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troops, and prevent the construction of batteries on the west and north-west slopes of the hills.

With a terrain so broken as Hong Kong, and with few points that command an extensive view, a great feature of the defence by so small a garrison is the power of communicating the actual landing-place of the enemy with the utmost rapidity, so that aid from neighbouring Sections and reinforcements from the reserve may be speedily brought to bear on his line of advance. The outposts thrown out from Nos. II, III, IV, and V Sections, which observe the landing-places and all points of the circular road on the south, will eventually be supplemented by telephone lines between the outposts and the head-quarters of Sections, but besides the flag-signalling between outposts and head-quarters of Sections, and the Chinese runners, whom it is intended at once to attach to the various outposts to carry back reports to the Officer Com- manding the Section, there are now Colonial telephone lines running from d'Aguilar, Tytam Reservoir, Stanley, Deep Water Bay, Aberdeen, and Pokfulum, which commu- nicate to the Central Police Station, which is in communication with the Head-quarter Office; the police at the various stations are there to supplement the outposts as gainers of information.

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