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Chapter IV-Instructions to Section Commanders.
21. Page 73, paragraph 10; page 76, paragraph 14, &c.-It should be made clear that working plans of the field works and the lists of tools and working parties required for each are kept up in the office of the C.R.E. in time of peace, and would be available for use on mobilization.
Chapter V-Orders to Corps as to Procedure on Mobilization.
22. Page 97 (vi).--The present Chapter V (vi), containing instructions to the Reserve, would not appear to be in place in this Chapter, which contains orders to corps as to procedure on mobilization. The guards here specified are detailed in the garrison orders at page 26, on the assumption apparently that the reserve troops are to remain under the direct orders of the G.O.C. in war. If, however, it is considered that the O.C. Reserve should be in possession of instructions, these could be included in Chapter IV.
Chapter VI.-Civil Administration and Harbour Traffic Regulations.
23. Pages 101 to 107.-Chapter VI of the 1901 Defence Scheme has been sent home unrevised in 1903, and is now reprinted as Chapter VI (i). Paragraphs 38 to 41, of the Committee's Remarks, No. 282 R, on the 1901 Defence Scheme, still call for con- sideration, and the attention of the Governor is invited to paragraph 3 of the same Remarks on the subject of a place of refuge for the civil population in certain contingencies.
24. Pages 104 and 107. Harbour Traffic Regulations.-Chapter VI (i) (5), page 104, is apparently intended to be superseded by the portion of the Defence Scheme which is now printed as Chapter VI (ii), pages 107 to 109, but which was received with the MSS. of the revised Defence Scheme at the end of Chapter III.
In future the various responsibilities of the Harbour-Master in time of war, should be described in Chapter VI (i) (5), but the detailed arrangements in connection with the regulation of traffic will more conveniently be embodied in Chapter VI (ii). The latter section should embody the following sub-sections :---
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(a.) Schedule of arrangements for the examination service during or in anticipa- tion of war, as agreed to by the General Officer Commanding the Troops and the Harbour-Master: to be put in force by the Governor on the recommendation of the General Officer Commanding, after the concurrence of the Naval Commander-in-Chief or Senior Naval Officer has been obtained."
The contents should be in the form prescribed at pages 12, bottom, to 14, end, of Schedule B, of the Report of a Conference between the Admiralty and War Office on this subject, which was communicated to the General Officer Commanding the Troops by War Office letter No. 266/638 M., dated the 12th June, 1902.
"(b.) Instructions for examination steamers and supporting batteries." This should follow as far as possible the form laid down in the Instructions for- warded with War Office letter No. 266/687 M., dated the 31st July, 1903.
25. Page 108, paragraph 3. Examination Lines.-The examination lines and supporting batteries mentioned in the Defence Scheme now under consideration differ from those specified in paragraph 40 of the Committee's Remarks, No. 282 R, on the 1901 Defence Scheme, and approved by the War Office and Admiralty, viz. :--
Eastern Entrance: From Lyemun Reverse, 12-pr. Q.F. battery, N. 45° E. (true) through Lyemun Point.
Western Entrance: From West Point, Belcher's 12-pr. Q.F. Battery, N. 6° W. (true) through the western extremity of Stonecutters Island.
These examination lines, however, require some modification, consequent on the construction of Pak-sha-wan Battery at the Eastern Entrance, and the decision to
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