The continued shortage of rice and prices are caus-from $80 to $100 per picul, and that in rice-producing Hunan.
There is nq doubt that there is lo rie in thg sey ring it ín for fear it Much rice has been sold from Hunan into both Kwangtung and much mal-Kwangsi. of while coeds one time officials sought to stabilize prices by order, which only served military cheap rice and Hor everybody obe. The situation is not easing either by the lack of spring rains. Some of the cause ate and the ponds fields have ngt yet been planted be-
for far from filled. fan Mission in Hunan heid their annual mission ing in Chenhsien in southern Hunan, May 8 to 14, The good train service makes it easy to get to that city now. The Mission has reported a good year of work. The two middle schools in which the mission has an interest, Yali and Fuhsiang, have moved to Yuanling. the Paris newspapers, not being in the grasp of the Vichy Government, have been able to publish their terrible accusations against those who are n for the present situation and against those who had the effrontery to dismiss M, Laval—Laval who represented the pledged word of French collaboration—and against Petain, established a brief reign of terror in the unoccupied zone, M. Peyrouton, a self-seeking freemason of a discredited school and a scoundrel who has participated in all the political chicaneries of the last few years, "These are the rascals of the coup d'etat of Friday. December 13 (date of Laval's expulsion from the Vichy cabinet and of his arrest). To this group Pierre-Etienne Flandin must be added—he consented to replace Laval as Foreign Minister, and posed as a supporter of collaboration with the Germans, only to ium overnight into an apostle of "watchful waiting."
"Reciprocal Sincerity"
"He has deceived German newspaper correspondents just as he deceived his own political intimates with respect to the real facts in the Laval affair, As M, Laval has stated fully twenty times, a policy of collaboration can never succeed unless it is practiced with reciprocal sincerity, This Flandin is the antithesis of sincerity.
"Laval was achieving orderly government, provisioning of the country, the return of our prisoners and a just peace when he was arrested on December 13. The French occupation of the Rhineland in 1918 was infinitely worse in abuses than has been the occupation of a part of France by the Germans in 1940-41, We would mot tolerate from the Germans the treatment that was meted out to the Rhineland by the Prench 1 "The Germans have granted us, without any changes, the local gov. ernment which existed in Paris before the war, By their moderation, they have made clear to us the way io future collaboration, They have aided us in the re-establishment of munications in the capital and in' supplying it with food; they have agreed to release hundreds of thou-ands of prisoners so that the- latter can work the land and prepare a harvest against the future,
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