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11. All signal stations are manned (Diagram of Signal Connection, Table F, Chapter III).
Section and Fire Commanders are responsible for providing tents for the signallers in their commands.
12. All electric lights are manned.
(iii.) War Stage.
13. On the war stage being declared, Section and Fire Commanders will send officers with armed parties and the necessary transport to the ordnance stores to take over equipment, &c., in accordance with Table J (ii), Chapter III.
14. Requisitions for ordnance stores and transport are unnecessary.
15. The arrangements for the troops proceeding to their mobilization positions will be notified in Administrative Staff Orders.
Troops proceeding to their mobilization positions will be rationed for two days by their units.
16. Ration arrangements will be the same as in the precautionary stage, vide paragraph 9 of this chapter.
17. A ration sub-depôt (reserve supplies) will be established in each section and fire command, but these supplies are only to be drawn upon in the event of rations which it is proposed to send out daily (weekly for Indian troops on the island) failing to arrive.
18. All transport is to be sent back to the Officer i/c Transport, Victoria or Kowloon, as the case may be, as soon as it has reached its destination. It will be necessary to detail escorts over coolies to prevent their desertion.
19. The detail of work set forth in Table E (ii), Chapter III, which was commenced on the precautionary stage, will be continued if not completed.
The Chief Engineer will arrange for any additional labour that may be necessary.
20. All troops will get under arms daily one hour before daybreak, and remain so until the outposts report all is correct.
On an
21. Alarm posts will be established in each section and fire command. alarm being signalled, fires and all unnecessary lights are to be at once extinguished and silence maintained.
22. Section and Fire Commanders will send a daily state of their command to the D. A.A. and Q.M.G.
23. Section and Fire Commanders will report at once by telephone (Fire Com- manders through C.R.A.) to the General Staff Officer when all the arrangements are complete, the troops in position, and communication established.
24. For the arrangements for the issue of small arm and gun ammunition, see Chapter V (1), paragraphs 5 and 14.
25. Section and Fire Commanders will prepare and keep for the benefit of their successors sketches of various detached camping grounds and notes of any points of value or interest which do not appear in the Defence Scheme. Such notes and sketches, if carefully compiled, will be of very great value to an officer who is new to the country.
Orders for Island Section Commander.
26. The area of your command and sub-divisions, and dispositions for meeting an attack, are fully laid down in (D) (ii) (b) of Chapter II.
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