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Telegrams: "SHIPMINDER, VIC, LONDON," TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 9700. EXT.

Any further communication on this

subject should be addressed to ¦--

The Assistant Secretary.f

Mercantile Marine Department,

Board of Trade,

St. James' Park,

London, S.W. 1,

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M.12984/21.

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MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

ST. JAMES' PArk, S.W. 1.

17th August,1921.

Gentlemen,

With reference to the application of Messrs. John Swire and Sons Limited for exemption of their ships trading in Indo-China Waters from the obligatione imposed by the Merchant Shipping (7ireless Telegraphy) Aet, 1819, with which application you associated yourselves. I am directed by the Board of Trade to state that this question has been referred to the Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee and that the Committee, after full consideration of the ciroumsteners and having heard evidence from Messrs. Smire and Sons representative, were unable to recommend that British ships treding in Indo-China Waters, and not touching a port in the United Kingdom, should be relieved of the obligatione imposed by the Act.

The Board have decided to accept the Advisory Committee's recommendation and I am therefore to request that you will be so good as to take such steps as may be necessary with a view to compliance with the Act in respect of your vessels employed in Indo-Chine letere.

I am, Gentlemen,

Your obedient Servant,

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Messrs. The Indo-China Steam

Navigation Company, Limited

3. Lombard Street,

B.C.3.