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and Singapore. The local warnings are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. "Tamar", Green Island, and the Godown Company, Kowloon. For vessels taking shelter in Kowloon Bay and to the West of Stonecutters Island, they are also repeated at Lyemun by the military authorities, and at Lai-Chi-Kok by the Standard Oil Company.
The local night signals were transferred from the Water Police Station to the tower of the Kowloon Railway Station in the month of May.
For the benefit of native craft and passing ocean vessels, a cone is exhibited at several outlying stations during the time that any of the above Day Signals are displayed in the Harbour, to indicate that there is depression somewhere in the China Sea, and that Typhoon Warning is displayed in the Harbour.
In the following table are given the number of hours the local signals were hoisted in each of the years 1912-1916:
Year Red Signals. Number of hours. Black Signals. Number of hours. Bombs. Number of times fired. 1912 151 164 1913 146 189 I 1914 146 178 1915 64 120 1916 201 70The red signals indicate that the centre of the typhoon is believed to be more than 300 miles distant, and the black less than 300 miles. Three bombs fired at intervals of 10 seconds indicate that winds of typhoon force are anticipated.
The figures in the above table include the number of hours that night signals, corresponding to the red and black day signals, were hoisted.
VI.-METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FROM SHIPS, TREATY PORTS, &C.
Logs received. In addition to meteorological registers kept at about 40 stations in China, meteorological logs were received from 158 ships operating in the Far East. These logs, representing 7,456 days' observations, have been utilised for determining typhoon tracks and for those squares of the proposed Pilot Charts for which information is lacking. The corresponding figures for the year 1915 were 163 and 9,254.