To the Editor of the "Norru-Cutsa Day News."
Sin,—You deserve the thanks of all who are interested in the permanent welfare of Shanghai for your article in this} morning's paper entitled "The Menace of the Humgpu," but there is one point of the greatest importance in connection with this matter which has evidently not been brought to your notice and has also apparently escaped the observation of your correspondent ' Palinurus.""
Tallude to the shoaling of the Woosung Outer Bar, which has now only 15 feet 4 inches, at low water spring tides, in the shallowest part of the best channel across it, as against 19 feet 5 inches in January, 1896.
It is not then merely a question of shifting shipping facilities from Shanghai to Woosung that has to be considered, for the process of silting that is destroying the Huangpu, between the Kiangnan Arsenal and Woowung, is just as surely destroying whit, might now be con-the latter place; a e, if the apathy of th who have capital invested at Shanghai loads to its abandonment as a great shipping port, that in the meantime Woosung has also ceased to be approachable for shipping. There is really no choice in the matter between giving up both Shanghai and Woosung or undertaking a comprehensive scheme of river improvement and conservancy from the Arsenal to the Yangtze.
Tam, ete., Osserver.
15th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.