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The Quartermaster will issue ammunition under the following procedure :—

If sufficient ammunition, including musketry practice ammunition, is in store for the whole regiment and Maxim guns, he will issue it in the proportions laid down above.

If, however, sufficient ammunition is not available in store, he will first complete the pouch ammunition of the two detachments taking the field, and issue the balance to the Maxim guns in equal proportions, and at once indent on the Ordnance Depart- ment for the amount required to complete the pouch ammunition of the whole regiment, which he will issue immediately on receipt.

He will aiso indent on the Ordnance Department for the 1st and 2nd Reserve ammunition to the double companies allotted to the Reserve.

3. Nos. 1 and 2 double companies will each be brought up to a strength of—

British officers

Native officers

Havaldars

Rank and file

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by drafts from Nos. 3 and 4 double cos., these drafts being composed of such castes as are suitable to the castes in them.

4. Men's kits limited to 40-lb. per man, and officers' baggage limited to 200-lb. per officer (including camp equipage). Officers' mess stores, all mobilization equipment which has been issued, and Maxim guns with their ammunition, will be conveyed by fatigue parties from the double companies in reserve and stacked alongside the Kowloon Police Pier for removal on arrival of the water transport, care being taken to prevent the stores of the two parties becoming mixed. Os.C. the two detachments will detail the necessary baggage guards.

5. The Os.C. Nos. 1 and 2 detachments will each detail an escort of 1 British officer, 1 n.c.o., and 6 men to attend at the Ordnance Office at the hour which will be notified to them by the Camp Adjutants of their Sections of the Defence to assist in drawing the reserve ammunition and field equipment for their detachments, and for its conveyance to section headquarters. These escorts will take charge of the coolies employed and insure that none desert.

The officers will report their arrival to the Camp Adjutants of their Sections of the Defence at the Ordnance Office.

6. No requisitions for water transport or coolies will be required, as the Officer i/c Transport has information of the amount required for the move of the regiment.

7. All baggage and stores left behind will be stored by companies in the Quarter- master's Stores, and a guard of 1 n.c.o. and 6 men, which will also act as the regi- mental quarter-guard, mounted over them.

8. All other regimental guards will be withdrawn and will join their companies. 9. All guards on duty in the forts will be relieved by the R.A., and will join their companies immediately on relief, utilizing the empty R.A. transport for their return to regimental headquarters.

10. Bandsmen and all men on regimental employ will at once join their companies, the rifles and accoutrements of men sick in hospital being issued to bandsmen under company arrangements.

11. Cooks, bhisties, and sweepers will join their companies.

12. The Os.C. Nos. 1 and 2 detachments will report their arrival at the headquarters of their sections to the Os.C. their Sections of the Defence, and take their orders as to the disposal of their men. The O.C. No. 2 detachment should not leave the Sugar Refinery Works until he has received orders from his Section Commander; he must be prepared to send a party of men to Devil's Peak.

13. Indents for rations will be submitted by 10 A.M. daily by the Os.C. detachments to the Os.C. their Sections of the Defence, and by the O.C. the companies detailed to the Reserve direct to the Officer i/e Supplies, Kowloon.

14. All coolies and water transport will be returned on completion of their move by Os.C. detachments to the Camp Adjutants of their Sections of Defence, escorts being furnished to insure that no coolies desert.

15. The trained signallers of the regiment are placed at the disposal of the Brigade Signalling Officer, who will detail them to Sections of the Defence. They should be equipped for service in the field under the conditions detailed above.

16. A guard of 2 havaldars, 2 naiks, 1 bugler, and 16 Sepoys, to be furnished by Company, will at once proceed to the Cosmopolitan Docks to assist the dock authorities in the protection of the docks. The senior havaldar will report the arrival

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