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You will arrange to issue on parade those necessary articles of mobilization equipment held on charge at various batteries for the use of the guards, &c.
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4. Supply of Equipment, Rations, &c., by Q.M.S. You will also arrange for rations to be sent out daily to Pinewood, High West, Fly Point, Upper and Lower Belchers, Jubilee Look-out, and Mount Davis for Europeans. (O.C. H.K.S.B. R.G. A. will arrange about the rations of natives.)
5. Reliefs. Commencing from the second day of mobilization for the pre- cautionary stage, the guards, signallers, telephonists, look-outs, and P.F. specialists will be relieved daily at one hour before sunset.
The arrangements of reliefs will be left to the Officer Commanding the Company who should arrange the periods to suit the comfort of the meu.
6. Officers visiting Sentries.-Every battery must be visited by an officer at least twice during the 24 hours, of which one must be by night.
7. Guards.--Guards are for the purpose primarily of protecting guns, &c., from malicious injury. All gates of forts, doors of magazines, and P.F. cells and F.C. posts, &c, will be kept locked. P.F. shutters will be kept closed except in the case of Pinewood Battery, or if being used for drill.
The following sentries will be posted at each battery :----
By Day.1 flying sentry.
By Night.-1 sentry over guns; 1 sentry over gate and fence.
8. Entry to Forts.-No man will be admitted to any fort or building by night who is unable to give the countersign.
9. Look-out at Fire Command Post.-A look-out will be on duty at the F.C. post by day and by night. His duty will be to report at once to the officer any vessel of unusual appearance approaching the harbour. He will also keep up the log book, in which should be entered the name, nationality, time of entering or of leaving the harbour of every vessel.
10. P.F. Specialists' and Telephonists' Duties.-P.F. specialists and telephonists are entirely responsible for the safeguarding of their instruments. They are not required for guard duties, and will sleep in their posts.
There should always be a telephonist on duty at Pinewood Battery, who will be in communication with the port war signal station at Victoria Peak by telephone.
Telephonists should have a private code signal to prevent any chance of the instruments being used by the enemy for their own purposes.
11. Preparation for Action.-The guns will at all times be kept ready for action, and a sufficient amount of ammunition should therefore be brought up from the magazines and placed in the cartridge and shell recesses, but shell will not be fused unless an attack is imminent.
12. Daily Drill. - Battery mannings should be daily practised, and men and officers practised in the scheme of defence contained in the fort record books.
The command communications, both by signal and telephone, should also be daily tested.
13. Reports to F.C.-The following subjects will be put in the form of a short report and submitted through you to the F.C. daily :-
(a.) State of communication by telephone throughout Belchers and Pinewood sub-
districts.
(b.) Any deficiencies of any sort which it is necessary to bring to notice.
(c.) Progress of further improving defences and forts and P.F. cells, &c., as laid
down in Defence Scheme and fighting books.
14. Maxims. You will make arrangements to hand over from Lower Belchers to the O.C. Island Section those Maxims which are held on charge for the infantry. together with such ammunition as may be required by them.
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