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Show AZORE ISLANDS LOSEJUSINESS Profiteering Drives Ships to Other Ports LISBON. Oct. H Uving conditions In the Aiore Islands are very bad. and the outlook for the islanders Is most gloomy, according to Jose Itobello de Rettencourt, a Journalist of the the Islands who haa recently come to Lisbon. The chief cause of the trouble that foreign ships have virtually given up putting Into the Island ports fur repair re-pair and supplies. lsv and days pass at Ponta Ielgada and Faval, and no ship shosra up. And things are going from bad to worse. The hips do not cosie principally because the local su-thorltles su-thorltles have succumbed to the temp-tstlon temp-tstlon of profiteering. Meat has been, snd is sold today, to residents at one escudo a kilogram. Rut the town hall authorities have a monopoly (n the sate i of this commodltv. and thev have fixed I the ;rice to foreign ships at twenty I escuuos a kilogram. American and ether captains have been instructed by the owners not to replendish at the Axores unless compelled to do so, and furthermore, these vessel now carry Is rger supplies of preserved meat. Hene they give the Azores a wide berth. The cost of living In the Island has advanced greatly. . The regulat Ion t. gainst the export of cattle has brought cattle breeders to poverty, and many furm tenants have ben compelled to r .Unguis, their holdings to the owners |