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NOTICES TO MARINERS.

No. 5 of 1926.

CEYLON-EAST COAST.

Temporary alteration to Batticaloa Light--Latitude 7° 45' N., Longitude 81° 41′ E.

On or about 17th May, 1926, Batticaloa Light will be temporarily altered in character from Gp-Occ-White to Fixed White. The temporary light will have a visibility of about 10 miles in clear weather. Further Notice will be given when the normal character and visibility is resumed.

Admiralty charts affected - No. 2031 Ceylon East Coast from 7° 20′ N. to Point

Pedro.

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Publication-Admiralty List of Lights--No. 70 Bay of Bengal, Part VI 1924,

page 59.

JAMES G. FRASER, Captain, R.N.,

Master Attendant.

MASTER ATTENDANT'S OFFICE,

COLOMBO, 8th May, 1926.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

No. 3 of 1926.

Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Representative of the Foreign Consular Body have declared the Port of Pakhoi to be infected with epidemic bubonic plague.

All vessels arriving therefrom either at Canton or Whampoa on and after this date are to be governed by the Sanitary Regulations for the Port of Canton with two modi- fications as noted below.

CANTON, 15th May, 1926.

The following temporary modifications are to be noted:

(1.) Steamers arriving from Pakhoi bound for Whampoa need not anchor at the Tide Pole Quarantine Anchorage but may proceed to Whampoa. On their arrival there they will be boarded by the Customs Boarding Officer, who will demand a statement in writing from the Captain of the vessel concerned as to whether there were any deaths on board after leaving. Pakhoi and whether there are or were any cases of sickness. If the Captain's report is such as to arouse suspicion in the minds of the Customs Authorities at Whampoa, he is to be ordered to hoist the Quarantine Flag and to refrain from any communication with the shore until the arrival of the Canton Port Medical Officer who will be sent for at once by the Customs. If a vessel anchors at Whampoa and is not regarded as a suspect she must nevertheless be regularly inspected at Canton by the Port Officer if she subsequently proceeds there.

(2.) Rule 2 under Special Regulations A is to be altered to read that the Canton

Quarantine Anchorage shall be immediately below Macao Fort.

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