With the train service along the Lunghai Railway resumed, Haichow overwhelmed with cargo from the interior, waiting for steamers to ship it' to Shanghai for transhipment. Tt was usually the China Merchants's 8. N. Co.'s business to charter at least one steamboat to ship away the cargo: the steamship Tungwab, for instance, was the last steamer arriving in Shanghai from that port with 3,700 cases of tobacco leaves. But, the harbour at Haichow is so shallow that at pi ent no coast vessel of any consider able tonnage dares to sail in, 'This Feason together with others compelled the Chinese Merchants' 'S. N. Ca. to give up this line, From to-day onward there will-be no more Chinese coasting steamer running fon this line,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.