FOOD RIOTS IN CHINA
POORER CLASSES DESPERATE (Received February 21, 10.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, February 21. Mobs in the Italian concession in Tientsin on Monday attacked flour trucks and were beaten off with clubs and fire hoses. Riots occurred in the native city on Tuesday, accompanied by rifle fire.
Rice is now 100 dollars a sack, compared with 12 dollars before the war. Shanghai’s poor are in an appalling condition—a daily average of 200 corpses is found by a benevolent society which searches the streets at dawn.
According to heavily-censored messages from North China, the poorer classes are driven to desperation by a food shortage, rising prices and depreciating currency. Food riots occurred on two days in Peking and Tientsin.
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Southland Times, Issue 24057, 22 February 1940, Page 7
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