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.
The central magazines, being merely Chinese brick buildings, were in no way shell-proof; but of the numerous section magazines required to store ammunition, spare parts, etc., for the decentralized supply, only four had been built and taken over from the engineers in February, 1904 (two on the sea front, Tiger's Peninsula and Battery 17; two on the land front, Big Hill and C Battery).
Table III.
The following were the shells in the Fortress on January 14, 1904:
| Guns. | Shells. |
| 10-inch | 790 |
| 9-inch | 2,889 |
| 6-inch Canet | 4,951 |
| 6-inch (68 cwt.) | 17,512 |
| 6-inch (43 cwt.) | 10,459 |
| 42-line guns | 10,925 |
| Heavy guns | 2,409 |
| Light guns | 41,227 |
| 57-millimetre coast | 24,078 |
| 57-millimetre caponier | 3,210 |
| 11-inch howitzer | 2,004 |
| 9-inch howitzer | 7,819 |
| 6-inch field howitzer | 11,981 |
| Cartridge cases for machine-guns | 957,615 |
Table IV.
Taking all cartridges, fuzes, spare parts, and other accessory stores into consideration, the following were the rounds per gun in the Fortress on the outbreak of war:
| Guns. | Rounds per Gun. |
| 10-inch guns | 158 |
| 9-inch guns and howitzers | 243 |
| 6-inch Canet guns | 247 |
| 6-inch guns (68 cwt. and 43 cwt.) | 583 |
| 42-line and heavy guns | 370 |
| 57-millimetre coast guns | 860 |
| 57-millimetre caponier | 230 |
| Light field guns | 282 |
| 11-inch howitzers | 200 |
| 6-inch field howitzers | 500 |