Enclosure 4.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
"A" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.
Report on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1898.
Date
Nature of Practice.
Number Number
on which Practice was
carried out.
! Present of
on Rounds Parade. fired.
Range.
General Idea of Practice.
0.45" Maxim M.H. Chamber, Machine Gun,
16th Oct.,
36
1,966
1897.
255
Yards.
800 to 1,400
Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore, Stone- cutters' Island, during Camp of In- struction.
To repel a body of men who bad under cover advanced to within 500 yards, on Police Range, Kowloon. An enemy having landed, to stop and drive them back to their boats, at Re- pulse Bay.
Do.
Do.,
27th Nov.,
28
1,427
500
1897.
Do..
1st Jan.,
20
1,514
800 to 1,050
1898.
Do.,
22nd Jan.,
27
4,000
800 to 1,050
1898.
Do.,
5th Mar.,
28
1,000
1,300
1898.
Do..
12th Mar., 1898.
33
2,050
700 to 1,000
To repel an enemy attempting to land in boats, from road in front of North Point Battery.
To drive back 4 parties of an enemy, who had effected a landing, to their boats, at Repulse Bay.
J. W. Carrington, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Enclosure 5.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
FIELD BATTERY,
Musketry Return, showing Percentage and Classification for the Year ending 16th April, 1898.
Number Firing. Points
obtained.
Number
of
Classification.
Percentage.
Remarks.
1st Class. 2nd Class. 3rd Class.
Recruits' Course,
48
1,245
46.31
25
9
14
Trained Soldiers' Course,
*88
2,966
40.12
35
24
29
Total,.........
136
4,211
60
33
43
* This includes a few Recruits who also fired Trained Soldiers' Course.
J. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
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