Chinkiang, Sept, 18.
At the request of the Kiangsu provincial Government, the Yangtze River Conservancy Commission has [despatched a group of engineers for further investigation of harbour con+ ditions, with a view to developing. IChinklang, the provincial capital of Kiangsu, as a commercial port. The Jengineers, headed by a Netherlands expert, are surveying the Yangtze from Chinshantsui to Chiaoshan, The work is to be completed in a fort night, and, on the basis of their investigations, engineering plans for a harbour project will be devised Kuo afin.
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