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10. You will proceed to your Section Headquarters, and distribute your troops to their positions as they arrive, in accordance with Table B (ii). The arrangements for corps proceeding to their sections will be notified in Garrison Orders.
11. The troops under your command will be rationed for two days by their units. A ration sub-depôt of reserve supplies will be established in your section, but it is only to be drawn upon in the event of rations, which will be sent daily, failing to reach you through any unforeseen accident. You will collect daily from O.C. detachments in your command ration indents for one day's rations at a time, and submit them in bulk to the Officer i/c Supplies.
12. On arrival of your troops at Section Headquarters, you will at once return all transport to the Officer i/c Transport, Victoria or Kowloon, as the case may be, detailing an escort over coolies to prevent their desertion.
13. You will mount a guard over your ration sub-depôt and field magazine, which will be combined to save duty.
14. You see that communication with the sections on your flanks is established.
15. The detail of works to be carried out is given in Table E (i). These works already commenced in the precautionary stage being continued if not complete. The C.E.
E. will arrange for the supply of additional labour.
16. You will detail outposts for your section both by day and night. The troops under your command will get under arms an hour before daybreak daily, and remain so until the outposts and observation posts report all correct and secure.
17. You will establish alarm posts in your section. On an alarm, fires and unnecessary lights are to be at once extinguished and silence maintained. For the purpose of extinguishing fires quantities of loose earth are to be kept close at hand, especially in the vicinity of buildings.
18. You will send a daily state of your command to the D.A.A. and Q.M.G., reporting sick or wounded who may require removal to military hospital.
19. A general outline of the probable modes of attack will be found in Chapter II (D) (i) and (ii), while the disposition of your troops is given in Table B (ii). The latter is 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 is not required of you. You are at liberty to dispose and manoeuvre your troops to meet an attack as circumstances may dictate.
20. You will report at once by telephone to the Major, General Staff, when all your arrangements are complete, troops in position, and communications established.
21. The arrangements for the issue and supply of small arm and gun ammunition are detailed in Chapter III (H), paragraphs 3 to 6.
(2.) No. I Section Commander.
Water.--At the western end of Stonecutters Island there is a catchment area and Banks calculated to hold a supply of water for the garrison for three months. The orts at the eastern end of the island can obtain water from this source and from water poats under A.S.C. arrangements.
Belchers Forts have either water laid on or in storage tanks.
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