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NOTES AND QUERIES

Tung Chung Fort Shuen: 30 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Tai Yu Shan Fort Shuen: 30 garrison soldiers under 1 Tsing-tsung.

Tai Yu Shan Shuen: 40 garrison soldiers under 1 Tsing-tsung. Sha Lo Wan Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.

Tai Ho Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.

Mui Wo Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.

For the support of these guard-stations, other guard-stations were established on the mainland and the neighbouring islands. The following shows the distribution of garrison soldiers in these guard-stations:

Kowloon Walled City: 100 guard soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung and 2 Ngai-wai.

Kap Shui Mun Shuen: 10 garrison soldiers.

Shumshuipo Shuen: 35 garrison soldiers.

Tsing Lung Tau Shuen: 50 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Tsing Yi Tam Shuen: 15 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung.

Cheung Chau Shuen: 45 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung and 1 Ngai-wai.

Ping Chau Shuen: 15 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Yung Shu Wan Shuen (on Lamma Island): 10 garrison soldiers.

Po Toi Shuen (on Po Toi Island, south of Hong Kong Island): 20 garrison soldiers.

These guard-stations were under the command of the Tung Chung Shau-pei of the Tai-pang Battalion.

Besides the garrison soldiers, there were also war vessels with 60 soldiers under 2 Tsing-tsung and 1 Ngai-wai.

These forts and guard-stations remained in position till 1898, when the New Territories and the adjacent Islands were leased to the British. After that, they were redundant.

BIBLIOGRAPHY CITED (all from Chinese Sources)

O Mun Kei Leuk ¶ g. 1800 edition

San On Yuen Chi

1819 edition

Kwong Tung Tung Chi ✯✯ 1864 edition