Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

INTRODUCTION

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The Japanese armies that had occupied Liaoyang started
their operations against the Russians who had retreated and
taken up their position on the Shaho. But on October io a
large body of the enemy came to attack our right wing, which
was forced to abandon the high ground east of Penchihu.
Our troops recovered the position the next morning, however,
and making a further advance reached the enemy lines on
the Shaho on October 14. The center and left wing of the
Japanese forces crushed the stubborn resistance of the enemy
and captured his positions in various places. With the reduction of Shahopao by the Japanese left wing on October 15,
the battle of Shaho which continued a week ended in a splendid victory for the Japanese. Our armies sustained in this
battle a loss of 15,800, killed and wounded, while the Russian
casualties reached 67,000.
In the land operations against Port Arthur, the Third
Army, under Lieutenant General Nogi, which had entered
Kinchowcheng as the investing force of Port Arthur, started its
movement on June 26. After severe and prolonged fighting
the Japanese wrested several of the enemy's positions, taking
possession on July 30 of a line extending from the heights
south of Tuchengtzu to the heights east of Takushan. They
now came within a few miles of the town of Port Arthur
and were in position to commence siege activity, so that the
Russians escaped and retired from the fortifications of Port
Arthur. Our army continued to attack the enemy, capturing
Takushan and Hsiaokushan on August 7 and 8. The Russian
squadron lying in the harbor of Port Arthur found the artillery
fire of the Japanese Army daily increasing in violence. To
be relieved from this intolerable situation, it put to sea under
cover of a dense fog on August Io. The Japanese fleet
encountered the enemy and inflicted heavy damage upon his
flagship and two other battleships, when two of the Russian
cruisers and several destroyers made their escape southward,
while all the rest went back into the harbor. General St6ssel, commander of the Russian garrison, refusing to accept
the permission for escape of noncombatants in the enemy