Some press messages filed by American correspondents in Shanghai, es reported from New York, emphasized the difficulty which would be experienced by American traders when the river was reopened. 'The spokesman asserted, however, that the writers of such' news dispatches had doubtless been unduly swayed by circumstances during the past two and a half years when large-scale military. operations were in full. swing along the river. The circumstances, he continued, hed changed e and would change more when the Yangtze was reopened up to Nanking.
In doubting he practicability of reopening the er up to Nanking, some American correspondents in Shanghai he said, claimed that it would be more practical to open the Yengtze up to Hankow.
The spokesman, however, pointed out that the Yangtze above Nanking was not free from attacks by C nese guerillas. This was demonstrate ed, he said, by the attack which Chinese guerillas made ea points between Nanking and Hankow yesterday.—Domei.
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