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(iii.) Any arrangements additional to (ii) made necessary by the laying out of the minefields.
The Harbour-Master is in all cases the authority for carrying out these regulations, under the orders of the Governor, but in concert with the Military authorities.
Arrangements necessary to keep a clear Field of Fire.
2. No vessels are to moor or anchor (i) west of lines drawn from the pier at West Point to the south-east corner of Stonecutters, and from a military buoy off the north- east pier, Stonecutters, in a northerly direction to the mainland, or (ii) east of a line drawn across the west side of the Lyemun Pass with the following exceptions: Vessels and junks may, in daytime, come alongside and work at any of the wharfs west of West Point pier as far as Kennedy Town Hospital, but must move away by sunset.
Small launches and junks may lie at the watering pier, or in the bay at Li-chi-kok, or in the north and east of Junk Bay, or north of Junk Island.
A quarantine anchorage must be selected instead of the one west of Stonecutters.
Arrangements for Regulating Traffic into the Harbour and for enforcing order in the Harbour when the Traffic Regulations are in force.
3. The regulation of traffic is governed by "Instructions for the Examination Service, &c.," issued April, 1902.
The Harbour-Master will be the Chief Examining Officer, and is responsible for the selection of examining officers to assist, and for the necessary launches with their
crews.
The Military authorities will provide the special stores required.
The following are the examination services to be provided for :--
In the Lyemun entrance one service, two launches relieving one another.
In the Sulphur Channel one service, two launches relieving one another.
In the channel north of Stonecutters one service, two launches for examining officers, relieving one another, and two launches as assistants to examining officers for diverting junk traffic to the north of Stonecutters.
The Channel between Stonecutters and Green Island will be closed to all traffic. The examination line at the western entrance is from the western-most gun
of Elliott Battery (above Belcher) to a buoy marked white and green stripes off the Kellett Bank, and then to the western-most gun in South Shore Battery, Stonecutters. This buoy is at the intersection of a line from Elliott Battery to a prominent hill on the south-west of Chung Hue and of a line from South Shore Battery to the flagstaff on Green Island.
North of Stonecutters, the line goes from a point near the barracks to a rock on the mainland.
At the eastern entrance the line goes from the easternmost gun of Pak-sha-wan Battery to the north-east corner of the pass.
The examination grounds are in all cases the areas immediately outside the examination lines.
The supporting batteries are:-
No. I Section.--In North Channel, two guns of the movable armament, working with the examination service for the North Channel.
In south side of Stonecutters, South Shore Battery. tion service, and its duty is limited to stopping ships from between Green Island and Stonecutters.
This battery has no examina- crossing the examination line
No. Il Section.-Elliott Battery, working with the examination service in the Sulphur Channel.
No. V Section.-Pak-sha-wan Battery, working with the examination service in Junk Bay.
The examination grounds being in all cases sheltered, it is not anticipated that the examining vessels will have to withdraw except in weather which would make all examination impossible and the movement even of large ships very difficult.
Additional arrangements necessary when Minefields are laid out.
4. When minefields are laid out all traffic in and out of the harbour must pass only by the authorized" friendly channels" through the mine defences.
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