Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — SPARTAN RUSSIAN COLONEL [ARTICLE]

SPARTAN RUSSIAN COLONEL

Kissed His Dead Son and Continued to Give Orders to His Troops. Petrograd.—The Russian journal Svlet tells the following story of the Spartan conduct of Colonel Loupoukhlne. He was listening, after the first great battle of Galicia, to the reading of ihe report of his regiment’s casualties. . “ ‘We have lost 200 killed and wounded,’ he was told. “ ‘How many soldiers killed?’ demanded CMonel Loupoukhlne. “ ‘So many.’ “ ‘How many officers killed?’ " ‘Only one.’ “ 'What Is the name of this officer?* “ ‘Lieutenant Loupoukhlne.’ “Not a muscle of Colonel Loupoukhine’s face moved. “‘Where was the officer killed?’ he asked. “The place was Indicated. He went to the body of his dead son, dismounted from his horse, kissed the forehead and lips of his child, made the sign of the cross, remounted, and continued giving orders.”