The Yachiyo then proceedell on her course down river, but even then her mishaps were not over as at 8.30 pam, she collided with and damaged the Taku Tug & Lighter Co's lighter Changli- moored alongside No. 9 Section of the British Bund just below the upper swinging berth and continuing leisurely down iver bumped into another lighter belonging to the Taku Tug & Lighter Ca., the Anting, lying at No. 9 Section of the British Bund, which was exactly. tivo minutes after the collision which the Changli. Still continuing her zigzag course, the 'Yachiyo Maru carried right over the wreck of the Taku Tug & Lighter Co.'s tug Stirling lying sunk in the river opposite the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.'s offices on the British Bund at the top of Paoshun Toad. Eventually she arrived at Tangku without having Inficted any further damage to river craft or shore projecti "The Yachiyo Maru came up river quite safely, without any mishap, and moored alongside her accustomed perth, but this can only be attributed to pure "joss The Haiho is in such that any steamer proc upper reaches yuns a grave risk either on the voyage up or down. "That silt and mud are still pouring into the Haiho was clearly proven yesterday when the deck of one of the half sunken lighters was coated vith a layer of fine mud about one thickness. This mud was ally on the top of the water which had been brought down the overflow from the Yung-QP" voles for tanaks With the arrival of several light. ens and tug boats from Japan and the establishment of several Chinese Tug & Lighter Co's boats the congestion of cargo at Tangku has been considerably relieved, The long and inconvenient delay in the discharging and loading of steamers at! Tangku is now becoming a matter of the past, and it is hoped, as time goes on that the transportation of corge to and from Tangku will be considerably hastened and there wi be no further need to complain ubout vexatious delays.
Several, in fact the majority, of these new lighters are of the steel variety and' are fitted with the! customary steam winches and are! Jeapable of handling quickly _and efficiently all kinds of cargo. Shipping companies have now. settled down to regard Tangku as the port, not Tientsin, and as the shippers of cargo from' the various ports i Japan and other parts of El have now become accustomed to the extra charges levied for lighterage, it is anticipated that business will continue as usual, irrespective of the bad state of the Haiho.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.