| Japan control of Chinese Eastern Railroad to near Harbin, leaving the rest to Russia. | |
| 17. | Conference considers Article IX, indemnity, but reaches no agreement; Article X, on surrender of Russian warships interned in neutral ports, refused by Witte. |
| 18. | Article XI, limitation on Russia's naval power in Far East, produces disagreement; Article XII, on Russian Pacific fisheries, accepted unanimously. |
| Conference adjourns to August 22 at 3 p.m. | |
| 19. | Czar issues manifesto decreeing establishment of representative popular assembly in Russia. |
The Interned Russian Ships
The Russian naval ships interned in neutral ports are, one battleship, six cruisers, one gunboat, and eleven torpedo boat destroyers. They are:
Battleship
Czarevitch, 12,900 tons, interned in Kiao-Chow Bay.
Cruisers
Diana, 6,700 tons, interned at Saigon.
Askold, 5,900 tons, interned at Shanghai.
Aurora, 6,700 tons, interned at Manila.
Oleg, 6,600 tons, interned at Manila.
Zemtchug, 3,100 tons, interned at Manila.
Lena, 10,000, interned at San Francisco.
Gunboats
Mandjur, 1,200 tons, interned at Shanghai.
The eleven torpedo boat destroyers are interned at various Chinese ports.
The following table of casualties and captures during the war was prepared by the Tokio correspondent of the London Times. It is not entirely accurate, in some cases it being quite plain that he reached his total of Russian casualties by multiplying the numbers of dead the Japanese alleged they found on a field by the figure he had determined upon as the ratio of wounded to killed. But in spite of its bias the table gives facts that form a valuable addition to the chronological review:
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