THE NUMBER OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Reports regarding the number of killed and wounded vary widely. It goes without saying that no precise tally is possible, and estimating by eye is exceedingly difficult. The government’s announcement of 96 killed and 330 wounded is clearly false—and no one believes it. According to the latest newspaper reports, on January 13th journalists submitted to the Minister of the Interior a list of 4,600 killed and wounded, a list compiled by reporters. Of course, even this figure cannot be considered complete, since, even during daylight hours—let alone at night—it would have been impossible to count all those killed and wounded in every skirmish.
The victory of autocracy over the unarmed people came at a cost that was not

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less than that of the great battles in Manchuria. Not without reason—according to reports from foreign correspondents—did the workers of Petrograd shout at the officers that they were fighting the Russian people more effectively than they were fighting the Japanese.