There were 15,000 sick and wounded in the permanent, 5,500 in the extemporized hospitals. Total, 20,500 sick. As 24,000 men marched to the village of Chilindzui as prisoners, 5,000 of these must have been able to walk. This led to a curious contretemps, for in the terms of surrender it had been stipulated that not more than 9,000 men would march out. The Japanese had accordingly made arrangements to handle and ration that number, and were quite nonplussed when they found that the 9,000 had increased to 24,000. While they were making the necessary arrangements to deal with these 15,000 extra mouths the exodus was stopped, and Smirnoff spent these last three days in his old quarters. [Illustration: THE FORTRESS OF PORT ARTHUR] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 54: In addition to this, 422,000 pounds of flour and 1,201,600 pounds which arrived in the _King Arthur_ are still in hand.] INDEX Aide-de-Camp to the Czar, Stössel and Semenoff appointed, 181 Ammunition, small arm, deficient, 4; blank, fired from big guns, 7; runs short at Battle of Kinchou, 72; estimate of expenditure of (up to September 21), 196; waste of, 201, 219; amount available (December 8), 271; list of guns (on outbreak of war), 369 Angle Hills, 106, 135; Japanese attack repulsed, 158; loss of, 166; anger of Smirnoff, 166 Armament of the Fortress, 369 (Appendix II.); list of guns, authorized and actual, 369; allotment (in sections) of guns, 369 Artillery, Kwantun Fortress, report on the, by Major-General Biely, 364 (Appendix II.) Artillerymen, Russian, endurance of, 64 _Askold_, the, 153 Assaults, the great August, 183; of October 30, 119, 220; repulsed, 221; of November 24, 239 Attack of blockers fails (March 25), 29; on Green Hills (July 26), 113 _et seq._; of August 19, 164; and subsequent days, 183 B Battery, storming of, 220; state of, 230; assault of, November 24, 239 _Bayan_, the, in action of April 12, 34; sinking of, 256 Bazilevsky, General, 194 Biely, General, 1, 29, 175, 199; at last meeting of Council of Defence, 304; his opinion, 307; his report (after the war), 364 Big Eagle's Nest, storming of, 322; loss of, 324 _Boevoy_, the, loss of, 110 Bogdanovitch, his absurd congratulations to Stössel, 18 Bombardment (naval) of February 9, 7; March 10, 21; April 15, 36; October, 26 to 29, 219, 220, 221 (land), fears of, 105; commences August 7, 140; system of, 148 Bomb-proofs constructed by inhabitants, 105; Stössel discourages, 106 Borodatoff, Lieutenant, death of, 110 _Boyarin_, the, 6 Butusoff, Colonel, in the defence of Green Hills (July 26), 117, 119; in the defence of 203 Metre Hill, 253; death of, 254 Capitulation signed, 332; its effect, 332, 333 'Caponier,' meaning of, xi (Preface) Cattle allowed to be driven away, 40