ii. 183, 207

Sinope, Russian victory at, i. 15, 16, 107

Skobeleff, General, at Plevna, i. 26, 28; seizes Geok Tepe, i. 31, 85, 148

Solovieff, M., historian, the Crimean War, i. 21, 22

Sosnovski, Lieutenant-Colonel, and the Chinese, i. 92

Spade, revival in the army of the use of the, i. 142

Stössel, General: defence of Port Arthur, ii. 213; his alarmist reports, ii. 229

Subotin, General, capture of Mukden, i. 155

Sungari River, Russian withdrawal to, i. 232

Surrender, the question of, ii. 175

_Suvoroff_, Russian battleship, gallantry on the, i. 240

Suvoroff, General, his campaigns, i. 8, 10

Sviatosloff, Grand-Duke, i. 4

Sweden as Russia’s neighbour, i. 3; war with Russia, i. 12, 36; her Russian frontier, i. 40–44

Tartars as Russia’s neighbours, i. 3

Ta-shih-chiao, battle of, ii. 182

Tashkent, Russian occupation of, i. 87, 147

Tchernaya, battle of the, i. 18

Telegraph and telephones, need for, ii. 143, 144, 162

Te-li-ssu, Russian disaster at, i. 257, 258

Territorial system, the, ii. 126

Tieh-ling, retirement from, ii. 86

Timber Company, the Royal: its importance, i. 169; Bezobrazoff’s propositions, i. 172; investigation of, i. 173–184; history of, ii. 306–313

Todleben, General: Crimean War, i. 21; assault on Plevna, i. 26

Togo, Admiral: naval battle at Port Arthur, i. 238, 240

Topornin, General, ii. 276, 292, 297

Trans-Baikal Railway to Vladivostok, i. 69; capacity of, i. 247–256

Trans-Baikal Cossack, success of, ii. 153

Triple Alliance, the, i. 46, 51, 87, 113

_Trous de loup_, i. 215, 216

Trubetski, Prince, President of the Moscow nobility, correspondence with Kuropatkin, ii. 198–200

Tserpitski, General, ii. 279, 280, 290, 296, 297, 330

Tsitsihar, capture of, i. 155, ii. 322

Tsushima, defeat of Russian fleet at, i. 238–241

Turkey, and Russia, i. 3; wars with Russia, i. 6, 81–83; her army, i. 15; her peace strength, i. 15; Crimean War, i. 16; war with Servia and Russia, i. 24; Plevna, i. 25; Russian loss, i. 36; possibility of trouble with Russia, i. 58

Turkomans, Russian expedition against the, i. 30–32, 85, 86

Ujin, Colonel, his pack telephone system, ii. 143 _n._

Uniform, value of, ii. 100–103

Units, proposed details of, ii. 161–163; breakdown of, ii. 314–335

_Ushakoff_, Russian ironclad, total loss of, at Tsushima, i. 240

Ussuri districts, Russian annexation of, i. 35, 69, 200

Vannovski, General, War Minister: the improvement of the army, i. 113; succeeded by General Kuropatkin, i. 115; on the allotment of funds, i. 117

Velichko, Major-General, armament for Port Arthur, i. 128

Viceroyalty, establishment of the, i. 187

Vladivostok: Trans-Baikal Railway, i. 69; fortification of, i. 126, 148, 151, 200; Russian fleet at, i. 237; daring sally from, i. 239; garrison at, ii. 206

Vogak, Major-General, council at Port Arthur, i. 180

War Department (see also Army), problems for the Russian, i. 1–39; expansion of the army, and growing complications of defence problems, i. 78–96; the chief duty of the twentieth century, i. 102–104; taken by surprise, i. 105; estimate procedure and inadequacy of funds allotted, i. 116–122, 138, 139; ready by September, 1905, i. 134; lines of communication 5,400 miles long, i. 135; dual capacity of Finance Minister, i. 139; Manchurian and Korean questions, i. 145–198; reasons for the Russian reverses, i. 229–309, ii. 1–97; measures for the improvement of the army, ii. 98–176; the causes of Russian failure summarized, ii. 177–204

Wei-hai-wei, Japanese occupation of, ii. 30

Witgeft, Admiral, his death while attacking the Japanese fleet, i. 238

Witte, Sergius de, Minister of Finance, and Dalny, i. 127, 172; his dual capacity, i. 139; his influence, i. 171; and the Russo-Chinese Bank, i. 172; and the evacuation of Manchuria, i. 173; and the Royal Timber Company, i. 173–184, ii. 306–313

Yakub Beg, death of, i. 92

Yalu, battles on the, i. 125, 257, ii. 38; the timber concession, i. 169–184, ii. 306–313; naval engagement at the mouth of the, i. 202

_Yellow Peril_, the, a reality, ii. 200

Yen-tai mines, battle at the, ii. 234–236

Zarubaeff, General, i. 303; withdraws his troops towards Hai-cheng, ii. 225; the retreat from Mukden, ii. 232, 285, 286, 333

Zasulitch, General, his defeat, ii. 38, 211, 212, 225

Zikoff, ii. 212

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