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Show PRICES FIXED FOR FOOD IN FRANCE PARI a Feb. in, 5 a. m. The food ministry has decided that from February Febru-ary 19 maximum prices are to be fixed throughout France for milk, nutter and cheese. In the. department ot: the Seine, including" Paris, the pru'e of milk must uot exceed 10 cents for a liter about a pint and three-quarters if bought in a shop, or 11 cents delivered. The maximum, maxi-mum, prices for butter vary from $1.12 to $1.-J4 per kilo roughly two pounds according to the quality and source. The only cheese prices fixed so far are camcnibert, from 13 cents to 26 cents the small box, according to quality, qual-ity, a.nd pont l'eveqne at slightly higher high-er prices. All prices must be conspicuously conspicu-ously displayed in the shops concerned. There will be no celebration of Mardi Gras next Tuesday, but all theaters will hf permitted to give both morning and evening performances. The two-course meal regulation, which applies to all hotels and restaurants, goes iiito effect today- |