According to telegrams received in Shanghai from Tientsin yesterday, the Tientsin River is blocked with silt and it is impossible for vessels to proceed along to their usual Bund berths.
ntly, following the recent heavy-rains and floods, a consider able quantity of silt, has been washed down the tributaries leading into the Haiho (commonly known as the i Tientsin River) with the result that the Intter waterway has been filled to such an extent that there is now only ten feet of wat
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