Con, Fed, Inc, U.S.A, is. the only Apierican company operating general carrier on the Yang! iver. Tt was started in 1923 as a: Goxge line venture with one steamer tok. special design for low water navigation between Ichang and! Chungking. "This type of ship {proved so. successful that others were added and by 1926 the Yangtze Rapids Company had derionstratthe practicability of operation during the winter months, thing! hitherto deemed impossible. Just as Captain Plant's first voyage through the Gorges opened up Szechuan Peovinee to the world in the summer, 80 did the Yangtze Rapid service maintain this open door the! year round. Prior to the advent of this American company, Chungking had been cut. off from' the rest of China from December to May, un-Jess a two months trek by junk were undertaken, the first to put a year-gave the Yangtze Rapid Line can-siderable momentum from the start, and by 1926 six steamers were in operation on the Upper River, all flying tle American flag. During days of the 1926-27 civil it was the that were
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