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The Secretary,
Admiralty, Whitehall,
Loudon, S.W. 1.
Sir
to Under Secretary Stats 4.
со 64465 Admiralty, S. W. 1,
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10th November
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With reference to your letter of 8th October, No. 54579/19 forwarding copy of correspondence with regard to the transmission of meteorological messages to and from the Wireless Station at Cape d'Aguilar, HongKong, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that they have no serious objection to the continua- tion of the W/T arrangements already made pending the revision of international arrangements on the subject of meteorological bulletins, data messages and time signals now in course of preparation, At the same time Their Lordships consider that the circular revised by the Director of the Royal Observatory is open to the following criticism :-
(a) In the first place, a circular from Marconi's
International Marine Communication Company to its operators is considered to be an incorrect method of promulgating the particulars of weather bulletins and time signals. By Article 5 para.2 (8) of the International Service Regulations, these particulars should be given in the Berne List. They are also reproduced in the Sailing Directions. view of the Berne List not having been kept up to date
Moreover, in during the war, a summary of the information in a handy form for the Master and Operator, has heen recently published in the form of Notices to Mariners, which are generally translated by other maritime countries and thus reach ships other than those carrying Marconi operators. The Circular should therefore, it is felt, be confined to instructions as to how ships should send data messages to Cape d'Aguilar (paras.3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 of the details). (b) Thẻ transmission at fixed times of meteorological weather bulletins to ships would be much better if sent on 2000 metres spark by Stonecutters, instead of on 1000 metres by D'Aguilar, observing that a 5 k.w. station on 1000 metres would be unlikely to be readable by day further than 600 miles, while the range from Stonecutters, using 30 k.w. should be upwards of 1000 miles.
(c) Times in paras. 1,3 & 8 should be expressed in
G.M.T. (civil time) and NOT in local time. Further, times in para.l do not fall within the periods of watch for ships with one operator (See G.P.O. circular No.38882/19 of 31.5.19). Times should be chosen in accordance with Art.45 Provisional amendments to International Service Regulations (See Appendix I Protocolea EU-F-GB-I 15th April and 25th August 1919).
(d) In para. 5, the sentence "the greatest care.....shall be repeated" is considered undesirable, as it
presupposes.....
The Under Secretary, of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
L.P.-No. 8.