PROFITEERS IN EGYPT.
RESISTANCE TO CONTROL. FOOD CRISIS THREATENED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1 a.m.) CAIRO, Sept. 17. Profiteers in Egypt have , assumed a defiant attitude owing to the reintroduction of Government control of prices of necessaries. Cereal merchants have cancelled orders for wheat, and have sent back twenty ships laden with grain. In Upper Egypt, the butchers are refusing to kill. In view of the prospect of a serious food crisis, the authorities have postponed the new tariff for two days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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