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Enclosure /

Compulsory Wireless Telegraphy on British chips on the China Coast.

▲ conference was held at Shanghai on 24th April

1924 at which were present

Sir Skinner Turner, Judge of His Vajesty's Supreme

Court for China,

Mr. J. H. Kemp, Attorney General, Hongkong,

Mr. S. Barton, His Majesty's Consul-General and

Registrar of Shipping, Shanghai,

Mr. W. G. Sheppard, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson a

Company, Limited,

Mr. T. H. R. Shaw, of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.

Messrs. Sheppard and Shaw stated that the Indo- China Steam Navigation Company and the China Navigati Company were already preparing to instal wireless on their coastal steamers plying on routes there larg numbers of passengers were carried and had establishe at Hongkong a school for training Chinese British sut

as operators.

Reference was made to the correɛ.

dence which had passed between the Harbour Master and the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce in 1921 on the subje of the adoption at Hongkong of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraph) Act 1919 and Messrs, Sheppard ar

Shaw stated that in regard to coasting vessels runnin

out of Shanghai and other China ports their views wer

agreement with those expressed by the Hongkong Chambe

They objected to the adoption of the provisions

the 1919 Act for the following reasons:- (1) The classification of ships on the basis of the

nature of the voyage for the purpose of determin

the type of apparatus and number of operators to

carried was not suited to the peculiar condition

prevailing on the China Coast.

(ii) The expense involved in the employment of white

opera

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