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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1936.

Firing signals.

Offences

Signals are

(3) Such Officer shall also cause to be published notice of intending practice firing and of the Firing Areas affected. in the Gazette of the week preceding that in which the firing is to take place and shall supply copies of such notice to the persons enumerated in the Second Schedule, not less than forty-eight hours before the firing commences.

(4) Such notice shall contain warnings to masters of vessels or pilots of aircraft exempt from the operation of this Ordinance under section 10, to assist the carrying out of the firing practice by hastening through the Firing Area affected or by consenting to be towed out of such area, if necessary, by any vessel acting under the orders of the local Military Authorities.

5.-(1) Notice that firing is taking place in any of the Firing Areas shall be given by the hoisting or display of the following signals—

A. In respect of firing by day----

(a) by red flag flown by the battery concerned.

(b) (i) For Firing Area A, by a red flag, with below it the International Code Flag "A", flown from Lyemun Typhoon Signal Mast.

(ii) For Firing Area B, by a red flag, with below it the International Code Flag "B", flown from Lyemun and Waglan Typhoon Signal Masts.

(iii) For Firing Area C, by a red flag flown from Aberdeen and Stanley Typhoon Signal Masts.

(iv) For Firing Area D, by a red flag flown from Aberdeen, Cheung Chau and Green Island Typhoon Signal Masts.

(v) For Firing Area E, by a red flag flown from Green. Island Typhoon Signal Mast.

(c) by a large red flag on the Range Target Towing Vessel. The display of this flag is a signal that the target is ready to be, or is being, fired at.

B. In respect of firing by night—

(a) by a red lamp hoisted at the battery concerned.

(b) by the appropriate signal referred to in paragraph A, sub-paragraph (b) of this sub-section.

(2) The signals in respect of firing by day shall be hoisted or displayed two hours before firing is due to

commence.

The signals referred to in respect of firing by night shall be hoisted or displayed two hours before sunset.

Signals shall remain hoisted or displayed until firing has ceased, when they shall at once be hauled down or extinguished.

6. While notice that firing is taking place over any of while Firing the Firing Areas is given by the hoisting or display of the signals as provided in section 5, then in respect of the areas affected by the said notice--

displayed.