BESIEGERS' CASUALTIES 55,000.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1905, Page 5

BESIEGERS' CASUALTIES 55,000.

TWO MONTHS' PROVISIONS FOUND. LONDON, January 15. The casualties sustained by the besieging; uar from the battle of • NaiuhAn to the capitulation nnm- ; bered flfty-fl-re thousand, of whom : one-ftfth were hilled. I The Port Arthur correspondent Jof the Times says that at the beginning of the siege there were fifty-fire thousand Russian soldiers, sailors and civilians in Port Arthur, and that tern thousand : were hilled or died of disease. There are, he says, no signs of ! the garrison having suffered privations, and the food found by the Japanese -would have sufficed, for another two months. RUSSIAN INHUMANITY. i JAPANESE WOUNDED LEFT j TO DIE. 75 ALIVE OUT OF HUNDREDS. LONDON, January 15. The Times' correspondent at Tβ- : hio says that the total number of Japanese military prisoners found in Port Arthur was Tβ. The fact that so few of their fol- ! diers were made prisoners has been received -with deep emotion by the people of Japan. It is believed that hundreds of Japanese soldiers who fell within the Russian lines mast hare been allowed to perish.