On Tuesday, for every 100 piculs of the first grade Saigon rice an allowance of $1,000 was demanded, In other words, the profiteers followed the official wish in appearance but in fact they asked for more money in secret dealings, as the allowances were pald in Addition to the price money, 'The allowance for broken Saigon rice surpassed the $1,000 mark. 'There was no improvement of the situation yesterday, With the sup~ piles arriving continuously and with ready stocks ample enough to meet several months' demand, the Chinese press attributes the increase of prices definitely to activities of profiteers and to the absence of drastic orna action, "How can the Settlement authori tle win the confidence of the popular here when they cannot punish the rice 19 openly defy orders?" chinese American Dally News" in a long lender published on Tuesday, The paper does not believe that it is beyond the ability of the Settlement police to find out rice profiteers and to bring them to book. It is only a pretext to say that it dimeult to locate profiteers, the paper for who will believe that when detectives arrest robbers in the evening after the latter have com= mitted crimes during the day?
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