A further tightening in Government control over the economic life of Chungking has occurred. The Municipal Social Affairs Bureau has issued a series of regulations, which order certain shops to continue business under any circumstances.
Approximately 466 specified shops fall under the mandatory provisions of the new regulations, including 36 foreign and Chinese restaurants, a number of stores selling Chinese and foreign medicines, and numerous general stores.
The enforcement and administration of the new law will be carried on with the ce-operation of the local trade guilds. The Bureau is also contemplating the establishment of five public markets for the sale of foodstuffs, sites for three of which have already been selected in the centre of the city.—Reuter. we are going to sit here day day and content ourselves with frying to build some protection eum around the Western Hemisphere,"
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