In addition to rice, the prices of bronze and copper are also rising almost overnight, It is learned that hose metals are being purchased by Japanese agents in Hongkong and are. to be shipped to Japan for the manu~ facture of armaments. According to metal dealers, prices of bronze and copper have jumped up from $20 to {$20 per picul and $30 to $40 per pic) Fespectively. Wasle-iron which sold at $1, per picul is now selling at $2, fand it is stated that between 3,000 to 4.000 piculs are being exported every Gunny bags are also in good do-mand in the local market, it being $0 great that even broken' ones are bought. The price of this commodity 1s higher by 100 per cent. than one Week ago. It Is reported that Jopanete merchants have purchased an enormous quantity to be used for making sand bags, The "Hongkong police are wide-awake for the maintenance of public safely and order against the undestrable clements during the winter as cases of larceny and robbery are more often reported at this time of the: year.
Since the prohibition of gambling in Kuangtung and Canton, 0 large number of unemployed and undesir~ ables from Canton and interior dis {rlets are driven to the Colony, and it is feared that they may become eximinals by sheer force of circum-
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