Shanghai, Feb. 22.
After 9 few days cesoite from the worst ice blockade that the port has lexperieneed in the Jast thirty years, Tientsin Is, again in the throes of fan Ie blockade duc to the fact that the wind has shifted once again from the west to the east and the ice is Jagain being driven from the sea to the shore, 'The ice, that for severa! Jdays was melting due to the element weather, is now piling up again and free=ing' with the cold wind that is lbicwing over the lee floes.
Ships that have had some hope of omaring themselves from the lee, are ses ogam in the grip of the dancious bergs that press on ships from each side, buckling the plate Ships that had taken advantage of the coparent cession in the lee. attempted at too late a date to pene-{trate the fee floc. One of them was s. Kwaran Maru, operated by the Nisshin. Kisen Kaisha, She arrived oft Taku on February 2 but was un-ele to get through the lee. After four days of drifting in the vicinity, the ship received an appeal from the Pol Chin, a 2.000" ton freighter bound from Tientsin to Dairen.. Manned by a crew of 60, the Chinese chip had only a day' provisions on board when she left Dairen, and she found herself confronted with starvation when she got imbedded In the fee, unless rescue soon came,
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