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for providing and erecting the tents. This will also be the case at Sywan Redoubt and at Tytam Gap. At Tytam Reservoir the telephone will be fixed in a building belonging to the Colonial Government. Permanent shelters have been built at Danger Flag Hill and at No. 12 Hill, Kowloon.
Table C (i) shows the distribution of the R.E. staff during the first day while mobilization is being completed, and Table C (ii) shows the distribution of all parties, including operators, orderlies, and messengers, after all the telephones have been erected. The telephones are worked by European infantry operators, except between Whitfield Barracks, and Danger Flag Hill, and No. 12 Hill; and between Lyemun Barracks, Sywan Redoubt, and Tytam Gap, which are to be worked by operators from the Hong Kong Regiment. The extra operators required for the permanent offices, and those for the additional offices opened during mobilization, report on mobilization at the Telegraph School, Wellington Barracks, and are then detailed to the various offices. As far as possible, the clerks for offices in the several Sections of the Defence will be taken from the infantry permanently detailed for the defence of the Section. On mobilization, Chinese coolie messengers are provided, 4 for the Head-quarter Exchange, 2 for Stonecutters West, and 2 for Lyemun. These will be provided by the Transport Contractor, under a special contract which will be made when required, and they will be accommodated in tents at all the stations except at Head-quarters.
The Officers Commanding Sections concerned are responsible for arranging for orderlies at Sandy Bay Gap, Mount Davis, howitzer position above Sandy Bay, Moun- tain Lodge, Mount Gough, the Sanitarium, Middle Gap, Wong-nei-Cheong Gap, Whitfield Barracks, Danger Flag Hill, No. 12 Hill, at Sywan Redoubt, and at Tytam Gap.
The Submarine Mining telephones are kept permanently fixed, except those for the search-lights at Stonecutters, and for the station of the O.C. Submarine Mining at each place, no permanent stations having as yet been provided. A scheme for an improved system of these telephones is now under consideration.
The diagram shows the military fortress command, R.A. command, and S.M. command lines only, excluding all purely administrative lines.
In addition to this, the Colonial Government maintains a service of telephones with the Exchange in the Central Police Station; all police stations and Government build- ings being in communication therewith, as also the police stations at Shatin, Taipohu, and some other places in the new territory.
The military telephone system is in connection with the Government service by a line from the Head-quarter Exchange to the Central Police Station, and the most distant station can be brought into direct communication with the Head-quarter Office Exchange.
The China and Japan Telephone Company has a system with which all Govern- ment offices, the Royal Naval Yard, and many private firms and houses are in
communication.
The Head-quarter Office is now cohnected with the Telephone Company's Ex- change, the line being brought to a separate telephone and not on to the Head-quarter Office switchboard.
Table C (i).-DISTRIBUTION of Non-commissioned Officers and Men for connecting up Telephones on Mobilization.
Place.
R.E.
Head-quarters Stonecutters
Belchers and No. Il Section No. III Section
Kowloon
Lyemun..
►
Wong-nei-Cheong Gap
Total
1 sergeant..
sapper
1
""
1 corporal
sapper
"
7
Coolies permanently employed
Coolies temporarily employed.
Remarks.
as wiremen,
2
01
1
Assisted by the infantry
clerks.
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