The Governor of Shantung reports that the banks of the Yellow River in Shantung stand in urgent need of repairs and asks that he may be supplied with funds to enable him to carry out the work. The present course of the Yellow River in Shantung was, he explains, in former days a great waterway for the carriage of salt and both of its banks are thickly dotted with towns and villages. On the southern side the embankment is some four or five ti from the river and the intervening space
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