JAPAN has 13 regiments (117 batteries) of field artillery, each composed of 1223 men and 1405 horses. Guns of the latest Italian pattern with shields of the last model are used. There is also a new quick-firing gun, designed by Colonel Krisalt of the Japanese artily, and manufactured for Japan by Krupp. For curved fire a Krupp howitzer with a projectile weighing about 79 pounds is used. There are also six regiments of siege and garrison artillery in the Japanese establishment. Japan could send into the field. with her 140,000 men, 370 guns, leaving behind enough for the defense of the mother country.
Russi.k. The field artillery in 1900 consisted. of 461 field batteries, 15 mountain batteries, 30 horse batteries, 21 Cossack horse batteries, 27 howitzer batteries (6 guns each), and 5 sort ie ha aeries. The artillery consisted of 56 fortress battalions, 75 firing parks, and 16 emnpanios ; aggregate personnel, 5430 officers and 119.600 men. The field artillery has 3194 guns, being :3.51 guns per 1000 men in the army. l'he field artillery Ivas reorganized in 1395, both as to personnel and Ma lorio I. The prime mover in
t his I ra nsfnrIna I ion was Lieutenant-General En gelhardt, and the reorganization of the material was eon lined to modifications of the old systems. Russia was said to have ordered in 1900, 1000' six-gun batteries of new guns called the Engel hardt system. The old field guns iu Russia were MI the lirripp system. made at the Olinkkov works. The approximate extreme range Was TM yards. All batteries have six guns, and each heavy field battery carries IS projectiles in the limber and 90 in the wagons. Each light field battery has 30 projectiles in the limber and 120 in the wagons. The horse-artillery gun is similar to that of the light field artillery. but 16 inches shorter. Each battery carries 90 rounds per gun.
has adopted into her field-artillery sys tem the Vickers-Maxim 15-pounders, and she has for curved fire a bronze-steel mortar, 9 eni. t3.5 inches), and a bronze-styli Iniwitzer, 12 cm. (4.7 inches), of the Matti system. The total num ber of field guns is S16, or about 4.2S for eneh 1000 men in the army.