While the Shanghai Cattle Market has been organized in Hongkew to monopolize the pork and pig transportation business in Shanghai another new market is being established in Chapei by Japanese and uppers" for the purpose of controlling the sale of fruit and native products, The new organization is called the Shanghai Central Green Fruit and Native Products Market.
It is reported that by ce-operating with Chinese fruit merchants here the Japanese have been able to organize the new market in the old warehouse of the Joint Savings Bank in Chapei with a capital of $1,000,000, Branch markets are to be established in Nantao near the French Bund, Tsaokadoo (western district) and Siccawei.
It-Colonel C. R. Spear, Military Attache to the British Embassy in China, who is in the hands of the Japanese authorities in Kalgan, may be detained for a considerable time yet, according to Japanese reports.
It is indicated by well-informed Japanese that he may be held until the moving pictures he took of Chinese territory have been developed and carefully examined by the Japanese military authorities.
The films have just reached here and, as the nearest processing plant is in Shanghai, it appears that Colonel Spear's confinement is unlikely to end soon.
Managers of the more than 50 big fruit hogs which distribute fruits to retail dealers held a meeting on Thursday to oppose the new organization. While denouncing the few fruit merchants who have participated in the new organization, those present at the meeting decided not to have anything to do with the new market.
Like the Shanghai Cattle Market, the new fruit market is expected to monopolize the transportation: and distribution of fruit in Shanghai which has been obtaining a regular supply from neighbouring districts. Fukien, Kwangtung and Tientsin The British official was arrested Hua-yuan, north of Nan-on May 26. He was then emerging from Chinese occupied territory after a tour of north-west and north China, Colonel Spear was known to be carrying his British passport indicating his identity—Reuter.
Many kinds of fruit arrive from foreign countries. While Canton is an occupied area two important districts in Fukien, are closed to shipping unless with permission from the Japanese military $10,000 for Soldier Who
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