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Three escorts will be told off to each portion of the defences as under
1. For Kits.
2. For Camp Equipment.
CHAPTER V (8).
3. Ammunition and Ordnance Stores.
(a.) Chin-lan-chu and Customs Pass (6.) Tate's Cairn and Crown Point (c.) Eagle's Nest
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12. O.C. companies will provide copies of issue orders to the Quartermaster- Sergeants, who will march the above escorts 1 and 2 to Whitfield Barracks to take over coolies and draw A.O.D. equipment. They will call at barracks for kits and then escort coolies to their respective posts, distributing kits and stores correctly to each detachment.
13. The ammunition will be issued and distributed under orders which will be furnished to the Master Gunner.
14. Two days' cooked or preserved rations will be issued to each man marching out and carried in haversack.
15. The 2·95-in. guns will move out at once to their posts with their guns on mules. (Mules have been sent to barracks by O.C.A.S.C.)
Ammunition coolies will take out 2.95-in. ammunition before any 100 rounds per gun.
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16. Movable armament detachments, other than 295-in., will break off and remain in barracks until orders are issued by the Staff Officer as to means available for moving the heavier guns.
17. All kits belonging to individuals, which are left in barracks, will be locked in kit boxes on which the name and number of the owner be already marked.
18. All field kit bags must be clearly marked with name, number, and position on mobilization of owner.
19. After seeing kits and camp equipment to their proper posts, Quartermaster- Sergeants will return to barracks.
N.B. Should orders to adopt war stage be received previously to the actual date of mobilization, all the arrangements herein detailed will, as far as possible, be carried out beforehand, and the companies fall in with kits packed at the specified hour.
Eastern Fire Command.
20. Northern boundary: The line of the Lau Tong Valley (exclusive). Southern boundary: The line drawn from the summit of Mount Parker (exclusive) to the village of Saiwan (inclusive).
(i.) Precautionary Stage.
21. The details as set forth in Chapter II, Table B (i), will go out at this stage.
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