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11. The Officer i/c Supplies will, if the troops have been mobilized, intimate to the officers commanding sections the strength of the guards he will require for the protection. of the stores at the sub-depôts.
In the case of the sub-depôts being formed prior to mobilization, he will indent on the C.S.O. for these guards, which will in this case be detailed from the troops allotted to the various sections.
12. Table F (iii) shows:-
(1) The supplies required for the European troops, the native troops, and the Chinese auxiliaries permanently employed.
(2.) The further quantities to be laid in, in case of expected war, to complete two
months' reserve.
(3.) The steps necessary for procuring such additional supplies, how and whence they are to be procured.
On mobilization the A.S.C. will ration troops at the sections, requisitions for rations for the whole of his section being furnished daily by Section Commanders, and not by corps individually. Such requisitions will, in the case of the sections on the island, be submitted to the Officer i/c Supplies, Victoria; and, in the case of sections on the main land and Stonecutters, to the Officer i/e Supplies, Kowloon.
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