'The rotnit prices of both Chinese lee ud Sniston neo sold here have vrgistered un Increase of about 40 and an cents per picul respectively. Prires father' foodstuffs und vegetables have also gone up.
For fear that certain otoments may have taken advantage of the north. ern siluntion and slared rice and ther cereal supplies for profiteering burpases, the Bureau of Socal Affairs hhak. Taunched on investigation into the mnvikot conditions. TE necessary. 0 pile limit will be sct for foodstuffs.
The Bean and Rise Trade Associa tion andthe Ceronl Trade Association have organized & joint commit tee fo nather statistics of rice and cereal slacks and the dally consumotion in Shanghai, Means will also be devised for the control of these Mocks so that Shanghat will not be Aeprived of food supply In tse of The quantity of rice reaching here from the Interior has been decrease?
farmers have been busily occupied with work. according to a Chinese report, This is held as one of the reasons why the rice price has been According to a Chinese report, aver 0,500 bags of rice were trans-Ported "from Shanghai to the north Yecentiy. Of the number, 8.000 bags were sent to Tientsin, while the balance went to Tsingtao, In this connection, {t should be noted that rates cabled from Japan about a week ago were even higher. The water-borne rate covering tze River ports ws cents per cent, rising in the case of, warehouse to warehouse-coverage 76 cents per cent.
Japan to Tientsin and" Tsingtao, and vice versa, rates were lower, bein 10 cents per cent. water-borne. and 25 cents ver cent. warehouse to warehouse, Covernge to Honskont whether water-borne or warehouse to Warehouse was the same, wamely, 2M cents per cent.
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