Friday, Sept. 15, 'A" Company.—Lt. G. 'T, Gambling to Command—September 8, 1938, Resignations Armoured Car Company—Lt. J.C. Boldero, vs.c, resigns his commission September 's, 1939, Tue Shanghai Municipal Council health report for the week ending midnight September 16, shows. that the total number of deaths from fall causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement were—Foreigners 9 and Chie nese 526, Deaths from notifiable diseases, "were—Foreigners, 'Tuber culosis 2; Bacillary Dysentery 2 and Amoebic Dysentery "1, Chinese, Typhoid Fever 32; Tuberculosis 29; Dysentery 18; Cholera 143- Choleraic Diarrhoea 8; Diphtheria' 2; Beriberi 2; Relapsing Fever '2 and Measles, Typhus Fever 1 each, lonely customer is likely to buy. from them; they will often give fictitious prices playing on the ignorance of their customer in the hope "of reaping further gains.
Summing up, I have reason to believe that there isa tendency ov the part of small traders to take advantage of the present trying times to feather their own nests, How long must prices keep mounting? there no legal machinery in. the "Settlements, interested enough to take a hand'in suppressing or other= wise abating this corrupt practice? T think it's time something in. this [direction is done by influential sympathetic quarters, Perhaps a. public hotifieation to the effect that ilesal profiteering in prices during the [present abnormal times is prohibited fon pain of severe punishment would help to alleviate the situa In Hongkew, at, least 1 hear that the police help "to preserve some semblance of decency "and that hawkers found fixing prices with a view to illegitimate gains are arrested and fined. In Hongkong, the British Authorities are doing likewise and Jare seeing to it that due punishment meted out to delinquents of this order. Are we to remain silent on this issue and et the public morality bankrupt?
Kno Shang!
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