CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 327

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November 19th," 1909.

The institution of an observation station with a

Wireless Telegraph Installation on Pratas Island would

be of great advantage during the typhoon season for the forecasting of storms in the southern portions of the China Seas, and a protection to all shipping frequent- ing the Southern coasts of China.

At present Canton, Swatow and other neighbouring ports of China are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hongkong Observatory, an institution supported by the Hongkong Government at great expense, which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese Authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs,

and

generally by its published warnings to all shipping both foreign and native frequenting the Southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation

stations with which it is in communication.

It is highly desirable in the interests of naviga-

tion that the Chinese Government should on their side

establish