350 APPENDIX. 



AMMUNITION ALLOWANCE. 



Note. — Information just received that the annual allow- 

 ance of ammunition is as follows : For each infantry soldier, 

 125 ball and 100 blank cartridges ; for each cavalry soldier, 

 98 ball and 30 blank cartridges. For revolver practice — for 

 each infantry noncommissioned officer, 80 ball cartridges; 

 for each cavalry noncommissioned officer, 20 ball cartridges. 



FIELD ARTILLERY TARGET PRACTICE. 



The field artillery application school is located at Yotsu- 

 kaido, about 30 miles southeast from Tokyo, under the super- 

 intendence of Colonel Noma of the artillery, with a staff of 

 about ten instructors. The students number about 30 ; there 

 being one lieutenant from each of the regiments of artillery 

 of the twelve divisions and the imperial guard, and one lieu- 

 tenant from each of the six additional regiments of artillery 

 which constitute the two brigades of artillery, together with 

 extra officers and supernumeraries. 



The course of instruction is essentially a practical one, con- 

 sisting of instruction and practice in field and mountain artil- 

 lery, and the care of ammunition, signaling, and equitation, 

 and extends over a period of six months — from December 1 to 

 June 10 — divided into two courses of three months each. 



There are two batteries of artillery at the school, fully 

 equipped with both field and mountain guns, so that each 

 may be used as occasion requires. 



The eighteenth regiment of artillery, composed of six bat- 

 teries of six guns each (which belongs to the second brigade of 

 artillery), is also quartered here in barracks and stables adjoin- 

 ing the inclosure which comprises the school of instruction. 



The ground in the vicinity of the school extends for several 

 miles, giving an area rectangular in shape, with but few 

 clumps of trees, and fairly level ; small hummocks and shal- 

 low depressions here and there not interfering with the 

 maneuvers of artillery in any direction, presented an ideal 

 terrain for practice. 



The extreme ends of this range of open country is bounded 

 by thick groves or small forests of trees behind which, to the 

 north and -south, have been constructed high artificial em- 

 bankments of earth for the better protection of the surround- 

 ing country from the effects of artillery fire, but which are 

 not visible. 



