ON FOCHOW CREEK.- Extending right through the centre of the city from the Yangtse is Foochow Creek, the great highway of traffic for local and oversea ships that visit Shanghai. Three-fourths of the goods that pass through this city are conveyed by barge a lon g this evil-smelling waterway. Our cables Inform us that the bridges have been closed by the Japanese. This leaves a portion of the International Settlement along the Yangtse isolate d from the larger part. The photographs above show the everyday activity on the creek. The great American type of office building is now, by the holding of the bridge heads, shut off from the main part of the city.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 5
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114ON FOCHOW CREEK.-Extending right through the centre of the city from the Yangtse is Foochow Creek, the great highway of traffic for local and oversea ships that visit Shanghai. Three-fourths of the goods that pass through this city are conveyed by barge along this evil-smelling waterway. Our cables Inform us that the bridges have been closed by the Japanese. This leaves a portion of the International Settlement along the Yangtse isolated from the larger part. The photographs above show the everyday activity on the creek. The great American type of office building is now, by the holding of the bridge heads, shut off from the main part of the city. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 5
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