FLOODS AND FRAUDS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 95, 28 April 1910, Page 5

FLOODS AND FRAUDS.

CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES IN

CHANG-SHA

OFFICIALS CREATE A "CORNER"

IN RICE,

[press association.]

SYDNEY, April 27. The Rev. Mr Cowling has received a letter from his brother, who is a missionary in China, jusipgprior to the outbreak of the troubles in Changsha. The letter stated that the outlook was bad. Floods had destroyed a great part of the rice crop. The authorities, instead of doing their work, were neglecting the administration and pocketing the money. They had also formed a "corner" in rice, and this was causing much murmuring and discontent. The soldiers were joining the trouble owing to the officials keeping back their pay.