With Demand; Foodstuffs Brought to Shanghai Flat-bottomed river boats and junks of the Shanghai Inland River Shipping Company, which ply the labyrinthian waterways of the Yangtze Delta, are responsible for the speedy return of prosperity to the numerous hamlets and villages which dot the fertile regions of the seaboard, the "Tairiku Shimpo" said in a featured article.
The network of the inland river transportation company's routes has spread over the lower Yangtze, except in the regions around Taihu Lake, south of Kiangyin, the paper stated.
Four waterways comprise the main inland routes of the shipping company. The route linking Shanghai with Soochow, Wusih, and Changchow offers five services a month, while boats operate daily between Hangchow and Tangsi; Tsingfu and Chukiakio; with Shanghai having daily service to Taisang and Ming-hang, according to the Japanese journal. Boats travel between Shanghai and Pinghu five times each month.
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