In consequence of the conversions and alterations in progress, the coast batteries alone had their armament. There were eighteen[53] coast batteries--Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, Artillery, Tiger's Tail, Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Two were being finished and armed--Nos. 6 and 16. The armament mounted consisted of: Mounted. 10-inch guns 5 9-inch guns 12 6-inch Canet 15 6-inch (68 cwt.) 12 57-millimetre coast guns 28 Heavy 4 11-inch howitzers 10 9-inch howitzers 24 --- Total ready for action 110 Being Mounted. 6-inch Canet 5 9-inch howitzers 8 -- Total 13 On the land front only two batteries were armed: B Battery, 6-inch guns of 68 cwt. 4 G (Sapper) Battery, 6-inch of 68 cwt. 4 -- Total guns ready for action 8 Fort 1 and B (Jagged) Battery and D Battery were under construction. There were, therefore, only eight guns mounted on the land front. * * * * * The remaining guns were distributed in parks, according to sectors or sections, near the batteries for which they were allotted--_i.e._: _Section 5_: for Fort 1 and the intermediate batteries between Battery 21 and Fort 1. The park near batteries 19 and 20 (four 6-inch of 68 cwt., eighteen light on wheeled carriages, and eight machine-guns). _Section 6_: for Fortification 1, Ta-ku-shan Hill, A and B Batteries, Fortification 2, Fort Chi-kuan-shan and Big Hill. The park near the Ice House in front of Big Hill (six 6-inch of 43 cwt., six 57-millimetre caponier, twenty-two light guns on wheels, six light guns on pedestals, eight 6-inch field howitzers, four machine-guns). _Section 7_: for Eagle's Nest, rear caponiers of Redoubts Nos. 1 and 2, Fort Erh-lung-shan, Fortification at head of Water Supply Redoubt, Fortification 3. The park near the barracks of the 7th Company (four 6-inch of 43 cwt., twenty light on wheels, four heavy, two machine-guns). _Section 8_: for C and G Batteries (Jagged and Sapper), Fort 4 and Fortification 4. The park near G Battery (eight 6-inch of 43 cwt., six 57-millimetre caponier, 24 light on wheels, four machine-guns). _Section 9_: for Forts 1 and Chi-kuan-shan, D Battery and Salt Battery, Fortification 5, and Redoubts 3, 4, and 5. The park near D Battery (six 6-inch of 68 cwt., two 57-millimetre caponier, six 42-line, six machine-guns). _In Store and in Reserve_: In the park in the Chinese arsenal, 56 light guns on wheels; sixteen 6-inch field howitzers, eighteen 42-line guns, fourteen machine-guns, four heavy guns. Thus it was intended to mount another 244 guns and 38 machine-guns on the batteries and intermediate works so soon as these were sufficiently advanced to receive them.