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attached to communicating such to unauthorised persons, whether in or out of the Service, and that all orders are to be treated as "Confidential" (Instructions for Mobilization 1906, N.I.D., No. 819).
7. You are to issue to all dockyard officials and workmen, as well as to all ranks and ratings under the orders of the Commodore, a notice calling attention to the Commander-in-Chief's Confidential General Memorandum, No. 1, Section VII, as to the necessity for reticence by officers and men in their communications.
8. You are responsible for forwarding copies of the Admiralty Order (R.V. 53 c) to the Harbour Office, other Government offices, and to the shipping firms at Hong Kong, as soon as the Proclamation calling out the Royal Naval Reserve is issued by his Excellency the Governor.
9. You are to caution the local press against publishing any information concerning the movements, repairs, or manning of His Majesty's ships and naval auxiliaries.
A notice is also to be inserted in the local press that all mercantile marine signalling will be subjected to the Naval Censorship.
10. You are to furnish every day at 4 P.M. to the Officer in Charge of Signal Stations the secret signal for the following day for the admission of His Majesty's ships to the port. The method of supplying the secret signal is set forth in the Secret Instructions, dated Admiralty, March 1908.
11. Destroyers and torpedo-boats, when likely to be absent from the island for more than one day, will require to be furnished with the requisite number of secret signals in advance.
(iii.) War.
1. You are to notify the persons named in Section (ii), paragraph 1, of the receipt of the "War" telegram. You are to acknowledge the receipt as laid down in that paragraph.
2. You are to report briefly, in cypher, to the Commander-in-Chief when the arrangements for local defence have been completed.
Coolie labour required for Various Services.
To be requisitioned from the Naval Compradore on receipt of the "Warning' telegram.
No of Coolies.
Where to be sent.
90
12008
"Tamar."
Kowloon Depôt.
His Majesty's Dockyard, for net defence.
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(D.)—Duties of and Action by the Commander (N), His Majesty's Dockyard.
(i.) Peace.
1. You are to keep these Secret Standing War Orders under lock and key. They are to be handed over to your successor, and a certificate to this effect is to be furnished to the Naval Secretary to the Commodore.
2. You are to make yourself familiar with the action to be taken by you in peace and on receipt of the "Warning" and "War" telegrams. Any suggestions for improving these war arrangements are to be brought to the notice of the Commodore, reaching the Naval Secretary by the first day of each quarter.
3. You are, as far as possible, to have all telegrams, letters, written orders, and other communications in connection with your duties during a period of strained
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