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MUSSOLINI REFUSES TO SPONSOR "PEACE"

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COLONY'S NEW FOOD PRICE MADAME CONTROL ORDER: SLIGHT PILSUDSKI INCREASE AUTHORISED

SWEDISH

NAVY

ORDERED TO CONVOY

Stockholm, To-day.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Navy has or dered all Swedish merchant- ships not to move from Swe- dish waters before assem- bling for convoy.

The Swedish Navy is not exactly insignificant, for it includes 8 light battleships, 4 cruisers, 18 destroyers and 2 aircraft carriers.

While superior in several rea- pects, the German Navy has only 5 light battleships and no aircraft carriers with the exception of two which are now being built- Reuter.

TURKISH PARLEYS IN MOSCOW

Ankara, To-day.

Russia

The talks between Soviet

and Turkey are making progress in

ON FUTURE OF POLAND

London, To-day.

FOOD PRICES IN THE COLONY are subject to

slight upward modification as the result of a new As long as there was a Po Order issued by the Food Controller, and pub- be Poles to fight for their lish woman alive, there would lished to-day in a "Government Gazette Extra-country's freedom, said Ma- ordinary."

dame Pilsudski, widow of the Principal effect is that the price of goods from famous Polish General, who Canada or foreign countries other than sterling has arrived here from Ẹo. countries may be increased by 15 per cent, over and above the price charged by the retailer on August 31.

The Order states:

1. In this order,...

"food" includes every article or sub- stance used for food or drink, other than drugs, and also every living thing capable of being consumed as food;

"Import" means to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony by land, air or water;

"sell" means to sell by retall; "standard price" in relation to any food means the maximum retail price for the time being fixed by order by the Controller of Food.

2. No person shall sell or offer for sale any food at a price greater than the standard price.

RECEIPTS ON DEMAND ..

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3. At the request of any per son every retailer shall give written receipt for the, payment for any food sold by him to that ." person.

4. Except as otherwise expressly. provided by any order of the Con- troller of Food:-

(a) the maximum retail price for food prepared for export in Canada or

a friendly atmosphere, and will con- in any foreign country other than tinue for several days, according to China or Macau shall, as respects any an official statement.

A message from Moscow says that M. Sarajogiu was received yesterday by Voreshlloff and Mikoyan, the For- eign Trade Commissar.-Reuter.

LITHUANIA DECIDES

Kaunas, To-day. M. Urbsys, the Foreign Minister, leaving for Moscow agi

consultations wh

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price at which, on any date not later retailer, be Afteen per cent, above the than 31st August, 1939, he last sold food of that description;

EMPIRE AND LOCAL (b) the maximum retail price for any food prepared for export in any part of the British Empire except Canada, or Hong Kong shall, os res- pects any retaller, be ten per cent. above the price at which, on any, date not later than Jist August, 1980, he last sold food of that description;

(o) the maximum retall price for dez, after food, produced in this Colony or Im, Clover mugrit. ported from China or Mono skali, as und blindast - respects" any rotuller, be the pride, at "Soviet 2) pros (which, be any data not later than Stat

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5.. The order of the Controller of Food published in the Gazette" · of 8th September, 1999, is rescinded.

JAPAN AND THE ANTI-RED PACT

London, To-day.

"Japan will forego the application

land.

She was proud of the way in which

her country had acted, she said. When

the hour come, the Poles fought to the last.

The Nazis, in their attack on Poland, aimed principally at civilians.

One of their first air-raids was on a suburb of Warsaw, and the first building to be hit was a hos, pital. The bombere come over at a height of a few hundred feet, in broad daylight, and there could be: of the anti-Comintern Pact in view of ·

no question of any mistake, current developments," declared Ad- Other prominent buildings to be hit miral Nomura, the new. Foreign Min-included a workers' building, a creche ister, says a German report quoted by for children and a public bath. Rome Radlo. Reuter.

Reuter.

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