Profiteers continue ta remain conspicuous by their absence in the area north of the reek, as. the Emergency Committee of the Japanese Residents' Corporation and the Consular Police keep a strict watch over the movement of prices, reports the "Shanghai United News."
All efforts of unscrupulous shop-Keepers to take advantage of the crisis to raise prices are being discouraged by the members of the committee and, the minions of the law who are empowered to regulate commodity prices.
The committee, the daily said, has Alstributed vast amounts of food and fuel among those courageous. Shanghaailandors, who remained "in the Hongkew area despite the hostilities.
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