Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1911-12-14
.Por Old China.
Charlotte Chronicle:

EOr Vlu CuiuS'
Charlotte Chronicle:
Poor old Chinal The most pop
ulous nation in the world il sore |
bsset not only with revolution
and political dissention. but fam
inc is causing great distress in
North China, whore the failure Of
the wheat crop over large dis
tricts have been followed by q
failure Of the fice crops az a re-
suit of foods in several portions
Of the Yangste valley. Similar
Similar conditions have resulted
from flood and storm damage
near Fooshow, Annoy, Swatow,
and other coast ports, aud now
it is known that there has been
a similar failure in many por-
tions OF the Kwaagtung province.
Hong Kong, which has been
the center OF distribution OF rice
for much of South China. is not
only unable to supply theincrea.
sed demand this year but faces O
serious shortage as regards it's
own population, The failure OF
the Crops in China has be en- par
slleled by a failure of the crop in
Siam. While reports from Indo.
China are generally reassuring,
there has been some trouble
with drought there and it is pos.
slble that the years output in
the country will be curtailed.
> Stocks in the Philippines are I'M.
derstood to le about the aver.
age, Hong Kong having shipped
rice to the value oI $913,615gold
during the flrst half OF the cur.
rent year as compared with ship.
; ments valued at $500. 1853 in the
same period OF 1870
The entire rice situation, how.
ever. IL serious at best. Hong
Kong's leading philanthropists
. are taking action toward buying
up a large stock oi the grain to
sell to the poor at "ost and thus
! prevent q "corner" in the sup
3 ply. Similar action il being ta'
! ken at various points in Kwan
! tang province. Nearly every pro
: vincial government in south and
coastal China has taken actor
i along similar lines tor the pro
ttction of the people.
Y The first result Of such a stu
u alton as that presented in t h I
, rice market of China is increased
q demand for American flour. Pre-
ent Indications are that the sal
r of American flour in China vii
e reach the highest point ever at
o tained, not excepting the fanin
0 year OF 1907, when imports int
r Hong Kong and China from al
= countries reached q total OF al
Is most 100000 bags. F'ou
q brokers in Hong Kong repor
70 that the Washington and Or
: gon mills have booed all the OF
b. ders they can fill between n o
r and January and that all avai
e. able freight space in steamer
Se from Puget Sound ports to tt
u far east has been taken up d,
er ring that time. The amount
le -four to be exported from t h
~ United States this year will pro
10 ably reach the record of volun
he and would il Puget Sound mil
10 and the freight lines from t h a
Ell part of the United States cou
ls' handle more business.
lls 1t is probable that consider'
III ble -four will be imported fro
'c- San Francisco and other por
O south of Puget Sound. though
q q recent years the shipments
no no this part OF the world have be
at almost entirely from the mort
to ern American ports. 1t is
10 ready known that Australia
~ ~ -four will come into the mark
be be to supply any deficit, hutto VIII
his evtent that country will be dra'
r. unon dnrinp the season ia unc,