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CHAPTER II (C) and (D).
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At Tytam Reservoir the telephone will be fixed in a building belonging to the Colonial Government.
At the Sanitarium the telephone will be fixed in one of the rooms. Permanent buildings for the Fire Commanders at Belchers and Stonecutters already exist, and that for the Fire Commander at Kowloon East is completed.
The Section Commanders' posts at Stonecutters and Lyemun have already been referred to.
For the remaining stations, viz., Section Commanders in No. II and No. III Sec- tions and the outposts at Mount Davis, Howitzer position, High West, Sywan Redoubt, and Tytam Gap (and the Infantry Camp at Stonecutters), the telephone operators and instruments are at present accommodated in tents.
12. The Royal Artillery telephone lines are permanently erected, consisting of buried cables at Belchers, Kowloon, and North Point, and aerial lines elsewhere.
Cables are about to be laid at Stonecutters to replace the existing aerial lines, and a scheme for buried cables and air lines at Lyemun and Devil's Peak has been forwarded to the War Office for consideration.
13. Telephone instruments are kept in the various stores in the forts, and are frequently used by the Royal Artillery at drill.
(For telephones not in permanent buildings temporary shelters are provided in the forts.)
14. The lines are inspected at intervals by Royal Engineer linesmen.
15. Telephonic communication will also be carried on to the hills running across the Kowloon peninsula when the positions for them, which are at present under con- sideration, are finally fixed. No difficulty will arise in laying them out, as they can be looped on to the Colonial lines which runs to Tai-po-hu on the east, and can be extended from the Stonecutters-Kowloon line on the west. The Colonial Government is at present arranging for a line to Sai Kung.
16. The extra operators required for the permanent offices and those for the additional offices opened during mobilization report, under the direction of a standing Garrison Order, on mobilization at the Telegraph School, Wellington Barracks, and are then detailed to the various offices by the Officer Commanding submarine mining. The clerks for offices in the several sections of the defence will be taken from the infantry detailed for the defence of the Section. On mobilization English-speaking Chinese coolie messengers are provided by the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (B), viz., four for the Headquarter Exchange, two for Stonecutters, and two for Lyemun. These will be provided by the transport contractor.
17. The command system of telephones is that on which the fighting troops must depend for the purpose of transmitting orders and intelligence. The administrative system is maintained for convenience, and is to be considered entirely subsidiary to it.
18. Little difficulty will arise in extending the system, as wires can be run on Colonial Government poles, which run to Shatin and Tai-po-hu on the east, and the military line to Stonecutters on the west would supply poles as far as the road branching off to the Cosmopolitan Dock from the main road.
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(D.)-Modes of Meeting various Attacks.
(i.) Attack from the Sea.
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1. East or West Entrance.-Attacks on the eastern or western entrances will be met by the guns of the forts, and by the submarine mines, supplemented by the sectional infantry, and in the case of an eastern attack by the Brennan torpedo.
2. Landing on East.-If an attack on the eastern entrance is supplemented by a landing of troops in Sywan Bay or on the Eastern Coast, the sectional troops can be
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