CO129-564-13 Hong Kong Harbour- regulation of traffic 30-9-1937 - 24-1-1938 — Page 8

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Any further communication should be addressed to--

The Secretary of the Admiralty,

Sir,

London, S. W.1.

quoting N.L.2995/37

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53853

L.P. No. 8

Admiralty, S.W.1.

30th September, 1937

RECEIVED

2- OCT 1937

C. O. REGY

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the

Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Commander-in-

Chief, China, has proposed that within Hong Kong Harbour

a regulation should be made requiring harbour craft to keep

out of the way of large sea-going vessels; a similar

regulation is already in force within Singapore Harbour.

In addition the Commander-in-Chief proposes that the rule in

force at the Dockyard Ports of Portsmouth, Pembroke, Portland

Rosyth, Chatham and Sheerness, and Plymouth and Devonport,

and also at Malta, by which sea-going steam vessels and

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steam vessels towing, which, by reason of the crowded nature

of the channel or anchorage or from any other cause, find it

unsafe or impracticable to keep out of the way of other

vessels or boats, shall signify the same by four short blasts of the steam whistle or syren blown in rapid

succession and all harbour craft shall keep out of the way

of the vessel making this signal, provided that the latter

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The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

BJ

S.W.1.