WAR APPENDIX
| Japanese torpedo three Russian destroyers outside Port Arthur. | |
| 27. | Japanese, under General Oku, after severe fighting, drive the Russians back from their positions at Tashichiao. |
| Japanese occupy New Chwang. | |
| 26- | 30.Japanese capture Wolf Hill at Port Arthur after severe fighting. General Stoessel retreats towards Port Arthur. |
| 27. | Steamer Malacca released at Algiers. |
| 28. | M. von Plehve, Russian minister of the interior, assassinated by a bomb at St. Petersburg. |
| 31. | Japanese advance all along the line. Russians driven in on Hai-Cheng and other positions south of Liao-Yang. |
| 1. | Sortie of torpedo boats from Port Arthur. |
| 2. | Hai-Cheng evacuated by the Russians. |
| 3. | Japanese occupy Hai-Cheng. |
| 5. | Sea and land attack on Port Arthur, Green and Christ Hills, north and northeast of the city, taken. |
| 7. | Japanese land troops in Louisa Bay, west of Port Arthur. |
| 10. | Sortie by the Port Arthur fleet. Admiral Togo attacks and disperses ships, seriously damaging five battleships. Admiral Witoft killed. Russian vessels take refuge in the neutral ports—the Czarevitch at Tsingtay, the Askold and Grozsovoi at Shanghai, the Diana at Szigon, and the Ryeshitelni at Che Foo—but the majority are driven back into Port Arthur. |
| 11. | A Russian destroyer stranded twenty miles east of Wei-Hai-Wei. |
| Lord Lansdowne makes a statement in the House of Lords with regard to contraband. | |
| 12. | Japanese violate Chinese neutrality by entering the harbor of Che Foo and cutting out the Russian destroyer Ryeshitelni. |
| Son born to the czar. | |
| 12. | Admiral Rojestvensky assumes command of the Baltic fleet. |
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