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170 THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
cylindrical pieces of wood of about i|- ins. thick-
ness, held together by strong bamboo hoops, so
as to form a barrel about 2 ft. 2 ins. long, with
an inner diameter of about 5 ins. The barrel was
fixed to a wooden bedplate, at a constant angle of
45 degrees, and the different ranges between 50
and 200 yards were obtained by changing the
weight of the powder charges by which they were
fired.
The Japanese made acquaintance with two
other kinds of arms, which, however, only played
a very subordinate role during the fights about
Port Arthur, in these same days. After the
WOODEN MORTAR FOR DYNy^MITK BOMBS.
Shuishi lunettes had been captured, six mines
were discovered and unearthed in front of the
“ B ” and “A” lunettes, and both here and at the
Red Redoubt several fish torpedoes and two
torpedo tubes were found. The mines here were
all contact mines, and none of them were exploded
during the repeated attacks on the lunettes.
Later on, during the attacks on the permanent
forts, other mines, contact as well as electric,
were found, the majority of them being dis-
covered and made harmless before they exploded ;
a few, however, burst, but the effect was slight,
the greatest number killed by any one mine being
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