The bad weather and heavy rain, followed by a strong current from the River Han, have rendered the cork of examining the str. Feibu an. impossible task for the divers. The salvage company finds that nothing more can be done till a shield has been constructed to protect the workers from the current and a report to this effect has been sent to Shanghai. The steady rise in the river will render the task more dificult than it is even now.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.