'The other outstanding feature in conditions, slated the Bishop, was the enormous' rise in the cost of living, price of rice in the North and East sections of the province had risen from 8 to 12 times, it being almost impossible to buy the staple in many places, A bad harvest had gen partly to blame' for this crisis, Lack of ce-operation among the villages had also increased difeulties providing supplies, Districts with a plentiful supply of rice refused to permit any pass {0 other places without, thus causing distress, Ningpo City was rationed on rice, the allowance amounting to only one third of the normal consumption, An= other factor in the shortage was the stringent blockade of the. Chekiang, coast, The few small boats running the blockade helped tittle in relieve the situation, Bishop Curits himself ran into some bad luck while returning 10 Shanghai, He was stranded at his port of sailing for ye days, during which time he was living ina small Chinese hotel and receiving very poor meals from a Chinese restaurant, When finally he got on the boat he found himself in company with nine passengers and six stewards, all tone cabin,, Two mealt a day were served, one" at 11 o'clock and the other at 4, An allowance of bis-culls and coffee ran out after three days of the eight day voyage, The ship was finally held up for five days Woosung owing to the quarantine Fewulations, The ship came from Ningpo, where recently there was an outbreak of bubonic plague, During this plague there were 04 deaths from 94 cases, The affected district was walled in, and when. the epidemic hand, completely "burned chu Ching-lan, well known Chinese philanthropist and social worker in Shanghai died at the orphanage for refugee children Sian, capital of Shensi province on Monday morning, says a message 10 the "Sin Wan Pio." Since the outbreak of the hostilities, General Chu had been devoting himself to refugee raw
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