Will Aid Navigation of Ships Skirting Shore 'Two conical black-painted buoys were on August 7 placed at points slong the eighteen foot depth Hine opposite Pootung Point as.an Jald to the navigation' of ships pass-Ing up and down the river. These buoys, large and plainly visible by Jday, will have a red ight by night to guide mariners navigating on the river.
The purpose of the buoys, which Jare placed about 100 yards apart, is to eliable mariners to ascertain the depth of water on the Pootung side fand decide how close they can come to the shore. Heretofore they have been uncertain about the depth or ould only estimate how deep the water was at a certain time of Hie result was that ships, {0 avoid going aground, swung over towards the 'Shanghai' side of the river, [which occasionally hindered vessels The eighteen foot depth is the depth at. lowest low water. Cor sequently, pilots wilt estimate the rise of th that lowest low water, and knowing the draught of their vessels, estimate fat any time of the day or night, how close they can skirt the Pootung shore, should they of necessity have too close.
Tt was explained that for some fect "out from the shore the water is very shallow off Pootung Point before there is a sufficient depth to permit larger vessels to pass. The buoys will mark the boundary of this shallow water, The two buoys are to be known as the Pootung Spit Buoys. Maps af-{ected by the installation of the buoys are Chinese Admiralty Charts 505 and $09, 'A oral of 220 industrial and occupational accidents were reported fo the Shanghai Municipal Council during July, Of these twelve were fatal. The causes of 212 are known with' suflclent accuracy, and 113, have been the subject of investiga tion and instruction as*to prevention. Seven women were injured, fatally.
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