Question of Foreigners in Service Raised Nanking, Feb. 10 The question of edition "of foreign pilotage rights in! Chinese waters was brought up again yestorday when the newly-organized tional Seamen's: Association petitioned to the Ministry of Communieations asking for the immediate abrogation of the rights enjoyed by foreigners.
Declaring that alt maritime nations of the world reserve pilotage rights to their own nations. the Seamen's Association in their petition urged that steps should immediately taken to revise the existing regulations governing coastal and inland piloting.
Interviewed by press. representa tives to-day, a spokesman of the 'Ministry of Communteations declared that China has' the power to reserve piloting rights to her own nationals, The petition of the Seamen's Associntion, he revealed, ig receiving the serious attention of the authorities.
The spokesman recalled that early 1927" the National Government opened a school in Shanghai for the training of Chinese pilots to replace foreigners. "Furthermore, in 1033 a. set of provisional regulations were enacted by the Government requiring the establishment of a pilotage bureau, jointly by the Ministries of Communications, Fintance, and Navy. in every treaty port AIL these steps, he explained, were taken with @'-view eventually to take over pilotage rights from foreigners.—Central News.
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