Shanghai, Aug. 14.
Prices of vegetables are expected to increase on August 16 when the new Shanghai Caltle (and vegetable) Market in Hongkew will effect a monopoly of the business. Its desire of monopoly not only of cattle but also. poultry and vegetables was announced some time ago, and it was reported yesterday that after August 16 no vegetable hawkers in Pootung will be allowed to come into foreign areas unless they pass through Hongkew, Tt was said that the usual ble crowds of vegetable hawkers seen in foreign areas carly each morning will not be allowed to do so. They will be required to go to Hongkew first from the Tung Chang Wharf In Pootung. "AN retailers operating south of the creek must' go to Hongkew to buy vegetables" from the new market, With the supply of rice reduced owing to the embargo and other Festrictions effected in the interior and with all cattle, fowls and now vegetables placed under the control of the new market the unoccupied parts of foreign settlements" in Shanghai may just as well be considered as blockaded.
According to the recent announce ment made by the new market, tration of all poultry and vege-fables dealers must be done between August 1 and 15, All" steamers carrying these goods to Shanghai must be appointed. The ferry. service between Pootung and Hongkew reported to be run by the Japanese, Hongkew Starts Fight Against Landlords Shanghai, Aug. 11.
Japanese _newspapermen today were in the van of an anti-landlord campaign in. Hongkew, as they sought to organize the tenants of the Pearce Apartments, situated at the. corner of Boone and Chapoo Roads, in a protest against a recent raise in rents, 'According to the "Tairiku Shimpo," the Shanghai Land Investment Company, owners of the building, on' August 1 notifed their tenants' that beginning this month, one-fourth of the rental would be collected at the pre-devaluation rate of dollar exchange when the Chinese yuan was persed, at cne shilling, two anda half pence. 'This would bring an actual' Increase of from $160 to $240 for a typical apartment, the paper said. This is a 50 per cent. raise.
The Shanghai Japanese Journalists Association with club rooms in. the Pearce Apartments on August 9 ireularized all tenants. urging. them to join a movement of protest, the newspaper declared, The "higher-rent parade" was launched by the Broadway Mansions, now owned by the Shanghai Hong Chang Company, a Sino-Japanese firm, last month, when tenants were notified of a 38 per cent. raise on their rents beginning August 1, while beginning September 1 rents would be quoted in Hua Rising Yuan pegged at Gd.
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