Precautions Being Taken by Merchants' Committee Aside from taking strict measures to prevent foodstuffs from being sent {to quarters unfriendly to China, loca! food merchants have now organized an "Arrival and Consumption Committee" as a means to ensure the Tocal food supply in order to ce with the present national predict ment.
Active work has been started by the committee in making dally vestigations of the stocks held by all wholesale and relall_ provisions merchants In the elly. The present tot stock of rice in Shanghai, it is reliably Jearned. amounts 10 more than 400,000 plouts.
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