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WAR APPENDIX

17.	Admiral Makaroff supersedes Admiral Starck.
	Fifty million dollar loan taken up in Japan.
19.	Twenty-five hundred Japanese troops landed at Plaksin Bay, East Korea; movement toward the west checked by snows in the mountains later.
20.	Japanese fleet bombarded Port Arthur.
	Cossacks cross the Yalu in Corea.
	Russian account of diplomatic negotiations published.
21.	Kuropatkin appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in Manchuria.
22.	Count Lamsdorff issues an explanatory circular to the Powers, charging Japan with violating international law in regard to Corea.
23.	Japanese-Corean treaty signed at Seoul, Japan guaranteeing "the independence and territorial integrity of the Corean empire."
24.	First Japanese attempt to block Port Arthur channel by sending in four old steamers loaded with stone; the plan failed.
	Thirty thousand Japanese troops deployed between Seoul and Ping-Yang.
25.	Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur repulsed.
	Viceroy Alexieff, in proclamation, warns Chinese to aid Russia or be exterminated as robbers.
	Russians cut Anju-Ping-Yang telegraph lines.

First Land Action of the War
26.	First land action of the war. Troops in touch at Ping-Yang, Corea.
29.	Japan seizes one of the Elliot Islands, belonging to China, for a naval base.

*March*
2.	Both Japan and Russia issue statements, the former saying Russia did not want peace, the latter that she could not safely evacuate Manchuria at the time pledged.
4.	More than 20,000 Japanese troops landed at Chinampo, Corea.
	Japan gives Russia the lie relating to the latter's charge of Japanese violation of international law in Corea.
6.	Japanese warships shelled Vladivostock at long range, doing little damage; Russian forts did not reply.

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