Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — JAPANESE HEROES HONORED. [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE HEROES HONORED.

Decorations for Living; and Dead Who Blocked Port Arthur. The casualties in the attempt of the Japanese fleet to block Port Arthur, which took place on May 3, arc one officer, Commander Takayangi, commanding the steamer Yedo Maru, and six men killed; four men seriously and five officers and eleven men slightly wojuided. Fourteen officers nud seventy-four men are missing and eight officers and thirtysix men were rescued uninjured. All the officers of the blocking ships, including Commander Takayangi, who was killed, have been decorated and granted annuities by the Emperor. Every supplemental report received from Gen. Kuroki, commanding the first Japanese army, increases the Russian casualties ip Sunday’s battle at Cbiu-tien-clieng, on the Yalu river. The Japanese have buried about 1,400 Russiats and have 503 of the enemy’s wounded in the field hospitals. It is estimated that the total Russian casualties exceed 2,500. Over 300 Russian prisoners were sent to Matsuyama. The official report of the Japanese casualties shows that the gunrds lost one officer and twenty men killed and had seven officers and 122 men wounded. The second division lost one officer and eighty-four men killed and thirteen officers and 305 men wounded. The twelfth division had three officers and seventysix men killed and five officers and 203 men wounded.