Bureau of Markets report that hitherto- they have used the average prices of September, 1919, as a basis in the index number of commodity prices in Shanghai. From October of that year to last July, all the monthly numbers were based upon the above prices, which were regarded as 100. Since January, 1922, although they began to use the prices of February, 1913, for making another index number, yet they did not leave out the original one entirely. During the past four years, the highest point was 119.2, according to the index
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