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CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER II (A) and (B),

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ORGANIZATION.

(A.)—Divisions of Command.

The fortress is divided for defence purposes into six sections as follows:-

Section.

Area.

Commander.

Headquarters.

I. Stonecutters

II. The Peak

III. Mount Cameron

IV. Wong-nei-Cheong

Stonecutters

Upper Belchers Lower Belchers

Fly Point

Victoria Battery Mount Davis

O.C. R.G.A. Company.. Stonecutters West.

O.C. British Infantry Mount Austin Barracks.

Battalion

To line running down south spur 3rd

of Mount Kellett

From limit of No. II to line

running down south spur of

Mount Nicholson

From limit of No. III to line running down south-west spur of Mount Parker

V. Lyemun and Devil's Lyemun group of batteries

Peak

Sywan Hill and Redoubt S. and E. approaches

Senior Officer, The Sanitarium. British Infantry Bat- talion

O.C. No. I, Native In-Wong-nei-Cheong Gap.

fantry Battalion

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"Loan Officer, Sywan Hill.

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R.E.

From limit No. IV to line running E. and W. across

Haiwan Hill on mainland

VI. Kowloon

North Point

Kowloon West

O.C. No. II, Native In- Camp north of Kowloon

fantry Battalion

city.

Kowloon East

Kowloon Dock

Land Front

From limit No. V to seashore

west of Lai Chi Kok Pass

(B.)—Distribution of Troops.

Table B (i) shows the distribution of the garrison for defence by sections and reserves, Tables B (ii) to B (viii) the distribution by corps and the method of quartering.

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