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CHAPTER III (A) and (B).

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17. The Hong Kong Volunteer Corps will be called out for military service, and efforts made to complete them to establishinent. (See Proclamation (ii), Chapter VI (1), (ii).)

18. A Provost-Marshal will be appointed.

(B.)-Action by General Staff Officer.

(i.) At the Precautionary Stage.

1. On receipt of orders from the General Officer Commanding, he will send the message "Precautionary measures" to Commanding Officers.

(ii.) At the War Stage.

2. On receipt of orders from the General Officer Commanding he will send the message "Mobilize" to all troops.

3. He will promulgate the following General Staff Orders:

General Staff Orders.

Hong Kong,

191,

Declaration of Active Service.-The following Proclamations, issued by His Excellency the Governor, are published for information :-

(See Chapter VI (1), (i), paragraphs 5 and 6.)

Mobilization. The units in garrison will mobilize for the defence of the Colony, in accordance with Confidential Orders which are in possession of Officers Commanding.

Action by General Staff, Section and Fire Commanders, and General Reserve.-The General Staff Officer, D.A.Ă. and Q.M.G., O.C. R.A., C.E., O.C. A.S.C., P.M.O., C.O.O., Command Paymaster, Section and Fire Commanders, aud O.C. General Reserve will take action in accordance with the detailed instructions which are in their possession.

Command-The following are Commanding Officers of Sections, Fire Commands, and General Reserve:-

Island Section

Mainland Section .. Eastern Fire Command Western Fire Command

General Reserve (island and mainland)

O.C. 1st Indian Infy. Regt.

O.C. 2nd Indian Infy. Regt.

Senior Company Officer, Eastern Defences. Senior Company Officer, Western Defences. Under the direct orders of the G.O.C.

4. He will, on the war stage being notified or previously,* on receipt by the General Officer Commanding of instructions from the Governor, notify their appointments to the Censorship Staff consisting of 1 censor, 9 assistant censors, and 23 decoding clerks,† whose names have been registered, establish a censorship of submarine cables, and supervise the working of it.

5. He will submit to the censor a copy of the warrant (see Chapter VI) when signed, authorising the establishment of censorship, a copy of the notification (if received), and the packet containing the censorship documents (if not already issued),$ and will issue to the censor and his assistants their letters of appointment.

6. He will keep the staff diary and supervise the work of the Intelligence Officer, who will, under his orders, have charge of all arrangements connected with receiving, collating, and distributing intelligence. Intelligence will be received from-

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Censorship will be established (a) on receipt from His Majesty's Government of the text of the notifica tion, issued through the international telegraph bureau at Berne; or (b) in auticipation of the receipt of such notification as soon as the War Stage of the Defence Scheme is put in force, unless instructions to the contrary have been received from His Majesty's Government, forms of warrant, or warrants required are kept filled in ready for signature in the office of the Colonial Secretary (see Chapter VI).

† (Vide telegram from Governor Sir M. Nathan to Mr. Lyttelton, Colonial Office, dated September 20, 1905). Wide telegram from able for appointment to the censorship staff, selected by the Governor, is kept in the

office of the General Staff Officer, and was revised October 1910.

§ The packets received in War Office letter No. 63/18 (I z), dated the 26th August, 1904, containing the four documents specified on its printed envelope are kept in the office of the General Staff Officer, and were checked and compared with the Defence Scheme revised to October 1910, by that officer on the 18th October, 1910.

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