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

28 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

pursued the enemy and harvested the fruits of the victory of
the previous day. They captured two battleships and three
other ships and sank two cruisers and several other ships.
One battleship and two cruisers which were disabled the day
before were also sunk. The Russian commander-in-chief, who
had been transferred to one of his destroyers, was made our
prisoner during the second day of the sea fight. Thus, out of
the thirty-eight Russian warships which participated in the
engagement, only a few each of cruisers, destroyers and other
classes of ships escaped sinking or seizure. One cruiser and
one destroyer only escaped to Vladivostok. The Japanese
Navy lost no other ships except the three torpedo boats already
mentioned. The world looked upon this miraculous victory
of ours with astonished eyes.
The issue of the Russo-Japanese War was practically
decided by the battle of Mukden on land and by the battle of
Tsushima on sea. The military and naval forces, of Japan,
however, opened activities against Russian possessions from
this time. Our army in north Korea, under cover of the navy,
marched in June to invade the Russian territory across the
Tumen River. Our troops dispatched to Karafuto (Saghalien)
obtained possession of the whole island in July, while our
navy was also operating upon the coast of the littoral provinces
of Russia. Immediately after the battle of Tsushima, however, President Roosevelt of the United States of America tendered his good offices to restore peace between Japan and Russia. Both belligerents intimated acceptance of the offer, and
appointed plenipotentiaries who met to negotiate peace at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 9, 1905. On September
I, the plenipotentiaries of the two powers signed a treaty of
truce, and on September 5 a treaty of peace.
In conclusion, we add a brief remark about the strength
of the Japanese forces employed in this war. The accurate
figures are, of course, inaccessible. But according to our
investigations, the whole land forces put in service in the
Russo-Japanese War comprised 17 divisions of active service
troops and first reservists, 2 divisions of second reservists, 4