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

30 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

NAVAL FORCES EMPLOYED AND LOST
Employed Lost
Classes
No. of ships Tonnage No. of ships Tonnage
Battleships................. 6 85,043 2 27,320
Armored coast defense ships.... 2 I,447.....
Armored cruisers............ 8 72,915.....
Cruisers.................. 7 61,961 2 8,320
Dispatch boats.............. 4 5,487 I 1,772
Depot ships for torpedo boats.. I 4,I20....
Gunboats................... 9 7,870 3 3,404
Coast defense ships.......... 3 5,576 2 3,798
Destroyers.................. 22 7,2IO 2 738
Total................... 72 261,629 12 45,352
Torpedo boats............... 50 5,429 7 558

The navy lost 2,657 persons, of whom 2,010 were killed in
battle and 647 died from disease.
RESULTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
It was the Russo-Japanese treaty of peace signed on September 5, I905, and the Sino-Japanese treaty signed on December 23, 1905, in connection with this treaty of peace that
confirmed the altered situation in the Far East in consequence
of the war between Japan and Russia. A survey of the Far
Eastern relations thus established shows that the material
and moral interests secured by Japan were not at all inconsiderable. It came to be recognized that Japan had paramount political, military and economic interests in Korea
and that she had the right to take the necessary measures for
guidance, protection and control in Korea. Recognition of
this fact and right had already been made by Great Britain
in the new Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty, prior to the conclusion of peace between Japan and Russia.
The Russian influence thus absolutely expelled from Korea,
the country came under the protection of Japan. In Manchuria, Japan received the transfer from Russia of the lease
of Port Arthur and Tailien, together with the Russian rail