additional Rules and an Explan ation to H. M. Consul The British Chamber of Commerce has received from H. M. Consul-General a translation regulations relating to the closing of the port of Vladivostok, published on November 16 by ithe Commander of the Siberian Flotilla at that port and by the Commissar also a translation of a letter, dated November 118, from the Commander of the National Revolutionary Fleet of the Far Eastern Republic, Vladivostok, to H. M. Consul at? Vladivostok, amplifying the words; "the closing of the port" which occur in the -regulations.
The regulations are "Tu addition ito the temporary regulations with regard to entry of commercial vessels into the Port of Vladivostok, I hereby issue the following rules:—
~"l—Concerning the closing of the port.—In the event of the port being closed for all commercial vessels without exception, the following signals will be hoisted. on the guard-ship and a gun fired: In the daytime, two' cones apexes upwards and a_ cylinder between them. At night-time, three lanterns, two white and a red one between them. A similar signal will be hoisted on the signal post of the Naval Staff building. After the above-mentioned signals have been hoisted, no vessel or ship's boat shall be allowed to pass the line -Cape Kleta-Koshka-Tokarevskavo.
"9,—In order that the guardship may be distinguished by vessels, it will have at night-time lamps on the mast, 'a green one with a red one underneath it.'
The explanatory letter to H. M. 'Consul _states:—"Under the words the closing of the port' is meant the suspension of entry and departure of commercial vessels from the harbour on account of some extraordinary circum-
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