DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

40 MABITIME DANGER ZONES.
Route from St. Abbs Head to Stavanger may be used
as alternative.
British and allied vessels wishing to use northabout
route should apply to Customs, and neutral vessels must
apply for permission through their foreign representatives,
and failing such permission proceed southabout.
Sailing vessels from Atlantic to Scandinavian ports pass
westward of Ireland and St. Kilda, thence Faroe Islands to
destination, passing northward by fifty miles of Shetland
Islands.
SKINNER.
File No. 841.801/45.
Consul General Skinner to the Secretary of State.
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
London, May 19, 1915.
SIR: Referring to my telegram of May 17, setting forth
briefly the terms of a notice on navigation in the North
Sea and English Channel received from the Trade Division
of the Admiralty on that date, I have the honor to
enclose herewith, in duplicate, a full copy of the circular,
together with the Admiralty Notice to Mariners referred
to in the said circular.
I have, etc.,
ROBERT P. SKINNER.
[Inclosure.]
NAVIGATION IN THE NORTH SEA AND BRITISH HOME
WATERS.
The previous Notice on Navigation in the North Sea
and English Channel (dated 30th November, 1914; is
cancelled.
A.—GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Local Naval or Military Authorities may, at any
time when they consider it necessary, close a port during
certain hours without previous warning.
2. Before leaving ports in the United Kingdom Masters
of Vessels should be careful to obtain the latest Admiralty
Notices to Mariners. Attention is called to the Notice
on the inside cover of all Admiralty Sailing Directions
and their Supplements, and to the following Admiralty
Notices to Mariners and any subsequent ones that may
be issued:
No. 1738 of 13th November, 1914. River Medway.
No. 1812 of 10th December, 1914. Bristol Channel.
No. 45 of 15th January, 1915. Yarmouth Roads.
No. 137 of 22nd February, 1915. Irish Channel.
North Channel.
No. 165 of 8th March, 1915. River Humber Pilotage.
No. 228 of 26th March, 1915. Dover Strait. Light
Vessels established.
No. 239 of 27 th March, 1915. North Sea, River Thames,
and English Channel.
No. 258 of 3rd April, 1915. Portland Harbour.