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12. You will establish an alarm post. Immediately on an alarm being given at night, all lights and fires are to be at once extinguished, and complete silence is to be maintained. For the purpose of extinguishing fires, quantities of loose earth are to be kept close at hand. You will see that this is done, especially in the vicinity of buildings.
13. You will send a daily state of your command to the C.S.O., reporting any sick or wounded who may require removal to the base hospitals.
14. A general outline of the probable modes of attack and the dispositions of your troops has been given for your guidance. The latter are the result of experience gained in testing the weak and strong points of the defence, but you are to understand that a too rigid adherence to them is not required of you. You are at liberty so to dispose, move, and manoeuvre your troops to meet an attack or assist a neighbouring section as circumstances of the moment alone may dictate.
You are required, during peace time, to frequently visit the area of your section until every feature of ground is perfectly familiar to you, both by day and by night. You should think out every conceivable move an enemy might make, and your best way of meeting it.
15. All papers connected with the mobilization of your section entrusted to you are to be considered secret and confidential, and are not to be shown to anyone. They must be kept under lock and key, and, if you have no secure means of keeping them, they should be put in the confidential box in your regimental orderly room.
16. On your transfer to another station, or on your proceeding on leave for any period exceeding two months, you will be so good as to return all papers connected with the mobilization of your section to the C.S.O.
(ii)-Section Commander, No. 1 (Western) Section.
1. Area. This Section comprises the whole of Stonecutters Island and the western end of Hong Kong island, including Green Island. This western end of Hong Kong extends eastwards to a line drawn from the sea on the east of Sandy Bay through Bisnee Villa, N.E., to the aqueduct along the pathway; it then follows the duet for 600 yards, and from this point extends east to include Pinewood Battery, and from Pinewood Battery the boundary is drawn a straight line to West Point.
2. Composition.-Three forts are situated on Stonecutters Island-the West, Central, and East Forts.
West Fort, armed with 2-10-in. B.L., 2-6-in., Mk. V., B.L., H.P., 1-6-pr. and 2-3-pr., the latter being the examination battery.
Central Fort, armed with 1—10-in. B.L. (at present dismounted), 1—6-in. Mk. V., B.L., H.P.
East Fort, armed with 2-47-in. Q.F.
In addition to these forts the southern shore is armed with 2-12-pr. and 1-6-pг. Q.F, and 1 Maxim on cone mounting, and there are 2-15-pr. B. L. of the movable armament on the northern shore.
A Maxim emplacement is close to the targets on the rifle range to command the mine-fields on the north side of the island.
There are 2 more Maxim guns on parapet mountings in the Maxim shed at the barracks for use when required.
The western end includes the following forts :-
Upper Belchers, armed with 1-10-in. B.L. and 1-6-in. Mk, V, B.L., H.P, the
latter will be replaced by a 12-pr. Q.F.
Lower Belchers, armed with 3-6-in., Mk. V, B.L., H.P.; eventually these will be replaced by 2-6-in., Mk. VII, B.L. There are also 2-6-pr. Q.F. here.
Victoria, armed with 1-9-2-in. B.L.
Fly Point, armed with 1-10-in. B.L. and 1 Maxim on a cone mounting.
Elliott, armed with 2-12-pr. Q.F.
Pinewood, armed with 2-6-in. Mk. VII, B.L.
In a store at Lower Belchers are 2 Maxims on parapet mountings.
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