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CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER IV.
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(i.)-Instructions to Section Commanders.
1. You will, during peace time, select, in conjunction with his C.O., an officer from the Infy. detachment detailed to your section to act as your Camp Adjutant.
2. On receipt of orders to mobilize you will send your Camp Adjutant to the C.O.O., to ascertain the time and place the reserve ammunition and field equipment for the troops of your Section will be issued, and to draw it. will then intimate this information to the Adjutants of all corps detailing troops to your Your Camp Adjutant Section.
3. Your Camp Adjutant will take over from the Officer i/e Transport, Victoria, I the transport required for the conveyance of this ammunition and field equip- ment. In the meantime regiments and units will have sent officers and escorts to assist in drawing this ammunition and equipment, and, when all is ready for despatch, your Camp Adjutant will tell off the escorts and accompany it and join you at your Section Headquarters, reporting any deficiency on arrival.
A list of this equipment is herewith attached, for the safe custody of which are held responsible.
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4. After instructing your Camp Adjutant in his duties, you will proceed with the first detachment of your troops to your Section Headquarters, and dispose them to their positions as they arrive. The arrangements for corps proceeding to their sections will be notified in Garrison Orders.
5. No requisitions for transport will be required from you.
6. The troops under your command will be rationed for the first day by their regiments. A ration sub-depôt of reserve supplies will be established in your section, but is only to be drawn upon in the event of rations, which will be sent daily, failing to reach you owing to any unforeseen accident. You will collect daily from Officers Commanding detachments in your command ration indents for two days' rations at a time, and submit them in bulk to the Officer i/c Supplies. They should reach him before 12 o'clock noon daily.
7. You will detail a guard over your ration sub-depôt and field magazine, which must be combined to save guard duty, relieving any guard you may find mounted and sending it back to its regimental headquarters, utilizing your empty transport for this purpose. If, however, it so happens that any men of the guard belong to the detach- ments of your section, you will retain them, sending back those only who do not.
8. On arrival of your troops at Section Headquarters, you will at once return all transport to the Officer i/e Transport, Victoria or Kowloon, as the case may be, detailing an escort over coolies to prevent their desertion. The coolies will be collected and returned in one or more batches, after they have completed their work, as seems desirable to you.
9. You will tell off clerks from the infantry of your command to each telephone within your section, except those in the forts, and you will take immediate steps to ensure that all the telephones in your section are in thorough working order, and see that your communication with the sections on your flanks and Fortress Headquarters is established. You will also detail signalling parties and assign their positions to
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10. You will detail working parties for carrying out the field works in your section, and tell off the necessary sapper supervision to each. You will satisfy yourself by personal inspection that these works are being pushed forward with the utmost vigour, reporting their progress daily to the C.S.O. until completed.
11. You will detail outposts for your section, both by day and by night. The troops under your command will get under arms an hour before daybreak daily, and remain so until the outposts and observation posts report all correct and secure.
12. You will establish an alarm post. Immediately on an alarm being given at night, all lights and fires are to be at once extinguished, and complete silence is to be
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