According to Chinese papers here yesterday the Municipal government of Nanking. are attempting to establish a foreign rice public sale committee, and a meeting of a rice body has been convened in Hangchow where rice merchants are pondering ihe best means to overcome the rice situation, which is assuming serious proportions. It was decided to urge all districts to establish their own rice merchants' guilds and to petition the Nanking executive yuan to set up a branch of the rice control committee of Nanking in occupied portions of Chekiang where the rice situation is algo reported to be acute.
The rice shortage in occupied Chekiang has dashed the hopes of local rice bodies of being able to replenish dwindling local stocks of domestic rice from these sources.
Meanwhile officials of the Municipal Council have had. several informal discussions with local Japanese military officials directly and otherwise, and urged them to ce-operate in allowing the free flow of domestic rice into Shanghai to relief the situation here.
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