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Volunteers on last military exercise
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) conducted its last military exercise in the New Territories over the past three days (June 9, 10 and 11).
More than 600 soldiers participated in this annual exercise.
The main areas of activities were in Tai Lam Chung, Shing Mun, Sek Kong, Lam Chuen and Cloudy Hill.
The exercise scenario was that groups of religious extremists had infiltrated the above areas and were trying to establish bases there.
The Volunteers were called out to destroy these fanatics.
The activity in each of the above locations were limited to small areas. Blank ammunition and pyrotechnics were also used.
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment will become non-operational on July 1 and disband on September 3 this year.
End/Monday, June 12, 1995
Water storage figure
Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 63.8 per cent of capacity or 373.648 million cubic metres.
This time last year the reservoirs contained 379.729 million cubic metres of water, representing 64.8 per cent of capacity.
End/Monday, June 12, 1995