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“...moored. There seems to be some relation between
this extension.of the harbour and wharfage facilities and the acquisi-
tion of a large piece of land on the north bank of the Yangtze
opposite, by the German agents of a well-known London house for
the construction of kerosene oil tanks.
In December one of the British Steamship Companies estab-
lished a passenger agency at Huk'ou, the town at tlie mouth of
the Poyang Lake, 15 nautical miles below Kiukiang. Huk'ou was
named as a Yangtze stage in the Chefoo Convention, but in 1877
it was arranged that it should not be opened as such until special
regulations had been drawn up. The agreement of 1877 has never...”
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