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CHAPTER V (6) and (7).

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31. Troops to get under arms. Troops will get under arms an hour before daybreak and remain so until outposts and observation posts report all correct and secure. Commanders of Sub-Sections will report accordingly to the Staff Officer, Sacred Hill.

32. Reports.-The Section Commanders' Post is near Orphanage on Sacred Hill, and all communications of importance received by Commanders of Sub-Sections are to be transmitted there-addressed to the Staff Officer, Sacred Hill.

(7.)-Orders by O.C.H.K.S.B. R.G.A.

(i.) At the Precautionary Stage.

1. On orders being received to adopt the precautionary stage, O.C. companies will hold their detachment in readiness to move out with their guns as may be ordered by the Section Commander.

2. The chief object of a precautionary stage being to make preparations for an actual mobilization and to safeguard all works, stores, &c., against the action of spies and other evilly disposed persons without at the same time running the risk of precipitating hostilities by obtrusive preparations, the following measures will be taken: Caretakers of works and magazine will be exchanged for guards; the condition of barbed wire or other fences must be seen to; all outstanding requisitions on A.O.D. affecting equipment must be hastened; ammunition groups must be arranged so as to ensure ammunition of the same date as far as possible being sent to each post; and generally all steps taken to facilitate actual mobilization.

3. The mobilization details at this stage come under the orders of O.C. sections to which allotted.

4. If not already complete, O.C. companies will see that a sufficient number of tickets are made out for issue to transport coolies. Each ticket to have the name of the post of destination printed on it.

5. All special stores for moving guns (as per issue orders) will be drawn at this stage and stored until war stage at Gun Club Hill Barracks. Other requisitions for equipment will be held over until stores are actually required.

(ii.) At the War Stage.

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Section will mobilize.

7. Mule transport will be taken over at once by the O.C.H.K.S.B. from A.S.C. (or from the R.E. if the moving of their stores has not been completed).

8. A requisition will be sent at once to the Staff Officer, Mainland Section, asking for such parties of infantry as may be required for moving heavier guns of movable armament.

9. Mules will in the first instance be used for moving 2:95-in. guns into position. Subsequently they will be employed for moving howitzers and 15-prs. as far as they can be moved along the roads, and after that for moving ammunition in waggons in the

same manner.

10. Equipment and kits of the howitzer 4.7-in. detachments will only be drawn and taken out when guns are half-way to their positions up to this point. Detachments will march back to barracks each night leaving guards over the guns.

11. Reports should be sent to the Adjutant, R.A., Kowloon City, immediately on arrival of any detachment at its post, stating also number of rounds of ammunition

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