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Show $100,000,000 SPENT BY JAPAN IN TAKING ' RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD. CHEFOO, Jan. 4 Some interesting interest-ing statistics concerning the defense of Port Arthur were brought here by the flotilla of Russian torpedo boat destroyers which carried numerous chests containing contain-ing records of Gen. Stoessel's army. Originally the army numbered 35,000. Eleven thousand have been killed, 16.000 are wounded or Kick, while 8(K remained in the forts, of whom, however, 20u0 were unable to fight. it Is learned that when Gen. Stoessr! xrote to Gen. Nogl regarding the surrender sur-render of the fortress, he said: "I havo &wu men in the forts and GOO of these are able to fight. If you do not accept my proposal, these men will die fighting, but it will cost you three times their number to kill them." During the siege 2K per cent of the garrison were put out of action. This remarkable fact was due to wounded men returning to the front. Cases have been recorded where men have gone to hospital seven times, returning convalescent convales-cent to the forts. The number of officers killed was proportionately pro-portionately greater than in any battle known to history. This was due to "the frequent lethargic condition of the men, who, without food and without sleep, moved only when led by their officers. The Russians estimate that the taking of tbe fortress has cost Japan JIOO.OOO.Ouu. |