DEFIANT PROFITEERS IN EGYPT
SERIOUS FOOD CRISIS.. ' \ (Rec. September iB, 9.45 p.m.) ~ . Cairo, September 16. . The profiteers have assumed' a defiant attitude, owing to the reintrbduction of the control' of the prices of necessaries. The cereal merchants have 1 cancelled their whept orders and sent back twenty wheat ships to Upper Egypt. The butchers, are refusing to kill. In view of the prospects ot a serious food crisis the authori- 4 ties have postponed the new tariff for two , days.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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82DEFIANT PROFITEERS IN EGYPT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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