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CHAPTER III (E).
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Officers of the R.E. Supernumerary Staff, five sappers linesmen from the Fortress Company R.E., and two permanently employed Chinese civilians.
The O.C.S.M. will engage eight English-speaking Chinese coolies to be detailed as messengers as in Table Ě (iii), and will also engage coolies as necessary to assist the linesmen while connecting up.
Table E (i) shows the distribution of telephone operators for ordinary administra- tive work.
Table E (ii) shows the distribution of the R.E. Telephone Staff during the first day while the mobilization is being completed, which will occupy four to five hours from time the operators report at the Telegraph School.
Table E (iii) shows the distribution of all parts, including operators, orderlies, and messengers after all the telephones have been connected up.
Table E (i).—DISTRIBUTION of Telephone Operators for ordinary Administrative work.
Place.
Headquarter Exchange
Paid Operators.
Operators supplied by Units or Officers
concerned.
Remarks.
R.A. Guard-room, Stonecutters
R.A. Guard-room, Belchers
1
Guard-room, Mount Austin, R.W.F.
No paid operators during
mobilization.
Orderly-room, Whitfleld Barracks, Kowloon..
2
R.A. Guard-room, Lyemun
Becomes
Section.
headquarters of
Ordnance office..
Guard-room, Murray Barracks
Barrack store
Main Guard
G.O.C.s. house
·
Victoria Barracks
Laboratory
New Magazine
Station Hospital
O.C. Submarine Miners
Guard-room, Kellets Island
C.S. Officer's office
Operators arranged by officers
concerned.
Table E (ii).-DISTRIBUTION of N.C. Officers and Men for connecting up Telephones
on Mobilization.
Place.
R.E.
Headquarters
No. I Section, Stonecutters
No. II Section, the Peak, Belchers, &c.
No. III Section, Mount Cameron
No. IV Section, Wong-Nei-Cheong Gap
and Tytam Reservoir
No. VI Section, Kowloon
No. V Section, Lyemun
1 N.C.O.
1 Sapper
1
1 N.C.O.
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1 Sapper
1
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Coolies permanently employed
Coolies temporarily employed.
Remarks.
as wire men.
1
2
3*
Assisted by the Infantry
clerks.
* Number may be increased if desired at discretion of the O.C.S.M.
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