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7. Of the administrative circuits, those to the General Officer Commanding's house and Commodore's office can be considered as both administrative and command.

The barracks at Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, can be looped in on the line to Whitfield Barracks when occasion requires.

8. The Exchange, a 20-line switch-board, is in the Headquarter Office. The command lines from the various Section Commanders' headquarters, come into the same room, a separate telephone being provided for each line except for Nos. I and V Sections, which lines are at present connected to the Exchange, being both administra- tive and command.

Thus at present the administrative telephone in the Royal Artillery Guard room for Stonecutters West Battery is used on mobilization for command purposes, and would be moved to the Section Commander's post in West Battery.

A system of buried cables is now being laid in Stonecutters Island, on the comple- tion of which and of a small length of aerial line in Kowloon the administrative and command lines will be kept separate. Aerial wires for this purpose exists as far as North Point, thence the communication is by submarine cable to Kowloon, buried land cable to Danger Flag Hill, then by an air line, to be erected later, to Tai-kok-tsui cable hut, and by submarine cable to the cable hut at the east end of Stonecutters Island.

9. Also for Lyemun there exists at present but a single aerial line from Fortress Headquarters to Lyemun Barracks, which line is used both for administrative and command purposes.

Two more wires to form a closed circuit for command purposes are to be put up shortly, but the completion of this work depends on the receipt of stores from England and a final decision as to the ultimate station of the Section Commander at Lyemun.

10. The command circuit from Fortress Headquarters to Kellet's Gap is at present only a single wire, and the circuit is carried through Section Headquarters back to the outpost at the Sanitarium. Closed circuits for both the line to Kellet's Gap and thence to the Sanitarium are shortly to be erected on the receipt of the necessary stores.

11. The stations to be opened on mobilization, to which lines have been laid, are as follows:-

No. I Section-

Infantry Camp, the telephone being looped in on the local Royal Artillery

circuit.

No. II Section---

Fire Commander's post at Belchers.

Section Commander, Mount Austin Barracks.

Outpost on Mount Davis.

Howitzer position at Mountain Lodge and High West.

No. III Section-

Section Commander at Sanitarium.

Outpost at Middle Gap.

No. IV Section-

Section Commander, Wong-nei-Cheong Gap. Outposts at Tytam Reservoir and Violet Hill.

No. V Section-

Outposts at Sywan Redoubt and Tytam Gap.

No. VI Section-

Section Commander in Camp north of Kowloon City. (Outposts not yet decided.)

Permanent shelters have been built for the telephone operators at Danger Flag and No. 12 Hills, and others are in course of construction at Wong-nei-Cheong and Middle Gaps.

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