No Cards or Permanent Waves in China
■Received Monday, 8.50 p.m. CHUNGKING, Mar. 7. . Strict rationing of meat, sugar and oil will be instituted in Chungking next Monday. The measure is part of tho Government’s fight against mounting prices. Simple fixed-price meals will replace elaborate restaurant menus. Pork can be sold only one dav in five, the sale of all luxuries is forbidden and drastic penalties are provided for the infringement of laws designed to improve social and moral conditions. Card-playing, which is practically the foreigners’ only amusement, becomes a penal offence and permanent waves are forbidden.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 57, 9 March 1943, Page 5
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