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CHAPTER II (C) and (D).

C. S. P.'s Office—

Colonial Secretary's Office.

C. S. P.'s residence, Peak.

Magistracy.

*Stanley Police Station.

Victoria Gaol Office.

Victoria Gaol, Branch Causeway Bay. Fire Alarms through No. 5 Station-

Civil Hospital.

No. 7 Police Station.

No. 2 Police Station. Clock Tower.

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Fire Alarms through No. 5 Station (cont.)~-

Wilmer Street.

Harbour Office (outside on wall).

Hollywood Road.

Disinfecting Station-

Inspector's Quarters.

59, Praya East (Sanitary Board Eastern District

Office).

56, Hollywood Road (Sanitary Board Central

District Office).

Pokfulum Road (Sanitary Board Western

District Office).

No. 2 Tank.

INDEPENDENT LINES.

Colonial Secretary's Office to Government House.. Praya reclamation Office to Tytam engine house

2. Ship Signalling System.The ship signalling stations are :--

"Mountain Lodge." (Tytam Bungalow.

Tytam Tuk.

The Gap Rock and Waglan lighthouses, and the Peak, Green Island, and Blackhead's Hill signal stations.

Every ship sighted from Gap Rock is reported by telegraph to the Telegraph Company, who pass on the report by telephone to the Harbour Office and signal stations in the case of a man-of-war to the Naval Yard.

Every ship sighted from Waglan is reported by telephone as above.

Every ship sighted from the signal stations, not previously reported to those stations is immediately signalled.

The information given is that supplied by the vessel concerned.

If she hoists no colours or House flag, she is reported as a steamer or sailing-ship.

If she hoists colours only, her nationality is reported; if House flag, her house is added; if her number, her name is also sent.

It is no part of the duty of the light-keeper or signalman to guess at the identity of any ship-he only transmits information. At the lighthouses, besides the usual lighthouse staff, there is a clerk for transmitting messages, and also one at each of the signal stations.

The signal stations at the Peak and Cape D'Aguilar are the port war signal stations. They are under the control of the Navy in both peace and war.

At Cape D'Aguilar there is a wireless telegraphy station under naval control.

The information given by the lighthouses in war would be the same as in time of peace; while the personnel of the sigual station at the Peak would be supplemented by trained signallers from the Royal Navy.

3. Visual Signalling. The military signallers of the three battalions of the garrison will be distributed by the Brigade Signalling Officer to the various sections of the defence to supplement the telephonic communication, or to replace it when disabled.

(D.)-Modes of Meeting various Attacks.

(i.) At the Precautionary Stage.

1. In discussing the modes of meeting various attacks, it is advisable to recapitulate, for purposes of clearness, the precise form of attack to which Hong Kong is liable, and which it is the object of the defences and garrison to render impracticable. This is held to be a raiding attack, delivered in the absence of the fleet, by not more than six or eight armoured vessels, accompanied by two or three armed transports, conveying in all a maximum landing force of 4,000 men. It is further ruled that Hong Kong is not liable to attack by torpedo-boats.

2. Under those conditions it is assumed that the above organized form of attack cannot be delivered without such notice being given by the navy, or under local arrangements as will suffice for the garrison to pass from the precautionary to the

* Likely to be useful on mobilization,

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