In Port Arthur 20,000 Outside Port Arthur: Inchentse, Nangalin, etc. 5,000 At Dalny and Talienwan 6,000 At Feng-Huang-Cheng 1,250 At Antung-Hsun 500 At or near Kaichiao, etc. 300 At Waffientien, Kinchow, Tashichiao, and Yingkow 1,000 On the Yalu River 5,000 At Haicheng 3,000 At and near Liaoyang 4,000 Along the Peking Road to the Yalu 8,000 At Mukden 600 At and near Tehling and vicinity of Mukden 3,000 At Kuan Chentse and Kirin 2,500 At Vladivostok 12,000 At Nikolskoe, Spasskaya, etc. 6,000 In Eastern Siberia, N.W. of Vladivostok 8,000 At Harbin 4,000 At Fu-li-ahdé 1,000 At Blagoveshchensk, Stretensk and Chita 8,000 Railway Guards 70,000 Reserves in camp 31,000 _En route_ 2,000 -------- Total force 202,150 The Railway Guards include the riflemen who accompanied each train; the patrol for about 1,400 miles of railway line; the garrisons of the block-houses at each tenth verst; and the details posted at every railway station and siding. The number is probably understated. At the commencement of the war the patrols were doubled and the number of guards was increased. Russian military opinion seemed to indicate that the garrisons in Manchuria were sufficient for defensive purposes. The troops were being advanced towards the Yalu, that is to say, the Korean frontier, and the largest offensive force was being concentrated in Fengtien Province along the old Peking highway from Liaoyang to the mountain passes on the Manchurian side of the Yalu; thither munitions and stores were being conveyed all through the winter, averaging in January about 700 tons a day.