"As Is known, a part of the booms on the Yangtze River which were originally constructed by the Chinese.for their military purposes has Yecently been forced through by the Imperial Japanese Navy with a view to utilizing the opening only for military navigation. ince the channel forced through the booms cannot be opened for free navigation without causing, in the present, circumstances, rib small obstacle to the military' operations of the Japanese Forces, any vessel, whether it be government-owned or private-owned, other than those of Japanese nationality, which has. the desire of passing through the chan-rel, Is hereby cordially requested to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.