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Show FOOD PRICES IN FRANCE MOVE UP PARIS, Aug. 5 The Inhabitants of France aro theatcned with a general rise of 20 per cent in the cost of living liv-ing heforo winter sets in. according lo the official at the prefecture of the Slene whose duty it is to collect statistics sta-tistics on prices of raw materials, food.' Clothes, rent, etc, with a view to fore- telling probable future prices The price of moat Is mounting and 'chllwled mat from North and South America, about which so much was , heard just before the war Is now never mentioned. Its importation ban i beon made Impossible by the recenl i custom duties I Clothing, w hich had dropped consld-iably consld-iably below war prices, Is expected to I Increase again |