Tokyo, June 11 Ships sunk by the Chinese "0 make booms in the Yangtze River and the Tsingtao harbour will be refloated under the supervision of the Japan Iron Manufacturing Company, it was announced today After studying a report brought to Tokyo by Mr. Jiro Avashiro, direc-for of the company, following a four weeks' inspection tour along the Yangtze and at Tsingtao, officials decided to entrust' the refloatation work to the Japar Salvage Company.
According to the report submitted by Mr, Arashiro, 53 ships are at the bottom of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers and eight are sunk in Tsingtao harbour. The salvage firm plans to raise 30 vessels in the Yangtze and all those sunk ni Tsingtao, Efforts {o refloat ships of the shin Kisen Kaisha sunk by the Chinese in the Whangpoo also will be continued by the Jo Salvage Company, Some of the vessels not badly damaged will be returned to service while others will be disposed of as serap—Domei
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