A small shoe store was deserted but for the staff when visited by the
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North-China Daily News"
5 "We have had no new repre consignment of shoes in for well over two months," explained the proprietor. "The last batch of shoes arrived off Shanghai on August 13. "We could not get it up here, and had to ship it down to Hongkong. I have found that the business has fluctuated according to the various local incidents. Each serious in-4 cident has caused a drop of about 90 per cent. and during normal periods the loss has been about 50 per cent The owner of this store move down there if the present round at p IN Hongkong for another place. e shal rouble does not very soon clear up."
People cannot even afford to have their photographs taken these days it takes pretty hard times to
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