Now that Hongkong rice bought by Settlement authorities is pouring in to offset efforts made by profiteers ease their prices, the questi tributing the cheap grain has become so serious that Chinese circles and press are beginning 10 worry about the official method of distribution, it being contended that the limited quantity of the ürst shipment [of the Hongkong rice cannot satisfy all It is suggested in the press, therefore, that the first shipment should be distributed to the poor alone, for other the grain will soon be bought by the rich and well-to-do; leaving no more r people, since; t is a case first served.
It is stated that consumption of the cheap grain is greater than its arrival, profiteers can ssu uily. fu reports hed by leading Chinese the therefore, it is said that the authorities f both foreign areas here may again a new official price for all kinds of rice sold here. The price will be $110 per picul, it It is also reported that, see-e situation in Shanghai has improved, rice merchants in rice-producing centres have also decreased prices. against 400 in January, 1937, while next year the number would be increased to 5000 men, The same activity. he continued, could be observed in the munitions industry. which had turned out scores of millions of gun bullets and thousands and thousands of artillery and air bombs for immediate use. Nevertheless. he stressed the necessity of doubling and redoubling these stocks.
It-General Berenschot? concluded with an appeal to his listeners to tinue their task for the protection of the Netherlands East Indies aga foreign ion and to reinforce the link formed by the East Indies
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