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6. No requisitions for water transport or coolies will be required, as the Officer i/c] Transport has information of the amount required.
7. All baggage and stores left behind will be stored by companies in the Quarter- master's Stores, and a guard of 1 n.c.o. and 6 men, which will also act as regimental quarter-guard, mounted over them.
8. All other regimental guards will be withdrawn, and will join their companies. 9. All guards on duty in the forts will be relieved by the Royal Artillery, and will immediately on relief join their companies, the R.A. launches being utilized for this purpose.
The Quartermaster will be so good as to indent on the Officer i/c Transport, Kowloon, for the necessary transport for their move.
10. The mules at present with the regiment will be handed over by the Transport Officer to the O.C. No. VI Section.
11. Bandsmen and all men on regimental employ will at once join their companies,
I the rifles and accoutrements of men sick in hospital being issued to bandsmen, under company arrangements.
12. Cooks, bhisties, and sweepers will join their companies.
13. The Os.C. Nos. 1 and 2 detachments will report their arrival at the headquarters of their Section of Defence to the Os.C. their sections, and take their orders as to their disposal.
14. Indents for rations will be submitted daily by 10 A.M., by the Os.C. Nos. 1 and 2 detachments to the Os.C. their Sections of the Defence, and by No. 4 double co. Commanders to the Officer i/c Supplies, Kowloon.
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15. All coolies and water transport will be returned on completion of their work by Os.C. detachments to the Camp Adjutants of their Sections of Defence, escorts being furnished to insure that no coolies desert.
16. The trained signallers of the regiment are placed at the disposal of the Brigade Signalling Officer, who will detail them to Sections of the Defence. They should be equipped for service in the field, under the conditions detailed above.
17. A guard of 2 havaldars, 2 naiks, 1 bugler, and 16 Sepoys, to be furnished by Co., will at once proceed to the Kowloon Docks, to assist the dock autho- rities in the protection of the docks. The senior havaldar will report his arrival to the dock manager or his representative.
This guard will remain permanently at the docks, will be rationed for two days, and be issued with 200 rounds of ball ammunition per rifle.
This guard should comprise one or two men who can speak English.
No camp equipage need be sent, as the guard will be quartered in one of the dock buildings.
(v.)—No. 2 Indian Infantry Regiment.
of to-day's date, No. 1 double o'clock (to-morrow), and proceed
1. In accordance with Garrison Order No. company with 1 Maxim, under the command of will parade in front of its barrack rooms at by route march and launch to Wong-nei-Cheong Gap, the headquarters of the Section of Defence to which it has been allotted. It will embark at the Kowloon Police Pier
o'clock, and disembark at Jardine's Wharf.
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2. No. 2 double company with 1 Maxim, under the command of
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will parade in front of its barrack rooms at the same hour, and proceed by route march and launch to Lyemun and Devil's Peak, the Section of the Defence to which it has been allotted. It will embark at the Kowloon Police Pier at
o'clock, and disembark at the Sugar Refining Company's Wharf at Quarry Bay.
Nos. 3 and 4 double companies will remain at headquarters and form part of the Reserve.
Dress Marching order, khaki, water-bottles filled, and one day's cooked rations in haversacks.
5,500 rounds of ball ammunition per Maxim gun, 100 rounds per rifle, and carbine, to be issued by the Quartermaster, who will also at once issue all mobilization equip- ment on regimental charge proportionately to all companies.
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