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WAR APPENDIX

6. Japanese occupy Akasayama, Port Arthur.
Rojestvensky at Great Fish Bay.
11. Rojestvensky at Angra Pequena.
12. Cruiser Takasago sunk by mine off Port Arthur.
12- 15.Torpedo attacks on the Sevastopol in outer harbor of Port Arthur.
18. Tungkeekwanshan Fort taken.
19. Rojestvensky passes Cape Town.
Japanese seize the British steamer Nigretia bound for Vladivostock.
22. Japanese occupy Hon-san-yang-tau, near Pigeon Bay.
Japanese squadron reported off Singapore.
North Sea Commission of Inquiry meets in Paris and adjourns to January 9.
22- 25.Japanese dislodge several Russian outposts at Port Arthur.
24. Admiral Togo reduces the blockading squadron.
28. Capture of Ehrlungshan.
31. Capture Sungshooshan.

Surrender of Port Arthur

January1905
1. General Stoessel proposes and General Nogi accepts surrender of Port Arthur.
Four Russian destroyers escape to Che-Foo.
Rojestvensky arrives at Ile Sainte Marie, off Madagascar.
2. Port Arthur capitulation agreement signed.
3. Flökersam's division of the Baltic fleet arrives at Passandava Bay, Madagascar.
4. Itszshan and other forts delivered to Japanese as guarantee of capitulation.
5. Meeting of Nogi and Stoessel.
Official report by General Nogi places the surrendered garrison at 32,207 prisoners and over 15,000 sick and wounded.
6. Prisoners march out of Port Arthur.
8. Supplementary division of Baltic fleet leaves Suda Bay.
9. International Commission of Inquiry into North Sea incident resumes its sittings.
10. Supplementary squadron of Baltic fleet (Admiral Botrovosky) at Port Said.

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