All Chinese banks, including na-five banks, have re-opened for business, 'The' four Government banks and commercial banks with emees In the Central district. have establish ed temporary offices in the western The Central Bank of China came to the rescue of the shortage of ten cents or twenty cents coins by livering large quantities of these supplies to exchange centres. The shortage was reported to have been caused by certain exchange and elgat= tle shops which kept small coins for profiteering.
Trams and Buses Running Other indications of confidence, me spired by official suggestions that efforts to return to normal life be introduced as soon as possible, were een, in the operation, after several days' inactivity, of skeleton tram and Dus service. Shanghai streets which have been deserted but for thousands of pedestrians and a few rickshaws assumed a fair aspect of normality.
The Shanghai Tramways had a small number of vehicles on the sircets operating on two routes: From Bubbling Well terminus tothe Bund South End, and from Bubbling Well to Jessfeld, thus covering the main thoroughfares, and the facility "was appreciated. The trams operated between the hours of O-am. and 6 Bm, and yesterday's skeleton service will be augmented as improvement {in conditions warrant, TraMe barriers in Nanking Road, between The Bund and. Szechuen Road—covering the area onside the Palace and Cathay Hotels which was the "scene of Saturday's terrible bombing—were removed to enable trate operations.
The Bus Company also operated a skeleton service. Twelve buses wore out on Settlement roads, six on Route No, 1, Jessfield Park to the Government Ferry on the Bund, via Bubbling Well and Nanking Roads, and six on Roule No. 9, termini the same, route via Avenues Foch and Edward VIL. The bus company hopes to have a large number their fleet working on the two routes terday, although no new routes are expected to be added.
Standing by for emergency, fo evacuation or other duties, area large number of the familia yellow vehicles, Including many" doubleiteckers. The company's double-deckers and much other rollingestocke were drawn up in the Race Course Ground, near the Cricket Club, The large Chinese department stores Kept open during the mornin: and afternoon yesterday and limited Duisiness also was done by many other Chinese and foreign shops, particular food and chemist's shops, Ree Shops Re-open Forty-four Chinese rice shops in the Central and Western districts of the Soitiement and the French Concession resumed business yesterday in accordance with a decision of the Rice Trade Association, Most of the shops only had their entrance open.
As a means to check profiteering, the shop owners were ordered by the Association {0 sell the best quality Chinese rice at $15 a picul. "One customer is allowed to purchase only half a picul pending the arrival of further consignments, Tt ts estimated that the quantity of rice in Shanghai amounts to over 500,000 piculs, but arrangements have been made to bring more supplies from the interior fo Shanghai.
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