Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-02

tureQ Vessels. .
In connection with the peace nego
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-
NAMED 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 Of
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 somewhat laborious calculation of
ratios between aggregate losses and
losses in commissioned rank
When the Russian figures are con-
sidered it is difficult, if not impossi-
BILE, at times, to obtain details. In
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 1899, Russian 1898.
Observation-Disclosures LAG, Russian
300.
Nanshan-Japanese 42O7, Russian
1870.
Telisz-Japanese 1853, Russian 927O
Fenshwiling Japanese III, Russian
45O
Kaiping-Japanes 299, Russian $50
observation-disclosures 299, Russian
1000.
Kinotao-Japanese 42S, Russian
1000.
shichiao-Japanese 1877, Russian
1000.
Observation-Disclosures $50, Russian
1850.
Yushulingtsz and Yangtezling-Jap
anese GAG, Russian 2000
Liaoyang- japanese 1858, Russian
$4,000
shaho-Japanese 1879, Russian
59,2O1.
Forty-six skirmishes - Japanes
1000, Russian 1000
skirmishes after Shaho-Japanes
200 Russian 1896.
Newchwang-Ja Japanese 25O, Russian
500.
Acknowledgements 5000, Russia
10000.
Skirmishes between Heikautai an
Mukden-Japanes $50, Russian 1921
Mukden-Japanese $4,000, Russia
152,5OO.
Chanatu-Japanese 100, Russia
800.
Fakumun-Japanes so, Russia
$40.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rs, Russian SO'
Yingeching Japanese 20, Russia
600.
Weiyuantaumun - Japanese Il
Russian 240.
Port Arthur-Japanese 10000, Ru
sian 10000.
Naval asualties-Japanese 361
Russian 5000.
This makes total of 1875 for u
Japanese and 329,779 for the Russian
OF prisoners reports show GAS Jap
nese taken and 67,701 as the numb'
of Russian prisoners.
This brings the grand total on u
Japanese side up to 167,4O2; on u
Russian side up to 38S,4SO.
Turning to the question of materi
of war the story of the Russian nav
squadron is told as follows;
Battleships sunk, IL; displacemer
144,95S tons.
Armored cruisers, 5; displacemer
3S,979
Caaqoinq coast defense ironclads,