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Show A contemporary thinks it ridiculous to conv- 'H pare the fighting of the Russians at Vafangow ' H with the lighting of those Russians who were at H Borldino whete the Russians suffered a loss, in H killed and wounded of 50,000 men But at Bor- H idino the Russians had 140,000 men engaged, so ' H I Hh', 'a'i their loss was n little loss than 3G per cent of l!'f "Jil their army. H flj It has not been told how many men General H Slakleberg had at Vafangow, but probably not H' S jl! more than two corps, or say 30,000 or 40,000 men. B , The Japanese report that they have burlod near- Hf I" 1 ly 1.G00 Russians and are still finding dead Cos- Hj, W sacks, and that many of the dead and wounded B' i , Russians were carried off the field. This would B j, indicate a loss in killed and wounded of quite H 4 ; 10,000, 33 per cent if 30,000, or 25 per cent if B ( i, f 40,000, which is equal to the loss of the allies in B i their three days fight at Waterloo. But as we B ?H read the story of the correspondent he referred B ' ij ' merely to that spirit of the Russian fighting. B jl They went into the battle singing; they stood the B l three days' pounding of the enemies' batteries, B if finally took the offensive, drove back the Japan- B est that were assailing their right, "annihilating B I two Japanese battalions," and finally when the B 'ttj , Japanese reinforcements come in overwhelming B ' y ' numbers, turning the tide of battle, without any B f, ! panic sullenly withdrew. The war is evidently B j, nearlng the point when something as big as H iip Borodino may be looked for. IB |
