THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 3 July 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1906.

Aooordlng to the Japan Daily Mail a good deal of confusion baa exiated in tbe pablio mind as to Japaneje casualties in tbe war, and the paper has, therefore, prepared an interesting list of the losses from all causes, whiah is vcaohed for as being approximately acourate. Tne figures are:—Killed in battle, 47,387; died of wounds wounded and recovered, 161,925; total killed and wounded, :220,818; died of sickness, 27,158; sick and recovered, 209,065; total of killed, wounded and slok, 457,035; total of fatal casualties, 86,045. One learns from the figures that the victory of Tsushima cost but 122 lives

on the Japanese sido, but that, aa the war progressed on land, the losses became greater. The battles of IJeikautai and Mukden, and the subsequent minor engagements up to the end of the war, cost Japan more lives than did the whole previous campaign from the Yalu to Mukden, with «ts six important fights, and with the siege of Port Arthur. JFrom the losses suffered at Heikautni and Mukden, remarks the Japan Daily Mail, "some idea may he gathered of what it would have ooat to continue the campaign > against Hurbin and Vladivostock—• to continue it for the sake of a pecuniary payment " Of the sick and wounded treated in hospital in the war with China, 14 2-1 per cent, died, whil<* in the reoent war the percentage was 7.65. The percentage of deaths from wounds, however, shows"an improvement of only 0.66, which is not held to imply a correspondingly alight improvement in surgery, but to testify to the greater obstinacy displayed by the Russians than by the Chinese. In the former war the resistance was slight, and the wounded could be speedily succoured; at Port Arthur wounded lay unteuded for nine days. But perhaps tho most interesting feature of the returns is that the average monthly percentage of sickness during the war was actually loss than the percentage during an exceptionally favourable yea>" of peace. Tho average monthly percentage for the war was 8.69, and for 1902 was 10.21. This astonishing result was obtained by instructing the meD in the preservation of health, supplying them with medicine, carefully looking after their food and water, and providing them I with suitable clothes. The only thing that baffled the doctors was berri-berri.