on Morel brought with her Shanghai's new Spanish Consul-General, Senor Don Alvaro. de Mondonaldo and Madame de. Mondonaldo, Senor Moxdonaldo's previous post was that of Ce Chinese Worried by Electric Supply Shanghai, Mar. 15.
Like the-problem of the native rice thorlage in Shanghai, the necessity of cutting electricity supply by the Shanghai Power Company is again a result of thie changed situation and in order to solve the problem. the Settlement authorities will have to negotiate with the Javanese so that coal from North China can be trans verted to this city without interven tion. This is the consensus of opin. fon among the Chinese as indicated {in the Chinese press, which expresses concern over the official arrangement being made by a special committee.
Coal Goes to Japan Tt is asserted that the Japanese hold the key to the solution of the problem and that if the authorities carry out the provisional scheme of cutting the supply as announced recently, all factories, especially those operated by. the Chinese and British, WIN be affected seriously. Japanese factories will not be affected serious. ly. It Is explained that Japanese cotton mills and other factories here consume about half of the city's in dustrial electricity and that most of the mills operate on a half-day schedule. Quoting factory owners, the reports state that if the authorit-Jes cut the supply by over 25 per cent. then many workers will have to be thrown out of work, thus affesting peace and order, About 1, 000,000 people in Shanghai will be Aireetly or indirectly affected by th arrangements, states the "Shun Pao.
While it has been announced that the necessity of cutting the supply fof electricity is a result of a short.
of coal, Chinese industrialists hold the opinion that if the Japanese are willing to ce-operate with the Shanghai Power Company and Settlement authorities, the problem can be easily settled. It is said that before the hostilities, the Katlan Min.
Administration supplied almost all the coal needed by the Power Company here and it is even stated one report that the coal firm supplied more than the company needed. Since Japanese industrialists consume simest half of the electricity alloted fo the city's industrialists, the Jap-nese should allow more coal to come here from the coal firm in North China.
It is hinted In the report published by the "Sin Wan Pao," however, that Ht will cause some difficulties to the Japanese authorities, it being assert fed that most of the coal produced by the North China firm now has been sent {o Japan proper to meet the demand of war industries there Chinese manufacturers doing export business are said to be particularly concerned over the arrangement. Shanghai's exports will be diminish.
a result of the now arrange. ment, followed by the dismissal of many workers. Providing more food for thought for the experts invited by the Shanghat Municipal Council fo study the problem, the report urges that public safety and health must be taken into serious considera. tion. Chinese are of the opinion that the experts should not go #0 far as to cut the supply of electricity of street lights and hospitals.
Numerous salaried individuals and pleasure seekers may change. their habits of living owing to the change. i is stated.
Indleating that the Chi. ese may not oppose any curtailed supply for amusement centres oF night spots, one report says that their business may be affected. Electric lights in show.jwindows and neon light signs may' be diminished.
said that numerous firms have submitted petitions to the special committee asking for an increase of the supply. Admitting that it is a knotty problem, the reports strongly Photographs tou Joseph 10, when she arrived from the south isul=General in. Mantle, Lend-Lease Bill.
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