It was reported last night by the Central Press Service that the price of rice at Nanking had dropped to $80 a picul owing to continuous arrival of supplies and to the prospect of a good harvest in districts near Nanking, A further drop was predicted.
While bitter fighting continued yesterday in the direction of Odessa, where the Germans are furious attempts to penetrate the defences of jo's principal Black Sea port, Nazi inst Marshal Klementi Voroshilov's armies in Pressure against the northern sector appeared to have been intensified. with the Russians stubbornly resisting in the directions of Kingisepp (70 miles south-west of [Revter.
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