Shanghai, Aug, 29 Efforts ave reported to have been made by the Chinese Chamber Commerce and other Chinese public bodies in Shanghai to prevail upon the Shanghai Post Oitiee to continue allowing exchange shop assistants to buy postage stamps for elreulation New of small money' as {hore is tne date set for the elreulation of the cent notes printed by the Chinese government, 'Teachers' Day"|""Firms and shops are also advised were two separate days in the!not to issue cent notes of their own, for, it is pointed out, it will only. doing honour to the cause trouble to them in future when as Confucius isthe official cent notes appear. in the widely known among Chinese school] market, At present, many Chinese and even a public toilet in Changping Road have issued cent notes for eiretlation, These notes are circulated in certain localities but they cause many disputes between shops accepting them and customers as the notes issued by one shop is hot acceptable to another unless special arrangements have been made.
Shops issuing cent notes of their own are warned against indulging in such a procedure because they may' fall prey to counterfeiters, When the official new cent notes appear in the market people may lure these shops to cash their nates and when that time comes counter-fait ones will likely appear eausir the shops to suffer losses. The Central Bank of China is reported to have also been petitioned to circulate the new cent notes as soon as possibi The public is still kept in the dark as to what the Shanghai Office of the Central Bank of China will do since the newly-arrived cent notes" are said to have been also printed by counterfeiters before they were ci culated. The office ix said to be still awaiting instructions from their head fice, Tue health report of the French Municipality for the week ending August 26, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession were—Foreigners 6 and Chinese 268, Deaths from notifiable diseases. were—For-feigners, Typhoid Fever 2; Typhus Fever i and Tuberculosis 1. Chinese, Dysentery 15; Typhoid and Parat hoid Fevers 14; Tuberculosis 10, [Cerebrospinal Meningitis beri 4: Pneumonia 2 and Whooping Cough, Septicemia 1 each.
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