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CHAPTER II (C) and (D).
(c.) Military Flag Signalling.
The staff available for this purpose will be the regimental signallers of the Infantry regiments in garrison.
These will be employed, as far as possible, in the sections with their own regiments. The R.A. signallers will be required for R.A. purposes. The posts to be occupied are as follows:-
No. I Section
No. II Section ..
None.
Mount Davis. High West. Mount Austin.
Communicating at Mount Austin with the command telephone system.
No. III Section..
Above Deep Water Bay. 1 Sanitarium.
Communicating at the Sanitarium with the command telephone system.
No. IV Section ..
Violet Hill. Wong-Nei-Cheong.
Communicating at Wong-Nei-Cheong with the command telephone system.
No. V Section
Pottinger Peak. Sywan.
Lyemun Barracks. Haiwan.
Communicating at Lyemun Barracks with the command telephone system.
(Eagle's Nest.
Golden Hill.
No. VI Section..
Whitfield Barracks.
Shatin Pass.
Kowloon City.
Hebe Hill.
[Customs Pass.
Communicating at Kowloon City, Customs Pass, and Whitfield Barracks with the
command telephone system.
(D.)-Modes of Meeting various Attacks.
(i.) Attack from the Sea.
1. East or West Entrance.---Attacks on the eastern or western entrances will be met by the guns of the forts, and by the submarine mines, supplemented by the sectional infantry, and in the case of an eastern attack by the Brennan torpedo.
2. Landing on East.-If an attack on the eastern entrance is supplemented by a landing of troops in Sywan Bay or on the Eastern Coast, the sectional troops can be reinforced by the whole of the Victoria and Kowloon Reserves, which might all be brought to the spot in about two hours.
3. Landing on West.-An attack on the western entrance might be supplemented by an attempted landing of troops in Sandy Bay and Taihowan and Kellet Bays. This would be met in the first instance by the troops of No. II Section present on the spot. These would be quickly reinforced by the infantry companies or the Volunteers from the Peak Section, and the Reserve, which would move either by the main road by Belchers to Sandy Bay by the Jubilee Road, or by Victoria Gap to Pokfulum, as might be required.
4. Landing on Stonecutters.-An attack on the western entrance might be supple- mented by an attempted landing on Stonecutters Island. This would be met by the infantry and movable armament of the Section. A reinforcement might be quickly obtained from the Reserve.
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