Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — RUSSIAN MUKDEN LOSSES 89,662 [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN MUKDEN LOSSES 89,662

Early Reports of Casualties Said to Have Been Overstated. An exact statement of the losse# in all categories in the battle of Mukden from Feb. 19 to March 14, compiled by the general staff, shows that the casualties were greatly overstated in earlier reports. Statements from Japanese sources indicating wholesale captures of prisoners, enormous booty and cannon are now denied. ‘ In.reality, it appears the Russian losses amounted to two generals, who were taken prisoner, 1,985 staff and other officers, and 87,677 men, of whom the greatest part, about 53,000, were wounded. Ih evacuating Mukden and retreating to the northward the Russians lost thir-ty-two guns, of which three were mortars, three old-type field guns with piston action, ants - " twenty-six guns. Of the siege artillery every gun and all the ammunition carts were sent north two days before the retreat began. Geh. Karkevitch, the chief of staff, calculates that other losses, aside from the wounded, were as follows: 15,000 7,000 to 8,000 known to have been captured and 10,000 to 12,000 missing, of whom several thousand were drivers, sanitary and commissariat corps employes and other non-combatants. The resignation of Gen. Ivuropatkin is said to have been due to a disagreement with Gen. Linevjtch over Vladivostok, the latter having decided on an offensive campaign to save the port.