Profteering is still going on, in Wongkong, and no suggestions of practical nature to combat It have yet come to light, Eggs, for instance, have jumped in the past cocle from 80 cents a dozen to $1.80 0 dozen. 'A number, of foreign firms here, Tocal agents for home. producers of sich things as jams and jellies, have niolifed the public that their whole tle prices. are unchanged and that no crease in the retail prices of their products' is justifiable. " Never= theless, the compradore. shops have steadily Increased belt prices bya ow cents hero and g few more cents there, and merely sratle blandly when the discrepancy is pointed out, About the only "shops to "show substantial reductions in beices are the few Japanese shops which are sill open (under the watchful eye of strong patrols of police). The proprietors of these shops are pre paring to evacuate to Japan, and while their more expensive products have been placed in Japanese-gyned godowns, their cheaper articles are ither Perishables or else are not worth the expense and trouble storing away. There have been no more cases of molestation of Japan ese, about the only people to suffer from mob anger being Chinese who have returned from abroad or have come to safely. from ports "further caders, amicers and troops, for the fretponsible statesmen of the. Far [East and for all suffering s a result fof the war."
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