The continued shortage of rice and the prevailing: high prices are_causing a lot of unrest and real suffering in various parts of Hunan, The local rice shops wers attacked recently and some rice stolen by hungry mobs there is rice now on sale but it is from $80 to $100 per picul. and that in, rice-producing Hunan.
There is no doubt that there ix considerable rice in the country but the people ce not bring it in for fear it being taken away from them. Much rice has been sold from Hunan into both Kwangtung and Kwangsi Some profiteering and much mal administration has been noted. tone time officials sought to stabilize prices by order. which only served fo give the milliary cheap rice and ith prices for everybody else.
fon is not easing either by the lack of spring rains. Some of the fields have not yet been planted because of lack of water and the ponds for irrigation are far from filled.
The Presbyterian Mission Hunan held. their annual mission meeting in Chenhsien in' southern Hunan, May & to 14. The good train service makes It easy to get to that city now. The Mission has reported a ood sear of work. The two middle Schools in which the mission has an interest, Yali_ and Fuhsiang, have moved io Yuanling.
Good Work by Hospitals The four hospitals of the mission "Chenhsien. Hengyang,. and Sianglan report a year of good service. It is dificult to carry on with alarms the order of the day and evacuation of cities {rom early mor Ing till after 3 p.m, One of the most interesting reports of the mission was that of the vocal tional project at Changsha, spinning Many people are being ise the new spinning max chine which has gradually evolved by the experiments of the Rev. A Berkil and there is great enthusiasm over the results. Schools are adopt ing the machine and sending teachers to learn the trade and then return ing to teach students, The Kwang-teh Junior middle schoo! for boys hopes to introduce it this term and Fubsiang has already an instructor tht by the Changsha Station. Foreign cotton yarn is-searce and expensive and some of this spinning is quite as good as foreign yarn. Dr. Phillip Green of Siangya Changst left for the U.S.A. recently and pected to fly frm Saokwan to Hongkong.
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