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APPENDIX.

REVISED RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF SEA TRAFFIC AT HONG KONG IN TIME OF WAR.

(Drawn up by Local Defence Committee as part of the Defence Scheme, 1894, and

communicated in C.O. letter, Hong Kong, 9207, of 29th May, 1894.)

1. Acting under the directions of the Senior Naval Officer, the Harbour-master, with the assistance of a sufficient number of examining launches, will be responsible for regulating the admission of ships of all kinds under the following restrictions.

2. Junks and other sailing craft of native build will at night anchor in Aldrich Bay or in the red sector of Green Island light, and will not proceed beyond them. By day they will be permitted to enter by all the harbour entrances, subject only to a general super- vision of them by the Harbour-master's staff.

3. All steam-vessels and ships will be made to bring-to for examination outside Lyemun Pass if entering from the east, or in Belcher's Bay if coming from the west, and will not cross the entrance to Lyemun Pass on the east, and on the west the north and south line, which touches the western point of Stonecutter's Island, until provided by the Harbour-master with the permissory signal, and with either a pilot or full instructions as to the passage to be taken through the mine-fields. All such ships coming from the west will enter by the Sulphur Channel.

4. The permissory signal will consist of flags by day and coloured lamps by night, to be altered from day to day.

5. Any steam-vessels or ships attempting to pass the lines above indicated without showing the permissory signal will be first warned by firing a shot across the bows. If this is insufficient, she is to be treated as an enemy both by batteries and mines without further question.

6. No steam-vessel or ship to leave the harbour without receiving a pilot or instruc- tions from the Harbour-master for its guidance through the mine-fields.

PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE BY T. HARRISON,-6/6/94.

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