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SECRET.
ORDERS FOR THE COMMANDANT OF THE GUARD. CHINESE SOLDIERS INTERNMENT CAMP.
You will act as Commandant of the Internment Camp for
soldiers of the Chinese Army.
2.
As commandant you are responsible for the safe custody of
all interned Chinese soldiers, officers and men.
3.
You will be assisted by the Civil Police in maintaining
strict discipline amongst the internees in the camp.
(The internees are organized into squads under their own
leaders who are in turn responsible to you through the Civil Police for the good behaviour of their squads.)
4.
To enable you to enforce discipline and to prevent interned
soldiers from escaping, you are given complete discretion to take
such action as you may consider necessary to cope with the situation.
The sentries furnished from the Guard under your command
are hereby authorized, as a very final resort only, to open fire on
an internee attempting to escape or on the ring leader in a mass
disturbance.
The fact that such action will be taken by the Guard in
these circumstances will be clearly explained, through the Civil
Police, to the internees at frequent intervals.
5.
Should it become necessary for you to give orders to open
fire, or for a sentry to shoot on an escaping internee, aim will be
low but shooting will be for effect.
Shots will be aimed at the front of the crowd in a
disturbance or at conspicuous individual ring-leaders.
6.
You will immediately communicate any unusual occurrence in
connection with the internees through your Unit to the Duty Officer
at Command Headquarters.
Hong Kong, 3/12/1938.
Kowloon. 3.1.39.
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Sd. x x x x x
Brigadier, China Command.
A.A. & Q.M.G. i/c Administration
sd. R.J.F.A. Lawder, Captain. Adjutant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.