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(iii) Telephone and Signalling Communications.
13. By Telephone-
The circuits in the fortress are classified as follows :—
(a.) Military telephone exchange system, to which are connected the Fortress and Section Commanders, Officers of Staff and Departmental Officers, barracks, hospitals, forts, and infantry posts. The details of the system are shown in diagram, Chapter III (EEE).
(b.) Royal Artillery Command Lines, which include
(1.) Direct telephone circuits from the Fire Commander to his subordinates,
and so on through the chain of command.
(2.) Lines for P.F. working range and other dials.
(c.) R.E. Command Lines consist of lines from E.L. directing stations to E.L. emplacements, engine rooms, &c.
(d.) Alarm Circuits, for alarming the look-out posts and night firing batteries. (e.) Messages can also be transmitted to the Civil Exchange system from the Central Military Exchange.
14. In all sections beyond the fixed telephone posts in the lines of defence, further communication is obtained by visual signalling.
There is a reserve consisting of subordinates in the Colonial Civil Departments, a list of whom is kept up for this purpose, who may possibly replace a proportion of
soldiers.
Assistant Colonial Secretary.
Attorney General.
Bacteriological Institute.
Colonial Secretary.
Chief Clerk, C.S.Ö.
Land Office.
Director of Education.
Queen's College.
Director of Public Works.
Senior Executive Engineer.
Government Telephone System.
(a.) EXCHANGE AT THE C.S. OFFICE.
Exchange at the Central Police Station—
Aberdeen Police Station.
Colonial Secretary's Office. Central Police Station (Local). Capt. Superintendent of Police.
Capt. Superintendent of Police (Residence,
The Peak).
Chief Detective Inspector's Office (C.R.S.). Detective Department, Tai Ping Shan. Disinfecting Station Office (Bonham Road),
Inspector's Quarters.
Eastern District Sanitary Board Office. Government House.
Magistracy.
Motor House, No. 1 (Garden Road), (Water-
works)-
No. 4 Motor House,
Arbuthnot Road Motor House.
Bonham Road Motor House.
Workshop, Wanchai.
Water Luspector's Quarters at Peak.
Pokfulum Reservoir.
P.W.D. Water Department.
West Point Filter Beds.
Albany Filter Beds.
Tytam Reservoir-
Pumping Station, Tytam Tuk.
Police Station, No. 2-
No. 1 Police Station. Bay View Police Station.
No. 5 Police Station.
Police Station, No. 5 (Fire Brigade)—
Government Civil Hospital.
No. 7 Police Station.
No. 2 Police Station.
Clock Tower.
Police Station, No. 6 (The Peak)---
Mount Gough Police Station.
Pukfolum Police Station.
Plantation Gap Fire Alarm. Magazine Gap Fire Alarm. Mount Kellet Gap Fire Alarm. Police Station, No. 7—
Kennedy Town Police Station. No. 5 Police Station.
Police Station, No. 8—
Two telephones, E. and W. Quarters. Public Mortuary, Sanitary Department-
Central P.S. Exchange.
H.I.D. Office. Sauitary ditto.
Medical Officer of Health. Stanley Police Station. Shau-ki-wan Police Station-
Tsat Tsai Maui Police Station. Government printers. Government Civil Hospital- Kennedy Town Hospital. Tung Wah Hospital. Maternity Hospital. Superintendent's Quarters.
Assistant Superintendent's Quarters. Sisters' Quarters.
Matron's Quarters. Lunatic Asylum. No. 5 Police Station. Government House.
Mountain Lodge. Harbour Office-
Harbour Master. Assistant Harbour Master. Correspondence Branch.
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