The report that Japanese salvage experts have} arrived to undertake the task of refloating the Steamers sunk in the boom off the Nantao Bund good news for Shanghai. It means that a definite attempt is to be made to remove this! obstacle to shipping which 1s interfering with! the use of the channel and the wharves beyond the Nantao Bund. Six vessels of the Nisshin Kisen Kaisha were sunk by the Chinese troops when the boom was created at the beginning the hostilities. There are other Chinese Vessels and there were many junks, but those] sMloat were burnt by the Japanese troops when the boom was penetrated after the retreat of! the Chinese. Local experts who have examined the situation believe that the refloating of the steamers and the removal of the boom do not present insuperable difficulties, It is believed that the sunken ships are resting on Chinese junks which, filled with cement, were sunk as a preliminary to the reinforcement by steamers, chiefly belonging to the N. K. K. While blocking the channel, the initial effoei of the boom was fo start a process of scouring which weakened the piling of the wharves on the Pootung side of the Whangpoo in that vicinity, but since the boom was forced this has been remedied although It is still impossible for vessels of any size to proceed to the upper reaches of the Whangpoo. The efforts of the Japanese salvage experts should remedy this as well as restore {to their owners six good ships, one of which has found much admiration in the eyes of shipping experts. What Shanghai needs is the removal of this and other physical and administrative obstacles to shipping if it is to re-ain anything like its former position as a port. The step now contemplated is good and in the ight direction. Commerce must continue but cannot. while physical obstacles and burden: rome restrictions exist, owing the return of normal shipping. activities "along the Soochow Creek and the South Whangpoo River, the local Inspectorate fof Customs has made arrangements to resume the collection of interport duties, states a report the "Sin Wen Pao." The Cusioms authorities are reported to have already dispatched Chinese and Japanese staff members to various points slong the Soochow Creek to inspect goods and Assess the Interport duties according to the former tariff rates.
An advertiser, under Box No. 1098, ¢/0 North-China Dally Nows, is arranging joint travel groups travelling home via Siberia at reduced group fares. The parties will leave Shanxhal
july Merch 30, Ape 28, May M, June and The jury list for the ensuing year Ix now being revised by H.BM. Supreme Court for China at Shanghai. Exemption may be claimed fon the grounds that one is over 0 age, or disabled by mental or bodily infirmity, or. that one's gross income is not £50 per The Chinese Government Bureau of Marks, under the Ministry of Economic moved to Chungking, Szechuen Province, where business will be carried on og usual. The cable address is "Trademarks." With the reorganization of the Bureau, all seals and stamps belonste ing to the former Bureau of Trade Marks of the Ministry of Industrjes, are declared to be null and void, Anion. the iblications of the North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd., are the 1938 edition of the China Year Book, selling at $18 the new Ching Hong List, at $10; the 1938 edition of the China Consters Tide Book, at $5: and "Five Months of War," being a revised edition of "Four Months of War" (which sold 3), with additional information at $4.50 per copy.
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