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MEMORANDUM ON THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR INCREASING
THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA.
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We understand that all we are asked to express an opinion
upon is the "necessity", "reasonableness" and "practicability"
(to quote words from the Convention and it's Regulations to
local shipping which carries 12 or more passengers.
Perusal of the Convention makes it clear that the proposal
to legislate for increasing the safety of life at sea has been
brought about by a disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean in
circumstances which to some extent cannot apply to vessels
trading locally in the Eastern seas and that measures for the
avoidance of calamities to trans-Atlantic shipping predominate
in the proposals. While it is, at the same time, sought to
improve safety universally from other risks, it appears to us
that those attending shipping in these waters are not such as
would of themselves have called for international action,
and we think it can be shown that the Eastern Seas are remark-
ably free from the accidents to reduce which this Convention
has been entered into.
One of the objects of making the Convention as inter-
national as possible is doubtless that measures adopted and
expenses incurred by some, as for radio-telegraph installation,
may not be taken advantage of by non-complying ships, and it
is noticeable that the names of two countries intimately
concerned with shipping passing in and out of Hongkong are
absent from the Convention Japanese and Chinese and that
lives principally at risk with which we are concerned are
Chinese.
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The risks which are covered by the Convention may be
STRANDINGS stated as ICEBERGS, DERELICTS, TYPHOONS, COLLISIONS,