(While the breach in the boom built by the Nationalist regime at Kiangyin on the Yangtze was sufficient for One vessel to pass there at a time, Japanese pilots and tugs were needed to assist the ship through, the spokesman asserted, Should the waterway be opened to general traffic, the Japanese naval authorities on' the spot would be unable to cope with the situation.
A widening of the breach or the creation of another passage was "out of the question" at the present time when the Japanese navy had her "hands full" with operations on the upper reaches of the river, he declared,
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