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Table E (i)--DETAIL of Field Works to be constructed continued.
Detail of Working Parties, R.E. supervision.
Tools required.
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No. of Work.
Nature of Work.
N.C.Os.
N.C.Os.
Officers.
and Coolies. Officers. end Pickaxes. Shovels. Men.
Crow. bars.
Axes.
Bill- books.
Time required.
Remarks.
Sand-bags.
Men,
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No. III (EASTERN) SECTION—Contd.
50*
51
Trenches on Mount Parker, with overhead cover Clearing slopes of Mount Parker
1
50
52
Scarping hillside round infantry position, Mount
Parker
53
Improving existing trenches and howitzer posi-
tions, Boa Vista
51
Entanglements in front of 15-pr. position, south-
east of Tytam Gup
55
Infantry post and entanglements on Mount
Collinson
}
56
Infantry trenches at Tytam Tak, covering tele- phone post with entanglements and ditto at intervals on Tytam Tuk Road
1
388 2 2 3 3
2001
20
101
:::
10
15
:
20
30
25
2,000
fi daya
12
5
>>
5
2
'
1 day
10
10
2
200
1
12
12
3
25
For general superintendonce in No. III
Section.
}+Contractor's tools,
57
Infantry trench clearing and abattis on Pottinger
Peak
10
5
3
2
2 days
1 day
58*
D'Aguilar Wireless Station. Entanglements
1
20
5
5
1,000
1
"
59
round fire trench to command landing, and placing installation in a state of defence Maxim emplacement and fire trouch, Saiwan
Bay
5
5
60*
Entanglement of existing double fence, Saiwan
10
Battery and P.F. cell
61
Fire trenches commanding Lyeman Bay
82
High wire entanglement round No. 1 light
5
63
High wire entanglement round Pak-sha-wan
Battery and engine house
40
64
Ditto round Reverse Battery
65
High wire entanglement round Brennan directing
28
20
20
station, 6-pr. battery, down east side of patli
to Brennan torpedo installation
66
Approach road from Cheong Lai Bay to Haiwan
Gap (widening existing path)
:
67
Repairing trenches at Haiwan and erecting
1
50
10
10
entanglements at Haiwan and gap between
Haiwan and Black Hill
68*
Battery and P.F. cell
69
70*
71
Entanglements in existing fence round Gough
Ditto, ditto, F.C. Post
Ditto, ditto, Pottinger Battery and P.F. cell
Barbed wire fence across land north of cable hut,
Devil's Peak
**
:::
20
2
20
:
:::
::
:
41
50
1
2 days
1 day
1 33
2 days
Fence will be built this year.
1 day
1
"
:::
:::
:
:
:
:::
800+ road by contract for mule traffic.
500
3 days
•
1 day
T
1 23
1 "
[1022]
Wire required for above (55-76) Entanglements on Mount Parker Fencing shore of Saiwan Bay
Fencing Mount Collinson and Pottinger Peak Fencing across spur south-east Mount Collinson
No. IV (NORTHERN) SECTION
Sub-Section (a) Black Hill to Kowloon Peak.
Road, Customs Pass to summit of Chin Lan
72*1
73
Chun Hill
Emplacements --
*
(a) Chin Lan Chun
*
(b) Customs Pass
74
Shelter trenches-
(a.) Chin Laa Chun fill..
(6.) Bay View ..
(e) Razor Hil..
(d) Hebe Knoll
75
(e.) Lower Hebe Hill
() Hebe Hill..
(g) Customs Hill (2)
:::::
:
:::::
1
40
(A) Customs Pase (2)
(i.) North-east Kowloon Peak (2).
Patrol Path, Kowloon Peak, to Middle Hill Wire entanglements, 600 yards run
20
10
==
:::::
200
2++
25+
:::
:
::
::
20
::
40
30
20
20
:::::
:::::
Barbed
wire.
Yards.
61,600
104,000
X
:
31,500
40,500
22,500
:::::
See note to Section I.
1 week ..
† For general superintendence in No. IV
Section.
Loan officer becomes available after handing
over.
To be completed by contract labour on mobili-
zation.
2-15-prs.; 2--2·95.
1-5-in. howitzer.
55
150+, 140
810† contract labour.
To be constructed by infantry parties on com-
pletion of shelter trenches.
15
190
15
4
8
8
2
10
2
400 200
2 hours
2
400+
160+
260+
250+
200
200
20
20
4)
3,000
2 days
220†
Total, 2,860 yards.
260+
330+, 220+
250+, 220+
20
20
:::::
::
::
::
::
2 days
289 199
10
20
29
10
20
1 week
:>
To be completed by contract labour on
mobilization.
15
15
15
15
10
400
4 hours
1-47; 2-2.95.
15
15
10
200
2
#
2-15-prs.
180+
190+
1801
210+
180+
20
1304, 120+
20
40
1,500
2 days
310+
Total, 2,930 yards.
(e.) Tate's Cairu
(g.) Grasscutters' Pass
+
200
200
200
20
Sub-Section (b), Middle Hill to Lion Rock.
76
Roads--
*2
(a.) Customs Pass to Tate's Cairn..
4:3
(6) Kowloon City to Shatin Pass..
**
(c) Shatin Pass to Crown Point
77
Emplacements--
t
(a.) Tate's Cairn
97
(b) Crown Point
78
Ο
Shelter trenches
(a.) Middle Hill
(7.) Sleepers' Knoll
(e.) 1804 Hill .. (d.) Tate's Pass
Tate's Ridge (2)
(2.) Temple Hill
(.) Farm Knoll
Shatin Pass (2) (4) Crown Point (4) Lion Rock (3)
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110t
110t, 90t, 100†
90+, 70+
360+
170†, 240†, 90†)
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