The prospects of food business: were not very bright when this week started, for at this time of the year money always is ight and remains so until after the Autumn settlement, but the state fof stocks and other factors did offer a little cause for hope for some improvement. Then came the collapse of four Chinese banks and fon top of that the Kiangsu-Chekiang quarrel reached an acute stage, with the result that there was not a dealer anywhere who was not in a state of financial Cunk and all the markets were flat throughout the week. Nor is there much prospect of a change for the holiday, the fact that better until after the autumn
yesterday's news was to the effect that a settlement hail been arrived at regarding the affairs of the banks, and that the war scare again had died.
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