Chape! and Nantao will begin selling the 20,000 bags of relief native rice priced at only $100 per zah on Tues ay, It is slated in an official announcement made by the Bureau of Social Affairs of the Greater Shang-hal. Special Municipal Government.
'The Bureau has bought this native ree for the Chinese populace in Shanghat solely for the purpose of relieving them in the face of high cost of living, it ig said. 'The cheap ice will be sold every' other three days commencing Tuesday.
In order to buy the rice "tickets" must be obtained first from the administrators appointed by the new. regime in various districts and vil-ages where the would-be purchasers live. Severe punishment is Been promised for rioters and profiteers during the distribution of the rice.
Tt is also reported by the new regime press that the Executive Yuan, at Nanking has ordered all district governments under its control to en~ courage people to eat wheat and instead of rice so as fo reduce rice consumption, Gangsters and whart thieves operating along the French Nantao Bund had found their way into the james of the panic-stricken people stolen anything they could get hold of, Many Settlement residents who went to Nantao prior to the blockade, carrying only pocket money with them, had to go hungry for more than 24 hours in most cases, and their fate was shared by many gamblers who had lost every cent in the var~ ous establishments in. the Chinese city, 'They resorted to pawning cloth-Ing and other personal belongings. bhut soon the pawnshops, closed busi ness, fearing that they might be preyed upon by gangsters and robbers, it was said. "Tt was also learned that' prices of commodities in Nantao were still very high yesterday, French Police Arrest Two Armed Robbers May 29.
Two suspected robbers were arrest ed by the French Police and. pistols were seized when detectly acting on information received from lunidentifled sources, raided the Now Toi Hotel at 491 Avenue Edward VII early yesterday morning. after have ing been told that the eriminaly were using the hotel as a meeting place.
One of the suspects way arrested at the time he was entering room 27 of the hotel. Two pistols were found hidden under the bed in the room. The other was arrested at the corner of Avenue Edward Vit and Boulevard de Montigny while wait. ing to meet his accomplice.
Taken to police headquarters, the men confessed to several crimes and old the detectives that they were going to commit on armed robbery at a Chinese pharmacy in the International Settlement when they were taken by the police, "Shun Pao" Official
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