SAFETY AT SEA.
■ 8 THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
A DRAFT CONVENTION.
By Teleerapn-Prosa Association- CoD.vricht London, January 21. The conference on safety of 'life at sea has concluded.
lhe delegates signed, tho draft of the convention establishing under the United States control an international service for ice observation, patrol, and also the destruction of derelicts in the North Atlantic. The.conference ruled that it would be prudent that the decisions as seamanship and speed embodied in the Titanic judgment ehould bo internationally affirmed. The recommendations published - last month wens' confirmed; also measures for the prevention and detection of fire. All merchantmen carrying fifty passengers and upwards must have installed wireless apparatus of a minimum range of.a hundred miles.
_Mr. Sydney Buxton (President of the Board of Trade) announced that a further International Conference to be held would deal with the loadiine and kindred subjects.
(Rec. January 22, 0.30 a.m.).
London, January 21. Britain pays 30 per cent, of the cost, Germany and France 15 per cent, each, and the balance ;;;is idivided amongst tile other Porters, of keeping up an iceberg patrol in the Atlantic, and of the destruction of derelicts.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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