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7. He will provide for watching the reservoirs at Pokfulum, Aberdeen, and Tytam against damage by ill-disposed persons at night, and will maintain a close supervision over the civil population in Stanley and Aberdeen.

8. He will arrange for an observation post to be established from the police station at Sai Kung on the Me On Shan Ridge to watch for and report to the Central Station, the presence of any unknown vessels in Mirs Bay or Tolo Harbour.

9. He will arrange for the shores of the new territory outside the harbour and for the islands to be watched by the three police launches.

10. He will give orders for the police in the new territory to keep a watch at the points where roads cross into Chinese territory between the heads of Deep Bay and Starling Inlet, and to report persons constantly passing to and fro whose business is unknown. If China is hostile, patrols will be pushed out beyond the frontier to watch the movements of the population, and to search for Proclamations. Special attention will be paid to the town of Sham Chun.

11. He will communicate to the D.A.Q.M.G. at the Headquarter Office by telephone or messenger any information he may receive under the arrangements detailed in the last four paragraphs.

12. He will report to the Colonial Secretary when each separate action required of him on mobilization, according to the foregoing instructions, is completed and sub- sequently from time to time as may be necessary with regard to the action required of him while the fortress remains mobilized.

(6.)--Action by Principal Civil Medical Officer.

Care of Sick and Wounded,

1. Provision is required to be made for 1,000 naval and 674 military sick and wounded in time of war. The increased sickness or number of casualties among the civil population at such time will probably not be considerable.

2. The Colonial Government will provide accommodation for 400 out of the 1,000 anticipated naval sick and wounded—

(1.) In a Mat-shed Annex, to be constructed for 200 beds by the Public Works Department in the compound of the Government Civil Hospital;

(2.) At the Peak Hotel, of which possession will be taken by the Colonial Secretary under section 7 of the Order of the late Queen in Council of the 26th October, 1896, and which would be altered as might be required by the Public Works Department, and fitted with 200 beds for convalescents and cases that were not serious.

The Mat-shed Annex will be put in hand at once. The Peak Hotel will not be taken over till the necessity for this step becomes apparent.

The military authorities have made their own arrangements for the accommodation of their sick and wounded. Until, however, the Bowen Road Hospital is completed, the Maternity Hospital (12 beds) at the Government Civil Hospital will be made avail- able for seriously ill and wounded military officers, so that they may have the advantage of female nursing.

Additional civil requirements will be met by sending Chinese cases. (police and destitutes) to the Tung Wa, Alice, and Nethersole Hospitals and the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, keeping only one ward at the Government Civil Hospital for women requiring urgent treatment.

The sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps will be treated at the Tung Wa Hospital.

3. For the equipment of the Mat-shed Annex Hospital, and for surgical appliances and drugs for that hospital, and for the one at the Peak Hotel for naval patients, the P.C.M.O. will indent on the Deputy Inspector-General.

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