Shanghai, May 28 'Twenty-one provision. dealers and Hy' arrested In valour fined $6 by Judge Sheng in the First eitiement were each Special District Court yesterday. for refusing to attach price tags to their goods, an offence punishable in accordance with the" new regulations enforced by the Shanghai Municipal Counci requiring merchants to label their price clearly to enable customers to choose cheaper goods and prevent. profiteering.
It was revealed in court that the sentenced men retused to carty out the regulations despite repeated war ings and that while the offenders this time are small merchants and hawk: rs, the authorities may' in. future prosecute big merchants, should they make the same mistakes. This is the first time that the authorities have punished merchants violating the new Fegulations in connection with pri Second Special Court Telephone Dispute Shanghai, May 22.
'An interesting test' case in. which the disputing parties quarrelled over the right of using a telephone, which very hard to obtain these days lowing' to the increased population, was concluded on May 20" in. the Second Special District Court when Judge Chen gave a judgment in favour of Vu Cheng-lung, a landlord living at Lane 389 Rue Bourgeat who is now entitled to use the telephone Jat his home, which was transferred to
ant him by his former tenant and defend.
'The defendant, Ling Hsiang-cheng, lived in Yu's house for some time, during which he installed a telephone, Before he moved out Inst November fatter several months' residence, he [transferred the telephone (number 71886) to Vu. Recently, however, he wrote {0 the telephone Company asking that the telephone registered Under his name be removed trying to obtain some extra money from Vu, if the latter still wanted the service.
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