Tiensongkong, which is the port of Nantungchow, is on the north bank jof the Yangtze about eight hours' steaming time from Shanghai. It is fat the mouth of a creek and after the [Chinese had created the boom acre the Yangtze near Kiangying, which a few miles higher up the river, it has been a terminal port for transport, of cargo through a series of creeks to Koawan, across the Yangtze from Chinkiang. After the cessation of normal Yangtze trade this route has been considerably used for the transport of cargo by junks and lighters into the interior. Large sup-phoo of foodstuffs and livestock have been coming into Shanghai from this region employing the use of coastal steamers and dozens of small tugs.
Although the Japanese forces are in operating up th Tientsin-Pukow Railway, this partl= cular part of the country, occupying the triangular extension of the north Danie of the Yangtze mouth, with portant towns like Nantung, Kinsha, Jand Haimen, has been ignored by Japan in military operations,
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