The Archive · 1905

STORM SIGNALS IN INDO-CHINA

On and after the Ist of January, 1906, a new cole of Storm Signals will come force at the semaphore stations on the coast of French Indo-China.

Tt is in all respects the same as the new cole which will on the same date be pnt into operation on the China Const at the signs] stations of the Chinese Imperinl Customs, at Hongkong, Shanghai, and Tsingtao, and which is already being used at Weihaiwei, At the semaphore stations on the ce-st of Franch Indo-China, however, Series 2 has been supplemented with one, and Series 6 with 11, new phrases of local interest.

At these stations, the weather signals with a white star flown from the masthead, and at nightly a red light exhibited from the same place.

The following are the 12 phrases added to the Sicawei Code:—

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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