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Show I' SHIPPING CURTAILED BY NUMEROUS MINES NEWCIRVANG, April 1G. The authorities au-thorities have warned shipping not to nnchor within Ave miles below or one mllo abovo the fort here on account of mines. They havo also forbidden any activity on the river at night. Some small ships arrived today, attracting- a ? great crowd to the Bund. The Imperial K Chinese Railway Is giving refugees ' t iransportatlon to Tientsin. Owing to the fact that about 2000 Chinese depend i on the shipping of Newchwang, its curtailment cur-tailment will soon. It is feared, lead to much distress among them. The conditions and regulations' surrounding sur-rounding shipping in the Yalu arc practically prac-tically the 8.HI1C aj) at Newchwang. Only twenty or thirty native fruit boats are reported, to have arrived at Antung. Exports, chiefly beans, are permitted, but no ship's, are nllowcd to He at the entrance to the river. |