Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — War and Election. [ARTICLE]

War and Election.

Since the commencement of the TtaagoJapanese war a careful account of tlie Russian losses, as reported in a London pro-Japanese paper, and also of the Japanese losses, as claimed by an important Russian daily, have been kept by one vho delights in having “figures to prove it by” on all occasions. The result is much like the claims of opposing political armies, (luring the week preceding election. as may he seen. Up to the present time the Russians have lost 4.379,700 men. according to Japanese statements, while the Japanese, according (o Russian statements, have lost 5.728,800 —these on land alone. On tlie sea. according to the same statements. the Russians have lost 848 vessels and the Japanese 732.