the Editor of the News"
Sin—In your y issue you had an article dealing w tuation in Shanghai at pi there has been no ver crease in prices and it is a factory to quote that there has been very little profiteering on the part of coal dealers, I will quot example in the increase of coal prices from last year to this. Last December I paid for anthracite $27 a ton, and I was charged only yesterday, $38 a ton for the same quality. An increase of $11. I consider that a very big increase and in view of the fact that there is no coal shortage in Shanghai I call it profiteering.
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