Chinese reports reveal that cargo transportation from the interior in Chekiang and Kiangsu to Shanghai is much handicapped by the Japanese control of communications which, tum, has caused prices of imported cods from the interior to go up. Although In Shanghai the supply can mest demand, prices have been doubled, the reports state, sh anghai_has been depending on the interior for the regular supply of! rice, vegetables, fish, shrimps, ehickfens, ducks, fire-wood and' grass. Although merchants have kept thix city supplied with these things, they have suffered from the increased freight and are forced to increase their prices when marketing their foods in Shanghai.
Besides obtaining shipping permits from the Japanese, the merchants buying, things for Shanghailanders must also arm themselves with "purchase certifeates" entitling them {o buy things in the interior. - Merchants the Interior who wish to come to Shanghai to sell their goods must also have their "transportation certifeates ensued by Japanese authorities in vccupted districts, Japanese "managed transportation firms are stated to have sprung uj "tke spring bamboo shoots after Fain." They number about 20 in Shanghai and they are alleged to be offering] exceptionally high prices for their
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