Urgent Need for Measures in Tientsin River Nanking, Aug. 23.
If no effort other than dredging is made to improve the Hai Ho it may be closed to navigation within the next ten years This striking statement, credited by river officials, was made to-day by the correspondent, of the "Central Evening News," who added that the Tientsin port is closed to navigation at present because of the tremendous volume of silt from the Yungting Ho which been poured into the Hai Ho-Reuter.
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