Show ELEVEN THOUSAND SLAIN loss of russians at port arthur be fore they surrendered some interesting statistics concern ing ng the defense of port arthur were brought to chetoko by the flotilla ol 01 russian torpedo boat destroyers which carried numerous chests containing complete records of general stoessel sels s army originally the army numbered 35 eleven thousand have been killed 16 are wounded or sick while 8 remained in the forts torts ol 01 whom however 2 were unable to fight it is learned that when general stoessel wrote to general nogi re garding the surrender of the fortress he said I 1 have 8 men in the forts and 6 66 of these are able to fight it if you do not acce accept pt my proposal these merl will die fighting but it will cost you three times their number to kill them the russians estimate that the taking of the fortress has cost japan |