Show 1 CHINAS CHINA'S POOR I AS RICE IS EXPORTED I i iI I I SHANGHAI Juno June 30 O By Mail Mail- MaH I Profiteering ha haA hit the uncounted millions of Chinas China's poor and famine I threatens ns I Th There ro Is a Do rice shortage hero that has created a condition which may ho bo mildly described as ns acute It Is Is' Is really to be described on only I in the tho superlative Vall Dally Daily tho the settlements settlement's police forces orce receive word of tho tha discovery of dead dood bodies of men women women and children evident victims of or starvation tion being belm found Cound by hy roadsides where 1 the they have h been left because of families 1 I lies too stricken by poverty to pa pay for tor proper burin and trusting to the humanity of or the foreign population to conduct the accustomed rites rhea I Excessive export of ilce rice to Japan Is blamed d by the Chinese for the hunger er of the people In this country Whether this Is true or whether a n corner exists exist is what tho the ties tics are arc attempting to discover Quotations on rice rose a few da lays s I ago to the unprecedented C of ot 11 a approximately approximately 1331 pounds As a result the Chinese Chinese I authorities In the native city of Shanghai l have opened two rIco rice ex exchanges ex- ex changes where tho the food which ex- ex exchanges Is the chief sustenance of ot the nall native ve I population is being sold for 7 i a l I Similar conditions exist today tod throughout China an nn outcome of ot the tho official Investigation now I Pending may have havo a n far reaching effect on the future of tho the Chinese Chines republic |