Peiping, Sept. 18.
For the purpose of keeping commodity prices down and suppressing profiteering, the Japanese Police Bureau here will convene an econ-amic conference to be held on September 19 and 20 in Peiping; according to Chinese press réporfs.—Reuter.
S PrNNILESS war refugees, of whom there are about 25,000—Poles, Belgions and Dutch—in England are to be given pocket money. The Minister of Health "has authorised local coun-oils, where investigation shows that refugees are entirely without funds. to pay them 15d. a week if they are aged seventeen or over and 6d. per week if they are under seventeen. Sums will be taken from rates only where local and voluntary funds are billeted at the expense of the Govern. ni. ment, an allowance of £1 per week is made for one grown up person and 35s. a week for two, with 10s. 6d. for a child over 15, and 8s. 6d. for a child under that age.
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