Tokyo, Nov.
In order to minimize the disasters met frequently by merchant ships of Japan and foreign contri along the coast of the Japan Sea, especially off the South-East coast, which is one of the most difficult routes in the world, the Ministry of, Communications of the Japanese Government will, when the budget is, passed by the coming session of Parliament, appropriate a sum of, Yen 500,000 for the purpose of establishing three br.adcasting. stations for ships. These stations, will continuously send out certain, signals, by which the ships sailing. near the coast will be able to know their own positions exactly, thus ig the possible dangers of triking reefs or cliffs in case of dense fogs or rain storms—Teho.
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