Chapter XLIX: Section 5: Sectors 11 and 12

_Kinchou._

The following were sent to and mounted on the Kinchou position in February:

42-line guns 2} 6-inch field howitzers 6} Light field guns 16} Chinese 87-millimetre quick-firing guns } 44 guns 12} Chinese 87-millimetre guns 8} 3-line maxims 6 Rocket troughs 8

Ammunition was sent to bring up the number of rounds per gun as follows:

Rounds. 42-line, light, and 87-millimetre non-cartridge guns 200 6-inch field howitzers 155 87-millimetre cartridge guns 140 Rockets 400

To fight the guns at Kinchou, a provisional company was formed of 4 officers and 392 non-commissioned officers and men. In February the Port Arthur Sortie Battery of eight 3-inch quick-firing guns and a provisional field battery of four 57-millimetre Chinese guns were also organized.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 50: Figures are given exactly as in the Report.]

[Footnote 51: For table of British equivalents see p. 385.]

[Footnote 52: By this table, the armament was 201 guns short of its proper number, and of the 413 only 110 were mounted.]

[Footnote 53: This does not exactly agree with the map supplied by the author.--E. D.S.]