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The detailed distribution of the Royal Artillery is shown in the annexed Manning Table (Schedule XX (3)).

Position of Commander.-The Commanding Officer of the section will be within the fort.

Method of Quartering. The troops will be quartered as follows: The whole section under canvas in the fort until mat-sheds are built for their accommodation.

Camp Equipment and Stores.--The camp equipment, stores, and tools required for use in the section are enumerated in the annexed Schedules XVII (3) and XVIII (3).

All the articles are kept separate by the S.O.S.O., ready for immediate issue, and on mobilization will be sent straight to the head-quarters of the section, by means of transport to be provided by the Officer Commanding Army Service Corps, without requisition.

The Section Commander will receive the stores on the ground, and will sign the customary receipt vouchers.

Reinforcement in Case of Attack. Eleven men of the Hong Kong Regiment in Kowloon Reserve are trained to assist in working the 10-inch guns if required.

Communications.-A telegraph station is established in this battery on mobilization. There is a visual signalling station, which communicates with the stations at Stonecutter's, Fly Point, Scandal Point, Magazine Gap, Wong- nei-Chong Gap, Lyemun, and Kowloon North.

Method of Supply: Ammunition.-The complement of ammunition for the guns of this section is 200 rounds for each gun. The whole is stored in the magazines of the fort, except 100 cartridges per 10-inch R.M.L. gun (300 in all), which have been requisitioned from England, but for two-thirds of which, at present, there is insufficient magazine accommodation in the fort. Steps are being taken to provide such accommodation, but in the meantime, if the emergency arises, the cartridges will have to be drawn from the Ordnance Stores and placed in field magazines.

Small-arm Ammunition.-On marching out, all ranks carry in their pouches 100 rounds per Lee-Metford rifle, 70 rounds per Martini-Henry rifle, and 20 rounds per carbine. An additional 100 rounds per rifle and carbine is dispatched by hired transport to the section as a first reserve.

This reserve should always be kept up, and requisitions on the Ordnance Store Department should be furnished accordingly.

Food.-Rations for Europeans will be issued daily from the Army Service Corps head-quarters at 4 A.M., and will be escorted to the section by parties furnished from the Victoria Reserve.

Rations for Asiatics are delivered under regimental arrangements.

Water. Obtained by pumping from the War Department wells within the lines of the Hong Kong Regiment.

Transport. There should be very little transport required within the section itself. In the event of any being required, information should be sent to the Officer Commanding Army Service Corps, Victoria Reserve.

Depôt.-All stores will be accumulated in the battery.

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Medical Services. Dressing Station. The Schedule of Equipment shows the hospital equipment furnished for the dressing station which will be estab- lished within the fort, and for which a ward coolie will be supplied. addition, the following surgical and medical equipment will be furnished to the Section Commander by the Principal Medical Officer, namely:-

Field tourniquet

First field dressings

Medical comforts as required.

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Coolies for carrying the dhoolies mentioned in the Schedule of Equipment will be indented for as required.

Modes of Attack.-The modes of attack that may be expected are:-

1. Bombardment from ships.

2. Fire of musketry, machine-guns, and mountain-guns from the hills

which command it.

3. Rush of a storming party.

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