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Show JAPAN TRIES TO SPEED BOESS Reduction and Regulation of Prices Also Aim of Cabinet. Orders. TOKIO. August 19. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) Reduction Re-duction and rcgu'atlon of prices ami relief of the present depression is the hope of the cabinet In its decision upon the following measures: "Exclusion of specie held abroad1 from the currency reserve funds; Withdrawal of paper currency of small denominations; of tobacco; "Increase of Interest on postal sav-I sav-I Ings deposits; "lowering of railway freight rates on necessities of life; "Adoption of measures to facilitate 'better transportation of daily necessities; neces-sities; "Increase of the number of refrlg- r'r care on railway ! "Reduction of freight rates on small parcels; "Instruction of all municipalities to start freight service on street car lines; "Encouragement of organization of shippers' associations: "Encouragement of formation of (purchasing associations to eliminate the middleman "Offering of snecial transportation , facilities to shlppera' associations, purchasing pur-chasing associations and public mar-Y mar-Y is. ' Establishment of wholesale mr ketfl and sp urlng of proper distribution distribu-tion of commodities, "Investigation and publication of prices; "Incre ies and Improvement of i public markets; "Supplying of iumher and charcoal, from government owned forests at cheaper rates; "Encouragement of reduction ofi consumption. j "Regulation of exchanges; "Instruction of bankers to refuse loans to speculators " The cabinet hopes to restrict the expansion of currency by excluding, specie held In foreign countries from the currency reservo fund. Withdrawal Withdraw-al of smnll paper currency from circulation cir-culation by the end of the vear Is! designed to prevent the waste of1 umney for trifles. Reduction of tobacco prices will mean 8 loss of yen 10,00Q,000 annually to iii'- government tobacco monopoly |