The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-09-01
RESULT OF EAST WAR
COMPARISON MADE OF men LOST
ON BOTH Sides.
Figures Compiled at Toxic Are Inter
esting-Russia's Losses Said to be
Far in Excess of the Japanese-Jap
Navy Has Been Increased by Cap
tured Vessels.

tiations the estimates of Japanese and
Russian losses during the war, just
compiled at Toxic, are interesting in
the extreme But the task of COM
pilation has not been easy. With re-
gard to casualties on the Japanese
side tolerably accurate statistics were
published throughout 1904, although
even in that period there were quite
a number of skirmishes which re-
manned without exact returns. But
from the beginning of the current year
the Japanese would seem to have
concluded that in these matters Sc
crecy is the wiser policy. Possibly IN
view of the fact that the Russians OBJ
served reticence the Japanese decided
not to be needlessly frank. At all
events they have never made any or
fetal statement of the total casualties
during the seige of Port Arthur or IN
the great battle of Mukden. In these
cases, therefore, recourse must be had
to private intelligence, supplemented
by a somewhat laborious calculation OF
ratios between aggregate losses ana
losses in commissioned rank.
When the Russian figures are con-
sidered it is difficult, if not impossi-
BILE, at times. to obtain details. In a
large number of instances there is no
guide except the dead bodies aban-
doned on the field, and these must al
ways have been considerably below
the actual total of killed, while official
returns, seldom published, were gen
orally proved to err greatly on the
side of under statement. Therefore
the figures set down in the Russian
column must be considered merely in
the minimum.
Casualties TabuIated.
Following are the best obtainable
statistics of casualties, the Japanese
given first, the Russians second:
Yalu-Japanese 1889, Russian 1898.
Observation-Disclosures 146, Russian
300.
Nanshan-Japanese 42O7, Russian
1910.
Telisz-Japanese 1853, Russian 927O.
shwiling-Japanese III, Russian
$50.
Acknowledgements 299, Russian $50.
Motienling 299, Russian
1000.
Kinotao-Japanese 423, Russian
1000.
Tashichiao-Japanese 1877, Russian
1000.
Observation-Disclosures $50, Russian
1850.
Yushulingtsz and Yangtezling-Ja
anese 946, Russian 1000.
Observation-Disclosures 1858, Russian
$4,000.
Shaho-Japanese 1879, Russian
59,2O1.
Forty-six skirmishes Japanese
1000, Russian 1000.
Skirmishes after Shaho-Japanese
200, Russian 395.
observation-disclosures $50, Russian
500.
Acknowledgements 5000, Russian
1000.
Mukden-Japanese $50, Russian 1925.
Acknowledgements $500, Russian
152,50O.
Chanatu-Japanese 100, Russian
800.
Acknowledgements so, Russian
$40.
Acknowledgements Is, Russian 500.
observation-disclosures 20, Russian
600.
Weiyuantaumun - Japanese 215,
Russian 240.
Port Acknowledgements $4,000, Rus
sian 10000.
Naval casualties-Japanese 1910,
Russian 5000.
This makes total of 1876 for the
Japanese and 329779 for the Russians.
Of prisoners reports show GAG Japa-
nese taken and 67,701 as the number
of Russian prisoners.
This brings the grand total on the
Japanese side up to 167,402; on the
Russian side up to 3S8,4S0.
Turning to the question of material
of war the story of the Russian naval
squadron is told as follows:
Battleships sunk, -; displacement,
144,95S tons.
Armored cruisers, 5; displacement,
3S,979.
Seagoing coast defense ironclads, 1;
displacement, 1926
Cruisers, 6; displacement, 26,341.
Other kinds, including converted
cruisers, IA; displacement, 25,222.
DestrOyers, 10; displacement, $685..
This makes a total of 81 boats, with
a displacement of 245,292 The broad
result is very striking. Out of total
of SO ships with a displacement of
410.224 tons sent by Russia ito the
belligerent arena only 10, with a dis
placement of 1886 tons, remain in
her fighting line.
Japanese Losses.
In a similar compilation the results
as far as the Japanese navy is con-
cerned show as follows:
Battleships, 2; displacement, 27,757.
Cruisers, 4; displacement, 1878.
Other kind. 4. disbursement. 1897