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Tsingkiangpu, Ku., D ig and Tsingkiangpu, a section long, for feenturies been the one channel of feommunication with the outside world for North Kiangsu, but in recent years its usefulness has been growing less and less. During the winter months, the water becomes too low for the larger boats and consequently some of then gat wedged into the narrow places in the channel where other boats ean-of pass them, This creates a block, which often continues for months, obstructing passage and causing great inconvenience commerce, For weeks, now, the fehannel has been blocked above Kaoyu.
This waterway is a most import-int factor in the commercial life {this part of China, and constant fort has been made and much money spent in an effort to. keep the canal open for transportation. In many places, its high banks are faced with stone as a protection in me of hig water and dodges are constantly at work in low water, feenening the channel, but so far, these efforts have proved futile, Conditions are becoming worse.
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