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Communications with reserves and with Lyemun exist as previously
explained.
A brigade signal station is established near Wong-nei-Chong Gap, which communicates with Bennet's Hill and Kowloon West.
There is a police telephone line from Stanley to Victoria, and a water- works telephone line from Tytam Reservoir to Victoria.
Method of Supply: Ammunition. The complement of ammunition for the guns of this section is 200 rounds for each of the howitzers, and 100 rounds for each of the 9-prs.
These will be delivered by hired transport at the positions assigned for these guns, the former to be stored in a field magazine which will be built for its accommodation if proper magazine accommodation has not in the meantime been supplied.
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 to the section, by hired transport, as a first reserve.
This reserve should always be kept up, and requisitions on the Ordnance Store Department should be furnished accordingly.
Food.-Rations for Europeans 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.
Rations for Asiatics are delivered under regimental arrangements.
Water. Obtained from the various streams within the section and from the Tytam Reservoir.
Transport.-There should be 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.
Depots. All stores will be accumulated at the head-quarters of the section.
Medical Services and Dressing Stations.-The Schedule of Troops, &c., shows the numbers of Indian hospital staff allotted to the section, and the Schedule of Equipment indicates the hospital equipment furnished for the two dressing stations which will be established at Tytam Reservoir and in a hollow near the howitzer battery, 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, viz. :—
Surgical haversack and water-bottle..
Field 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. Landings, covered by the fire of ships, in either Deep Water Bay or Repulse Bay.
2. Attack on the Tytam Reservoir position by a force already landed at Stanley or in Tytam Bay.
In the first case the fire of the three howitzers (H 3) would be brought to bear on the ships in either bay, and in a great part of those bays the ships would be further exposed to the fire of the three howitzers on Bennet's Hill (H 2), and also to that of the three 9-pr. guns at the head of the valley.
The commanding positions occupied by the infantry in the works of the first line and in some of the second when reinforcements arrive, ought, together with the howitzer fire, to prevent a landing in either bay, except by a very strong force of ships and men.
In that case the second line of works affords a strong position, which should be held, when reinforced strongly from the reserves and elsewhere, against a large force.
In the second case, viz., the advance by a force landed at Stanley or neigh- bourhood against the Tytam Reservoir and the Stanley and Quarry Bay Gaps, the defensive position is so strong, and is so completely out of range of ships'
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