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

26 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Fushun from the east and swept round the enemy's flank;
our extreme left turned eastward to outflank the enemy and
threaten his rear after crossing the Hun-ho and taking Shinmintun in the northwest; while our center and right flank
advanced east of the railway and our left flank west of the
railway, to hold the Russian center. In the progress of the
battle each of the Japanese armies took the enemy's positions
one by one. On March 5 our forces were hotly engaged along
the whole front, making violent attacks upon the enemy. On
March 7 the Russians began to retreat and the attacks of our
armies increased in violence. On the 8th, theJapanese left flank
approached Mukden in pursuit of the enemy, while our corps
on the extreme left pressed on the rear of the Russians, capturing the railway north of Mukden. On the 9th, our extreme
right took possession of Fushun. On the Ioth, our center
and part of the left flank fell directly upon Mukden and occupied it. Thus the great battle of Mukden ended in complete
victory for the Japanese. The Russian losses in this battle
were about 137,700 killed and wounded, while over 20,700
were taken prisoners.
The Japanese armies went in pursuit of the retreating
Russians. The enemy had defense works constructed on the
way which well covered the retreat of his troops. Our forces
took Yingpan on the i th of March, Hsingking on the I3th,
Tiehling on the I6th, Fakumen on the i8th and Kaiyuan
on the g9th. Then the Japanese armies kept up their advance
northward, pursuing the enemy by the four routes of the Kaiyuan-Kilin, Fukumen-Changtu, Fushun-Hailung, and Hsingking-Tinghua roads.
To return to the operations of our navy: Though, after the
annihilation of the Russian squadron at Port Arthur, the
absolute command of the sea in Far Eastern waters fell into
our hands, the enemy squadron at Vladivostok had made
frequent sorties into the Sea of Japan. In the excursion
in June, 1904, it had sunk three Japanese military transports,
including the Hitachi Maru, in the Straits of Tsushima, and
had also injured our merchant vessels in the northern part