5
Remarks. A temporary Fixed Red light will be exhibited on or about the 12th December, 1916, from a position 60 yards south of the old light and 30
feet above high water.
Authority. Chief Engineer, Madras Port Trust.
C. W. SHEARME, Commander, R.I.M.,
Presidency Port Officer.
PRESIDENCY PORT OFFICE,
MADRAS, 28th November, 1916.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 471.
CHINA SEA.
Shanghai District Yangtze River.
NORTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TSUNGMING CROSSING:
Shoal Patch Washed Away--Normal Depths Attained.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Tsungming Crossing, North Channel Entrance to the Yangtze River, has been resounded and that the shoal patch referred to in Special Notice to Mariners No. 470 has washed away.
The Crossing has now a least depth of 14 feet at low water of extraordinary spring tides in the buoyed fairway. Its contours are now similar to those shown on Marine Department Charts Nos. 1 and 2 as corrected to May, 1916.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 26th December, 1916.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 8 or 1916.
Infectious Diseases.
THE attention of the shipping public is hereby drawn to Clause 33 of the Harbour Regulations for the port of Shanghai, which reads:---
'Vessels arriving from an infected port, or having any infectious disease on board or any disease suspected to be infectious, and vessels on board which a death has occurred during the voyage from her last port, shall, as provided by the Quarantine Regulations for the port, on approaching Woosung, hoist the Quarantine Flag (International Code Flag Q) at the fore, anchor outside Woosung Spit Buoy, and keep the flag flying until pratique has been granted.
No person shall be permitted to leave or board such vessel without a permit
from the Harbour Master or the Port Health Officer."
Approved:
F. S. UNWIN,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
SHANGHAI, 29th December, 1916.
WM. CARLSON,
Harbour Master.