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Atoiya-misaki Lighthouse.
Power: --100,000 candles.
Visible distance :--213 nautical miles in clear night.
BARON KENJIRO DEN, Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, July 2nd, 1917.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 484.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
Yangtze River South Channel Entrance.
WRECK OF S.S. SHAOHSING.
NOTICE is hereby given that the wreck of the S.S. Shaohsing lies sunk in the fairway of the Southi Channel Entrance to the Yangtze in the following position :---
From the wreck Tungsha Light-vessel is reported to bear N. 45° W. (true), dis-
tant 2 miles.
The wreck, which lies across the fairway, is covered, but the masts and funnel
are showing.
A wreck light-vessel, showing a red flag by day and a red light above a white one by night, will be placed in position as soon as possible about 3 cables to the south-eastward of the wreck.
Vessels should pass to the southward of the wreck light-vessel.
W. FERD. TYLER,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 9th July, 1917.
Coast Inspector.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 485.
CHINA SEA.
WENCHOW DISTRICT - WENCHOW RIVER.
Chitu Island Crossing Beacons Moved.
NOTICE is hereby given that, owing to alterations in the channel, the Crossing Beacons, Chitu Island, Wenchow River, have been moved 340 feet to the eastward of their former position. These Beacons in line now lead through the deepest water on the Crossing.
Coast Inspector's ÖFFICE,
Shanghai, 18th July, 1917.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 486.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT-YANGTZE RIVER.
Confucius Channel--North-Western Entrance.
Decreased Depths Found Caution.
NOTICE is hereby given that decreased depths have been found at the north-western entrance to the Confucius Channel, Yangtze River, between the Centaur Upper and the Acteon Shoal Upper Buoys. The least depth so far recorded has been 24 feet at low water of spring tides.
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