"B" Battalion in Test of Police Liaison Scheme:
Manceuvres in Western Areas Imaginary mobs and riotous crowds hada bad time of it on March 10. In the Western District. Not only had they to turn out in cold and wet weather that certainly was not imaginary, but they had to face 8 determined force made up of police offers of the district concerned, "B" Battalion of the Shanghai Volunicers, and the Russian Regiment, reinforced by the Transport, Signals and terpreter Companies, who were In no mood for any funny business. It ig perhaps rather fortunate for the mobs that they were only imaginary, being conceived in the minds of the police wid S.V.C. Headquarters ost. the effectiveness of the Police-SV.C. Liaison Scheme.
The manceuvres were similar to. the "combined evening—internal security exercises held during the middle of last month by Battalion in the Central District, being designed to give the authorities concerned a practical idea of the good and bad features of the liaison theme as it is at present drawn up, they lasted from pam: to 10.20 pin.
"The areas used inthe exorcise, which included the practice of the Dallalion, communication, supplies and transport, were the Pootoo, Gordon Road, Bubbling Well and' Sinza districts. At pin, a detachment of the. Russian Regiment arrived lorries at the Gordon Road Police Station, and within a short while had been despatched {0 the Pootoo, Bubbling Well and Sinza police stations, Teaving the senior officer in the Gordon Road station and one sentry fon guard outside his door.
"The Russian Regiment platoons were given various instructions by the police officers of the different stations to which they were allached, being called upon to dismiss imoginary crowds and guard mills and other Important places In the area, For instance, one platoon mounted guard over the Power Company's "sub: Station in Tonquin Road, next to the Nagai Wata Kaisha cotton mills; another unit was sent to the Kiachow Road waterworl: s; while yet a third was to be found on duty at the Hart Road tram terminus, to the no small merest of an extraordinarily large crowd of school children and Infants, Who crowded the side-walks to stare at the men in khaki.
The Mobilization Meanwhile, "B" Battalion, consist ing of the 'American, Portuguese, Philippine and American Machine Gun 'Companies, were mobilizing une der the command of Major G. M. Neal, 0. C. the battalion, in the rereation' ground of the SM.C. Polyteehile Public School for Chinese, at the comer of Pakhoi and Kwangse Roads, which is the assembly area for this. particular section of the volunteer corps. They were reinforced by platoons of the (Chinese) Interpreter Company, who were later: attached to all bodies of troops with the especial duty of allaying the! fears of any of the inhabitants in the manoeuvre area who might be alarmed at the sudden display of force.
Buck at SV.C. Headquarters in the Administration Building, a car pool of the transport lorries was being! formed, together with the establishing of communications with the battalion and the fitting up of the companies'
and 0 on. fed kitchens, the loading of stores Shortly after 6.20 pin, Major Neal reported that the battalion was mobilized and ready. Lorries soon arrived from headquarters, and 'Major Neal was instructed to inform the various police stations of his whereabouts, orders were soon forthcoming for him to relieve elements of the Russian Regiment. Emergency falls were put through for him to send troops' to the various centres until the Whole of the battalion was action.
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