They had two distanct objectives, the plane on which the two big guns are situated and "& lower Plane where there are four smaller ones. Attention was firat directed to the former and puff after puff of black amoke rose in column and spread fan-shaped from, apparently, exactly the same spot. At whet moment the gun on one's right was hit one could not be sure, though one imagined at the time that one saw it actually strike home Very shortly afterwards, at any rate, the puffs of smoke came from lower down. Stretched on rock, the valley below sun-lit and unconcerned, one listened to the' hills taking up and passing on, till it became a low murmur, the deep booms that rose from the sea. And always, bong before the echo had died away, the lower plane of the fort, like some huge monster, showed where it had received its wound.
Two guns out of ths four were hit. What damage was done to a neighbouring fort, Siaochanshan, is not) known, but, when the smoke had cleared from the first shot planted there, it was plain that the utmost confusion prevailed.
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