Peiping, Sept. 22.
In an attempt to stabilize the prices of daily necessities in Peiping, the "Provisional Government" is reported to have decided to instruct the Peiping Municipality to purchase grain on the open market and resell it to the poor at cost price.
At the same time the Municipality will be ordered to tighten up regulations against profiteering and other illegal practices on the part of local grain merchants. several large shipments of rice and flour are known to have arrived in Peiping during the last few days, the prices of these daily necessities have kept on rising, it is stated.—Reuter.
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