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Show RHINELAND STORES PUT LIMIT ON SALES COLOGNE. Jan. 2. Because of the Influx of foreigners to tu noodn. many of the store of the Rhlneland have adopted the nollcy of keeping open for buslnesH only a few hours each day as protection, the manage man-age claim, against being sold out before the holidays. Numerous fur. glove and Jewelry stores In Mayence, ('obleruc, Cologne, Dupseldorf and other cltlep huvr announced an-nounced In nowspuper advertisements that owing to lack of stork they would remain closed until further notlca In tile occupied area most store-1 store-1 keepers refuse to sell more than one article of a kind even to Germans and none to civilian foreigners unless I they Identify themselves by cards issued is-sued by the Interallied Rhlneland ; high commission, which some time ago. put out an order prohibiting the ! purchase of goods in large quantities quanti-ties by foreigners. Thin applies particularly par-ticularly to linens, woolen goods, silks, laces, dress materials, shoes anfl j various cloths which foreigner have I been seeking since October when the I mark began to slide, on tho foreign exchange. |