Plans to Increase Effectiveness of Armament Schemes have been drawn up by: Gen, Teng Tsen-chuan, officer charge of the Woosung Forts defences, for the readjustment of affairs at the forts, says a report appearing in the Chinese press. enforced after th ne for army reorganiza~ disbandment hag been put into effect.
The more important schemes are those which are enumerated' be-
1. That more cannon capable of 10,000 metres range shall be placed in' position at the Shih-tze-ling (Lion's Forest) Fort and that the fort shall be extended; 2 That the South Fort be re= moved close to Woosung and that 4 number of cannon of less then 12 centimetres calibre shall. be placed in position -hero, or that the rth and South forts shall be Joined together and that the cannon of these two forts shall be placed under the That, in the event of an amalgamation of the North and South Forts, the new fort shall be named the Nan-shih-tang Fort and that a number of cannon with a range of more than 10,000 metres shall be placed in position: therein; 4. That a fort shall be built Hsiao Sha Pei, between the Lion's Forest and North Forts, for the discharge of torpedoes and that strong dykes. shall be built slong the Whangpoo near Paoshan-heien-The scheme provides also that the garrison of the Forts shall be not lees than a regiment, which should include aviation, railway trench, communications, searchlight yelg torogia, and bridge construe=
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