when trade and shipping had to) reckon with the great war in Europe, it will be seen that Tientsin managed to record a lout this since has recovered.
The chief difficulty, which has! been stated already, is wharfage Jaccommodation, and even when the jex-German concession bund is remade, there will still be a congestion, unless wharves are constructed along the opposite, or Russian concession, side of the river.
Tientsin, therefore, has reason io Jcongratulate itself on its shipping expansion and moreover upon possessing such an effective medium {for its advance in the Haiho Conservancy Board, which to date has. spent nearly eight million taels and, has dredged and excavated about Jseven billion cubic feet from chan-Inds and excavations in its gigantic effort to provide Tientsin and in-Jcidentally the great commercial market of the North with one of the finest river harbours in the Far East.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.