The French have built a lighthouse on Pattie Island in the otherwise uninhabited Paracel Islands, about 170 miles south-east of Hainan. The light is visible for 12 miles, and will aid shipping between Singapore and Saigon and Heng Kong.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 6
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