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Show ITALIAN STOREKEEPERS DENOUNCED AS ROBBERS ROME. Jan. 13. The Italian mid- die cla.-ses whose incomes remain sub- H Istantially what they were before the ffATATJ War, angrily resisting what they HBVJ denounce as the "outragdous prut for necessities exacted by profiteers;" BBVJ The scenes of indignation which occur HBa in some of the stores of Rome show HBVJ the exasperation of the consumers. H I One man who was asked the cquiv H ..lent of $64 for a pair of shoes lobl il, shopkeeper: "Burglars who en-your en-your house rob are not tin- only : holdup men In this town. You come in the same category.'.1 Another man. when asked the equivalent of $30 foi a hat. told the shopkeeper that ho was IJH i ho manufacturer of the hat and had sold It to the dealer for $10. He called ffH "a robber." Lately the shopkeepers have been compelled to mark the prices in plain figures on every article In the shop windows in the vain hope that trades-men trades-men would be ashamed to ask exor-bit. exor-bit. mt prices: the only effect apparent-ly apparent-ly has beed to level prices upward in-down. |