The prices of clothing, foodstutts and other daily necessities continue to rise, while there is no sign of any increase in waxes or salaries to compensate for the increased cost of iving. Ami cafes and restaurants are reising their prices, the popular Topanese sake having' gone up 10 per cent. owing to the imported price from Japan having been raised ¥. 4.50 The Changchun "Shinkyo says that although sake con hardly be called a necessity, it points out, and with some reason, that "there are not a few people arleng the poorly-pald who would be more affected By the rise of sake than anything else because they are the very people who take up drinking to kilt the pressing melancholia in these difficult time Commencing to-morrow the new' agreement between the Manchurian Telephone Company and the Seishin Post Office will come into force, and this will enable conversations to be held with the Korean seaport from any town in Manchoukuo where there a telephone station. 'This will be 'a great convenience to merchants who are shipping goods vid Seishin, or are Fecelving goods through that port, specially in the matter' of beans ex: port. The feo for three minutes does not in any ease exceed Y. 3.
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