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be used as food by man. He will be prepared to give effect to any Proclamation that may be issued under the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, in the matter of dispersing riotous assemblies, preventing the possession or carriage of arms, and dealing with unlawful combinations to stop trade.
He will be prepared to give effect to any order that may be issued in pursuance of the Proclamation of the Order in Council of the 26th October, 1896, with regard to:--
(i.) The deportation of aliens or undesirable persons.
(ii.) The enforcement of labour.
(iii) The acquisition for Government purposes of means of transport, buildings, supplies, &c.
(iv.) The regulation of food prices.
(v.) The control of the trade in beer, wine, and spirits.
7. He will provide for watching the reservoirs at Pokfulum, Aberdeen, and Tytam against damage by ill-disposed persons at night, and will maintain a close supervision over the civil population in Stanley and Aberdeen.
8. He will arrange for an observation post to be established from the police station at Sai Kung on the Ma On Shan Ridge to watch for and report to the Central Station, the
presence of any unknown vessels in Mirs Bay or Tolo Harbour.
9. He will arrange for the shores of the New Territories outside the harbour and for the islands to be watched by the three police launches.
10. He will give orders to all police stations for reports to be made to the Central station of any movements of ships of war or of suspicious vessels outside the harbour, and of any landing, or attempted landing, by armed parties.
11. He will give orders for the police in the New Territories to keep a watch at the points where roads cross into Chinese territory between the heads of Deep Bay and Starling Inlet, and to report persons constantly passing to and fro whose business is unknown. If China is hostile, patrols will be pushed out beyond the frontier to watch the movements of the population, and to search for Proclamations. Special attention will be paid to the town of Sham Chun.
12. He will communicate to the Major, General Staff, at the Headquarter Office by | telephone or messenger any information he may receive under the arrangements detailed in the last five paragraphs.
13. He will report to the Colonial Secretary when each separate action required of him on mobilization, according to the foregoing instructions, is completed and sub- sequently from time to time as may be necessary with regard to the action required of him while the fortress remains mobilized.
(6.)—Action by Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Cure of Sick and Wounded.
I 1. Provision is required to be made for 750 naval and 674 military sick and wounded in time of war. The increased sickness or number of casualties among the civil population at such time will probably not be considerable.
2. The Colonial Government will provide accommodation for 400 out of the 1,000 anticipated naval sick and wounded-
(1.) In a Mat-shed Annex, to be constructed for 200 beds by the Public Works Department in the compound of the Government Civil Hospital;
(2.) At the Peak Hotel, of which possession will be taken by the Colonial Secretary under section 7 of the Order of the late Queen in Council of the 26th October, 1896, and which would be altered as might be required by the Public Works Department, and fitted with 200 beds for convalescents and cases that were not serious.
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