What was at frst thought a bright {dea was put into action, only to prove dismally inadequate, This was the Unloading of logs and squared timber Girect into the harbour waters but it was soon found that the log Is a Slippery customer for any but experts and the Dairen stevedores were -definitely light weight when they started to handle this sea-borne traffic, Before Tong attempts ceased, in the meantime those financially interested were demanding a rapid clearing of the port as with the lengthy periods ships had to stay in the roads, together with a lessening in the number of trips they could thus make, the net Price of timber was rising daily.
Harbour offeials, distressingly perturbed over this state of affairs, really got down to work with everything they could rake up, but even at that, on August 1 there' were still seven ships which had been unavilingly walting to unload their cargoes timber, after being here from July 23, 'Then these officials got an especially brainy Idea which is to import' Atty boomers from Japan, which should effectively solve' the problem. All timber arriving here at this time is, With the exception of that from Japan, Unfinished. So, the Japanese lumber will be taken ashore in the old and approved way at the wharves while the rest will be dumped straight into the sea on coming into port where will be induced. or worried into where It is to go by these timber experis.
Then it is expected that the congestion of shipping will largely disappear, construction in Manchoukuo will continue unabatedly "and the Hsinking five-year plan will prove no lengthier than its name, The Kwantung Territory, with Dairen os its most harried seen a dearth of rain this ye almost unprecedented. Except for three showers the sun has shone down, brassily unrelentless every day of the year. There is still in this city water for two short hours a day, but how Jong even this sparse supply. will last is matter for fearful con-Jecture. Ice is frequently non-forthcoming and from now on this will be more so as Mukden, from which this city did some importing of this commodity, is now. itself being rationed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.