The importation of high explosives is not a question which often occurs to the average resident. But it is an important one; and further it.i noticeable that while the greatest taken over the storage of gasoline and kerosene, high explosives seem to take a second plage in the authorities' attentions.
Procedure in regard to importa tion is briefly as follows. Vessels carrying explosives and ammunition are required by the Chinese Mari time Customs to discharge their cargo outside Woosung and it is then conveyed by lighters to magazines situated roughly nine miles from the Bund. The dynamite magazine is ut a spot known as Maluchiao, which is near the Kajou Creek at the entrance to the upper end of the Astrea Channel. The gunpowder magazine is situated at Tonkou, some two miles away from the dynamite magazine, and is built on a piece of Jand to the Customs in 1881.
'At which time,.it will readily be seen, Shanghai, as we know it, was very' much further away than' it is to-day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.