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10. He will in addition form sub-depôts for the various sections of the defence, as under, where one week's rations of preserved meat, biscuits, groceries, potatoes, onions, and fuel for British troops will at once be stored, and one week's rations for native troops, according to scale, which are not perishable.
No. I Section at the corrugated iron huts on the rifle range. No. II Section one sub-depôt near Thirleston Peak House. Lower Belchers.
No. III Section at Magazine Gap.
No. IV Section at Wong-nei-Cheong Gap.
No. V Section at the Taikoo sugar refinery.
One sub-depôt at
No. VI Section at section headquarters camp, north of Kowloon City.
11. The rations stored at the various sections will be treated as a reserve, fresh supplies being distributed daily from the main depôts. When the reserves are on any occasion necessarily drawn upon, they will be made up to the full week's supply as soon afterwards as possible.
12. The Victoria main depôt will be under the charge of the O.C.A.S.C., while that at Kowloon will be under the charge of the Inspector of Army Schools, who will take up his quarters and establish his office in one of the blocks in Whitfield Barracks.
13. The Victoria main depôt, acting a main artery, will feed the sub-depôts on the island of Hong Kong. In similar manner the Kowloon main depôt will feed the sub- depôts on the main land and Stonecutters, the O.C.A.S.C. apportioning the requisite transport, i.e., launches, cargo-boats, and water-boats for this purpose.
14. The O.C.A.S.C. will detail an assistant to be in charge of each sub-depôt, utilizing the services of such civilians as may volunteer for this purpose.
15. The O.C.A.S.C. will, if the troops have been mobilized, intimate to the Officers commanding sections the strength of the guards he will require for the protection of the stores at the sub-depôts.
16. He will, in the case of the sub-depôts being formed prior to mobilization, indent on the C.S.O. for these guards, which will in this case be detailed from the troops allotted to the various sections.
17. Table C (iii) shows:-
(1.) The supplies required for the European troops, the native troops, and the Chinese auxiliaries permanently employed.
(2.) The further quantities to be laid in, in case of expected war, to complete two months' reserve, and the cost thereof.
(3.) The steps necessary for procuring such additional supplies, how and whence they are to be procured.
On mobilization the A.S.C. will ration troops at the sections, requisitions for rations for the whole of his section being furnished daily by Commanders of Sections, and not by corps individually. Such requisitions will, in the case of the sections on the island, be submitted to the O.C.A.S.Č., Victoria; and, in the case of sections on the main land and Stonecutters, to the O.C.A.S.C., Kowloon.
18. The Inspector of Army Schools, the Schoolmaster, and the Instructor of Gymnasia will be at the disposal of the O.C.A.S.C. assistants, to carry out any orders necessary in connection with A.S.C. duties.
19. The second senior officer A.S.C. will act generally as assistant to the O.C.A.S.C. His services would be chiefly utilised in paying visits to the various sub- depôts.
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