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There is telegraphic communication between the barracks and Fortress Head-quarters, Kowloon Dock, North Point, &c., and telephonic communi- cation from the barracks to the several batteries.
The visual signal station at the barracks communicates with that at Kowloon West,
Method of Supply: Ammunition.-The complement of ammunition for the guns of this section is 200 rounds for each, except the quick-firing guns, which have 500 rounds, and the machine-guns, which have 10,000 rounds. The whole is stored in the magazines of 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 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 War Department well supply to Lyemun barracks, the tanks in Lyemun Redoubt, and the various small streams in the locality.
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 in the barracks.
Medical Services and Dressing Stations.-The Schedule of Troops, &c., shows the number of Medical Staff allotted to the section, and the Schedule of Equipment indicates the hospital equipment furnished for the three dressing stations which will be established in the Lyemun Redoubt, the barracks, and on Sywan Hill, 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. :—
Field companion and water-bottle
Field fracture box
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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. A bombardment of batteries.
2. Attack on mines by torpedo-boats.
3. Attempted landing.
4. Attack in rear, by troops landed in east or south-east.
A bombardment will be met by the fire of all or any of the batteries which bear upon the ships, supplemented, if necessary, by the guns of Section XI.
Attack on the mines, raids on shore ends of mine-field cables, &c., will be met by the fire of the 64-pr. and quick-firing guns manned by artillery, machine guns manned by infantry, and, where effective, the rifle fire of infantry.
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Landings will be resisted by the infantry with rifles and Gardner guns, and possibly by batteries of 7-prs. and Maxim guns brought up from the reserve. If a landing is effected, and an attempt made to storm the batteries, the gunners will man the parapets with their carbines.
The advance of a force from the east or south-east coast will be met by a concentration of forces on the entrenched line on lower spur of Mount Parker, in conjunction with the Sywan Redoubt.
Additional Works.-The Sywan Redoubt being about to be commenced, it may be assumed it will be finished, and need not be taken into account here.
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