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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,