Other soldiers learned other things, for an example the French-Canadian signalman Georges "Blacky" Verreault was introduced for the first time to the distinctive language of the English-Canadian soldiers, which mostly involved using the word fuck as much as possible with one soldier telling him the proper way to ask for butter was to say: "Please, private, kindly pass the fucking butter or for fuck's sake, give me that lovely piece of cake". Upon landing in Kowloon harbour on 16 November, the C Force were personally greeted by Sir Mark Young, the governor of Hong Kong, and Major-General Christopher Maltby, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Hong Kong. The first action of C Force was to march down the Nathan Road in Hong Kong accompanied by a British Army brass band playing martial music. The next day, Lawson toured Hong Kong with Maltby to survey the lay of the land and to establish the best places for defensive positions in Hong Kong. They did not have their full equipment: a ship carrying all their vehicles was diverted to Manila when war began. The soldiers were still undergoing training and acclimatisation. Lawson suggested that a third battalion from Canada would be arriving soon to make up a full brigade. Maltby had initially planned to defend only Hong Kong island and to abandon Kowloon and the New Territories, but with the arrival of the two extra battalions from Canada now felt he had enough troops to man the Gin Drinkers' Line that formed the frontier with China. Lawson had no disagreement with Maltby's plans, and reported to Ottawa that he believed that Hong Kong if invaded could hold out for months. C Force was stationed at the Shamshuipo camp of spacious and comfortable huts built in the 1920s which however lacked toilets. As the daily wage for a servant in Hong Kong was 25 cents per day, every soldier had a servant assigned to him who shaved his face and washed their uniforms, leading men who had lived through the Great Depression to perceive life in Hong Kong as the height of luxury, though the absence of toilets' together with the daily rounds of the nightsoil trucks were considered to be revolting. The majority of the men liked Hong Kong, seen as an exotic "Eastern" city full of Western comforts. A great many of the soldiers had grown up in the small towns