Beef prices at the Hongkew Market have doubled following the @osing of a score of Chinese laughter houses in Chapet and sirloin, which usually costs 30 cents Per Ib, is quoted at 60 cents, Though there is no short-ge of beef at the present time, there may well be one if the butch. ors refuse to kill and our inform. ation is that the butchers of the whole of Shanghai have threatened to join in the strike, Sheep, as well as cattle, have been held up ut pigs are coming in as usual.
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