Shanghai, Mar. 29.
HE recent proclamation of the Japanese naval authorities in Tsingtao, re-opening the port to shipping of third party Powers, has been put into effect and ships may now enter the inner harbour and use their wharves there.
The "North-China Daily News" was informed by an official of a local British shipping firm yesterday that one of his company's vessels had already dis~ charged her cargo without hitch at the wharves inside the inner harbour, Prior to the publication of the proclamation all foreign shipping was obliged to discharge cargo in the outer harbour. Before being allowed to discharge cargo at the wharves, however, all foreign ships must notify the Japanese Special Naval Mission at Tsingtao, some days before arrival at the port, of the nature of the cargo and the total contents, Reports that, following the opening of Tsingtao to foreign shipping, the Sapanese were contemplating the resumption of third party shipping along the Yangtze, were discredited yesterday by a British shipping ofllal, who stated that negotiations between the Japanese authorities and representatives of third parly Powfers were sill deadlocked, Reglsteation Questions te Japanese authorities had Iassted was reported yesterday that
Upon the Tegutration under them of ale mind "party vessels using the Yangize, This, it was slated, would faust a. scious divergence of Splnlons. a problem which the ego: {tore representing third party Pow were tying to solve. istration of foreign shipping, if carried out would virtually bring all vessels using the river under official Japanese control.
Although no information was given Im the reports as to how the registration would be carried out, it was learnt that one of the conditions would be that the Japanese authorlties would require all foreign steamers to hoist the Japanese flag ¢rom Kiangyin upwards. This was. stated to be the thorny point of the diseussions and that an agreement would have to be reached before the river was opened, Wushengkwan Tunnel to
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