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Method of Supply: Ammunition.-The complement of ammunition for the guns of this section is 200 rounds for each, except the Q.F. guns, which have 500 rounds, and the machine-guns, which have 10,000. These rounds have been issued to the Royal Artillery, and are placed in the magazines in the forts.
Small-arm Ammunition.—On marching out all ranks carry in their pouches 100 rounds per Lee-Metford rifle, 70 rounds per Martini-Henry rifle, and 20 rounds per carbine. An additional 100 rounds per rifle and carbine is dispatched by hired transport to the section as a first reserve. This reserve should always be kept up, and requisitions on the Ordnance Store Department should be furnished accordingly.
Food.-Rations will be issued daily from the Army Service Corps Head- quarters at 4 A.M., and will be escorted to the section by parties furnished from the Victoria Reserve.
Water.-Obtained from the Tytam supply in Belcher's Fort and the various
hill streams.
Transport.-There should be very little transport required within the section itself. In the event of any being required, intimation should be sent to the Officer Commanding Army Service Corps, Victoria Reserve.
Depôt.-All stores will be accumulated in Lower Belcher's Battery. Medical Services and Dressing Stations.-The Schedule of Troops, &c., shows the number of Medical Staff allotted to this section, and the Schedule of Equipment indicates the hospital equipment furnished for the three dressing stations which will be established at Lower Belcher's, Fly Point, and Victoria Batteries, and for each of which a ward coolie will be supplied.
In addition, the following surgical and medical equipment will be furnished to the Section Commander by the Principal Medical Officer, namely :—-
Field companion and water-bottle
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tourniquets
First field dressings
Medical comforts as required.
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Coolies for carrying the dhoolies and stretchers mentioned in the Schedule
of Equipment will be indented for as required.
Modes of Attack.-The modes of attack that may be expected are:
1. Bombardment of batteries.
2. Attack on mines by torpedo-boats.
3. Landing on northern coast.
A bombardment will be met by the fire of all or any of the batteries of this section, supplemented if necessary by that from Sections I, III, and XI.
Attack on the mines, raid on shore ends of mine-field cables, &c., will be met by the fire of Q.F. guns manned by artillery, machine-guns manned by infantry, and the rifle fire of infantry.
A landing will be resisted by the infantry with rifles and machine-guns, supported, if necessary, by Q.F. guns and any reserve field or mountain artillery that may be sent to support it.
If a landing is effected and an attempt made to storm the batteries, the gunners will man the parapets with their carbines.
Additional Works.-The additional communications to be made are:--
1. A pathway from the main road near Belcher's to Victoria Battery and to the observing station and aqueduct.
2. Pathway to work on lower slope of Mount Davis. Also breastworks for infantry, for rifle and machine-gun fire, will be made on the knoll about 200 yards S.W. of Fly Point and the neighbouring slopes, also a cover for the electric light emplacement.
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