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Period (iv) From the second "air raid warning" signal to the second.
raiders passed" signal.
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During these periods the following lighting restrictions will be enforced :---
Shipping and Watercraft.
During period (i Lighting must be reduced to the minimum and arrangements must be made so that all lights can be obscured or extinguished within three minutes.
Navigation and riding lights should remain alight.
During period () All lights including navigation and riding lights must be extinguished, and all movements of shipping and other craft must cease during this period.
N.B.-Should any ships, etc. be under way when the first "air raid warning" signal is sounded, they should proceed with navigation. lights alight to the nearest safe anchorage or jetty, and after either anchoring or securing, navigation and riding lights must be extinguished.
During period (iii) Movements of shipping may be resumed but naviga- tion and riding lights must be shown. All other lights must either be obscured or extinguished, or arrangements made so that they can with certainty be either extinguished or obscured within three minutes.
During period (iv) Movements of shipping will be permitted, but only navigation and riding lights must be shown. All other lights must be either extinguished or obscured.
HONG KONG, 21st March, 1940.
No. 85/1940.
DERELICT.
Position. Latitude 24° 01' N., Longitude 118° 13′ E. (approx.).
Details.-Wreckage about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide, considered to be part of a junk, was reported as being in the above position at 0500 hours G.M.T. on the 22nd March, 1940.
Authority-Master of the S.S. "President Adams".
HONG KONG, 26th March, 1940.
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