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Any further communication should be addressed to--
The Secretary of the Admiralty,
Sir,
London, S. W.1.
quoting N.L.2995/37
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L.P. No. 8
Admiralty, S.W.1.
30th September, 1937
RECEIVED
2- OCT 1937
C. O. REGY
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 the Commander-in-
Chief, China, has proposed that within Hong Kong Harbour
a regulation should be made requiring harbour craft to keep
out of the way of large sea-going vessels; a similar
regulation is already in force within Singapore Harbour.
In addition the Commander-in-Chief proposes that the rule in
force at the Dockyard Ports of Portsmouth, Pembroke, Portland
Rosyth, Chatham and Sheerness, and Plymouth and Devonport,
and also at Malta, by which sea-going steam vessels and
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steam vessels towing, which, by reason of the crowded nature
of the channel or anchorage or from any other cause, find it
unsafe or impracticable to keep out of the way of other
vessels or boats, shall signify the same by four short blasts of the steam whistle or syren blown in rapid
succession and all harbour craft shall keep out of the way
of the vessel making this signal, provided that the latter
/is
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
BJ
S.W.1.