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The use of Morse signals is regulated by the Code appearing in Article III, as well as 

 by Article IV of the Regulations annexed hereto. 



Article 12. 



The use of the international distress signals for any other purpose than that of signals 

 of distress is prohibited on every vessel. 



The use of private signals which are liable to be mistaken for the international distress 

 signals is prohibited on every vessel. 



Article 13. 



The selection of the routes across the North Atlantic in both directions is left to the 

 responsibility of the steamship companies. Nevertheless the High Contracting Parties un- 

 dertake to impose on these companies the obligation to give public notice of the regular 

 routes which they propose their vessels should follow, and of any changes which they make 

 in them. 



The High Contracting Parties undertake, further, to use their influence to induce the 

 owners of all vessels crossing the Atlantic to follow as far as possible the routes adopted by 

 the principal companies. 



Article 14. 



The High Contracting Parties undertake to use all diligence to obtain from the Gov- 

 ernments which are not parties to this Convention their agreement to the revision of the 

 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea as indicated below. 



(A) The Regulations shall be completed or revised in regard to the following points: 



( 1 ) The second white light. 



(2) The stern light. 



(3) A day signal for motor vessels. 



(4) A sound signal for a vessel towed. 



(5) The prohibition of signals similar to distress signals. 



(B) Articles 2, 10, 14, 15, 31 of the said Regulations shall be amended in accordance 

 with the following provisions: 



Article 2. The second white mast-head light to be compulsory. 



Article 10. A permanent fixed stern light to be compulsory. 



Article 14. A special day signal to be compulsory for motor vessels. 



Article 15. A special sound signal to be established for use by a vessel in tow, or if the 

 tow is composed of several vessels by the last vessel of the tow. 



Article 31. Article 31 to be modified in the following manner: Add to the lists of both 

 day and night signals the international radiotelegraph distress signal. 



Article 15. 



The Governments of the High Contracting Parties undertake to maintain, or, if it is 

 necessary, to adopt, measures for the purpose of insuring that, from the point of view of 

 safety of life at sea, the vessels defined in Article 2 shall be sufficiently and efficiently 

 manned. 



