The Russian General Staff gives the losses in the battle of Mukden, from February 19 to March 19, as two generals, 1,985 staff and other officers, 87,677 men, of whom the greater number were wounded; thirty-two guns and no siege artillery or ammunition carts.
April 26.—Rojestvensky cuts the Hainan cable to conceal his movements.
April 27.—Rojestvensky’s fleet drawn up outside Kamranh Bay, awaiting the arrival of Nebogatoff’s division of the Russian Pacific squadron.
May 6.—Marshal Oyama extends his lines on the Russian right wing.
Russian torpedo boat destroyers sink a Japanese sailing vessel.
General Foreign News
April 8.—Four hundred persons are killed or wounded by the collapse of a reservoir in Madrid, Spain.
The Newfoundland Lower House passes a bill to exclude American vessels from Newfoundland fisheries.
April 9.—The estimated number of lives lost in the earthquake in India is 15,000.
April 10.—Joseph H. Choate, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, has been elected a “Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple.”