Harbin, Nov. 2
The goods turnover of Harbin ort for 1083 has been quite & good Sne though of course. not equal to the record season of 1981 when the shipments, of not only grain but other goods were the largest ever Known on the Sungar The year 1082 was one during which there was very considerable military trafic on the river and. there waa a very great flood during more than two months of the sum mer navigation, that year may be Tefe out altogether as Fegards come
That of other years.
m of the goods trae with On the whole the navigation of water has beer of & good depth for 41999 has been one during: which the Jost of the. Season," permitting Jnrgo steamers to. pass up an down through the rapids, though here were three or four weeks uring which there was so_ little Water that all large steamers had to transfer part of their cargo into funks to carry it over the shallow Section. In 1932 no steamers sailed from Harbin to the Amur on the Ussuri, but' this season' the trade thas been reopened as the Man~ choukuo' Government have built Several gunboats. to protect their commercial vessels in these rivers.
The total number of vessels trad-4ng on the Sungari during the past Summer may be seen from the fowing! Arsivals "450 steters, 401 freamers, 70 barges and. 38 Junks, junk? sailings this making a total turnover of 56 steamers, 471. barges and 180 Junky grand' total i201 "vessels. The figures axe taken from, the returns of the Port of Harbin from Commencement of the navigation intil October 1
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