Prices of imported goods might soar sky-high but the Shanghai housewife may be assured that the price of eggs is likely fo remain at a reasonable eve result of the enterprise of we 2773 shipping companies in opening the hinterland around Nantungchow, on the. north bank of thë Yangtze, just arótmd the corner
ith the creation of the Chinese Woosung, so to speak. barrier at Kiangyin preventing navigation on the Yangtze, and the cessation of othét sources of supply beYond local poultry farms, the breakfast table prospects were extremely gloomy, but now hundreds of thousands of eggs from Chinese farms ich have not done a copper's worth of business for weeks are now entering Shanghai. Four sailings a week between Shanghai and Nantungchow a being made by the Indo-China Ca, and the China Navigation Ca, Ltd, in this new enterprise wil ich forms only one phase of a stout endeavour to keep commerce moving.
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