60,000 Out of 165,000
Bags of Cereal Arrive; Supplies Now Adequate Sixty thousand of the 165,000 bags of rice which the Shanghai Municipal Council has purchased from the Hongkong Government have arrived and are being discharged from steamers in port, while the remainder is expected before the end of the month. according to an official communique issued by the Council yesterday.
Judging by the actual average daily consumption of rice of all grades in the Settlement and French Concession during 1940, the communique stated, it was evident that the supplies obtained from Hongkong would be adequate to meet the requirements of the community after proper distribution of the cereal had been completed.
Until the stocks of S.M.C. rice Clarence E. Gauss, newly appointed American China, arrived in s. President Garfield yesterday morning and was met by Mr. Frank P, Lockhart, U.S. Consul-General, W. A. Glassford, commander-in-chi Milton J. Helmick and Col, DeWitt ambassador with Mr, Lockhart here are sufücient to permit more or less unrestricted sales, the Council has decided that until further notice no shop shall be permitted to sell to any household. family or group more than half a zar a week of ihe Hongkong rice such sales to be made for their own consumption
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