All Shanghai shipping companies doing business on the Yangtze River announced yesterday that all. sailings end arrivals scheduled to and from river ports are temporarily suspended. These include the Indo-China 8. N. Company, the China Navigation Com= pany, China Merchants, San Poh, and Nisshin Kisen Kaisha.
Jardine Matheson & Ca, Ltd, reported that the s. Kungwo, outward bound from Shanghai, is caught at Tungchow and unable to reach Hankow. Between Tungchow, which fairly near Woosung, and Chinkiang the river is wholly unnavigable. The 83, Loongwo, of the same line, is similarly caught at Chinkiang on her way from Hankow to Shanghai.
While traMe from Shanghai to river ports Is at an absolute standstill, shipping between this port and other parts of the world is wholly unaffected insofar as the ability of ships to pass in and out is concerned, according to Yeports from the shipping interests of the various nationalities, "Including Chinese and Japanese, on Schedule The D.K.K, Line reported yesterday that their ships are running absolutely according to schedule from here to 'Tsingtao and Dairen, and are heavily loaded with Japanese refugees who gre unable to reach Japan directly. Some are going to Japan via Dairen while others will remain in Korea. 'The s. Hoten Maru sailed yesterday' Dassengers, with her decks crowded with Japanese
The more fortunate Japanese sailed out of Shanghai yesterday in the N.¥.K. Shanghai Maru and Nagasaki Maru." The line made special arrangements to evacuate the two full boatloads yesterday and every available square inch of space was occupied by either passengers or their mountains of belongings.
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