With the Japanese press, for censorship, patriotic and other reasons, reporting a steady series of victories in the "irresistible advance" of the Imperial forces, there is no tense, eager scanning of the latest news from the front, With price control rigorously enforced, the price of living has not advanced more than 25 per cent. since, the war began, which, all circumstances considered, is not too hard an imposition for a people engaged in war, to bear.
The Japanese are fortunate in that they enjoy food sufficiency. There has been no rationing of food, and Jrpanese observers do not expect the introduction of the "ticket system' even if the war lests for several years.
Imported luxury goods are not being replenished as existing supplies rur out, but foreign residents in Japan, though naturally affec the higher cost of living, cann seid to be suffering any serious de-
Hwaching, Tsaohang and other villages on the western outskirt s of Shanghai with armed crimes.
Following a rigid search in Hwacl hing district the Japanese located the two Chinese in an opium den.
They were? said to have confessed to numerous armed robberies.
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