WAR APPENDIX
| 23. | Russian fleet made sortie from Port Arthur, and after declining battle with Togo's fleet, was attacked in outer harbor by Japanese torpedo boats. Togo's report that one battleship was sunk, and one, together with large cruiser, damaged, was not borne out by later news. |
| Kuropatkin takes command of the Russian army in person. | |
| 26. | The two armies face to face, Russians holding the line Kai-Chow, Tashichiao, Liao-Yang. Japanese south of Kai-Chow, Lienshan-kuan, Sa matse. |
| Japanese approach Port Arthur from the land side, and capture Hsitaushan and Kenshan. | |
| Japanese captured Russian positions at Gum-San-Shan, ten miles northeast of Port Arthur. | |
| 27. | General Kuroki's army captured Fenshui, Motien, and Dalin passes, giving them access to the valley of the Liao. |
| 28. | Japanese Sixth Division lands at Kerr Bay. |
| 30. | Vladivostock squadron bombards Wonsan Korea. |
| 1. | Vladivostock squadron eludes Admiral Kammura near Tsu Shima. |
| 3. | Russians defeated in battle at Langtse Pass, west of Motien Pass, with loss of 210. |
| 4. | Japanese captured Miao-Tsui Fort, with eight guns, four miles northeast of Port Arthur. |
| General Fock made sortie from Port Arthur, driving back the Japanese line west of the town. | |
| Russian attack on Japanese in Motien Pass repulsed, with loss of 200 men; Japanese loss 60. | |
| 5. | Japanese gunboat Kaimon sunk by mine outside Talien Bay; 22 of crew lost. |
| 4-6. | The St. Petersburg and Smolensk, cruisers of the Russian volunteer fleet, pass the Bosphorus under the commercial flag. |
| 5-7. | Sortie from Port Arthur reported to have recaptured positions on northeast with heavy loss to Japanese. |
| 6. | Marshal Oyama, commander-in-chief, leaves Tokio for the front. |
| 9. | Japanese, under Oku, capture Kai-Chow, after three days' fighting. |
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