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Ashika Jima Beacon Light.
Position --Latitude 35° 12′ 51′′ N., Longitude 139° 44′ 19′′ E.
(According to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 91.)
Description:---Lower part concrete, upper part iron lattice work, painted black. Height of light :-40 shaku from the base and 48 shaku above the water.
Character of light :--Acetylene gas flashing white, showing one flash every 3 seconds. Illuminated are :-- The whole horizon:
Power:-150 candles.
Visible distance :-113 nautical miles in clear night.
The beacon being unwatched, should the light go out by accident there may be some delay in relighting it.
Further notice will be given after the above beacon has been lighted.
TOKYO, August 26th, 1916.
TRANSLATION.
KATSUNDO MINOURA, Minister of State for Communications.
Notification No. 708 of Department of Communications.
Gulf of Tokyo.
Newly Established Beacon Light has been Shown.
NOTICE is hereby given that Ashika Jima Beacon light on Ashika Jima, Uraga Suido, Gulf of Tokyo, has been shown (see notification No. 688 of Department of Communications Angust, 1916) since the 24th of August, 1916.
TOKYO, September 2nd, 1916.
KATSUNDO MINOURA, Minister of State for Communications.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 5. OF 1916.
Dredging Operations on the Whangpoo.
NOTICE is hereby given that, in order to indicate their positions relative to the centre and navigable sides of the fairway, DREDGERS operating on the Whangpoo will exhibit symbols, from a staff erected on the platform over the bucket-tumbler, as under-
One diamond dredger working in centre of fairway.
One ball dredger working on right of centre for vessels inward bound. Two balls: dredger working on left of centre for vessels inward bound.
The dredgers will be moored with six anchors, one ahead, one astern, and two on each side.
Small white-painted cask-buoys, moored with the shortest practicable lengths of chain, mark the breast anchors but may be swept under by the current so that reliance cannot be placed on their constant visibility.
Approved:
F. S. UNWIN,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOMS HOUSE,
SHANGHAI, 6th September, 1916.
WM. CARLSON,
Harbour Master,