Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — KUROPATKIN BACK TO THE FIRING LINE [ARTICLE]

KUROPATKIN BACK TO THE FIRING LINE

Goes as Subordinate Where He Was Late in Command. GREAT FAREWELL AT HARBIN Sure of a Greater Welcome by His Comrades at the Front. He and Lineviteh Just Exchange Places, He Having Taken the Initiative—Lid On North of Tie Pass. St. Petersburg, March 23. —A dispatch from General Lineviteh, dated March 21, says: “Yesterday Japanese cavalry detachments appeared in front of our advance posts. Behind the cavalry were infantry, who halted at the village of Macliantzy.”

Vlborg, European Russia, March 21. —Governor Miasorodoff was shot and seriously wounded by a boy. The assassin, who is about 15 years old, is Mattl Hjaltnar Reinlkke, and obtained an entrance to tbegovernor’s office and fired three times at him, one bullet inflicting a serious wound and the others slightly wounding the governor’s legs. The governor’s clerks and secretary were unable to stop the would-be assassin, who reached the street, where, however, he was arrested without a struggle. The governor’s condition is critical. Warsaw, March 22.—A bomb was thrown from a house window in Volsk street at 9 o’clock last evening into the midst of a passing patrol composed of police and Infantry. Six soldiers and two policemen were dangerously wounded. The assailant escaped. Harbin. March 22.—At the departure southward of General Kuropatkin thousands of civilians and soldiers gathered at the station and gave him a great ovation. Above thundering hurrahs were heard cries of "God send you happiness.” “Good-bye, brother," “Good-bye. father.” As the train started soldiers rushed forward in a surging crowd and grasped the hand rail of the general’s car, throwing their fur caps in the air and running some distance with the car. The scene made a deep impression on General Kuropatkin, down whose face tears streamed. Removing his cap, he saluted aguin and again, and stood bareheaded on the platform of the ear as long as the train was in sight. He Volunteered to Remain. St. Petersburg, March 22. The Russian army in Manchuria is still to have the services of General Kuropatkin, who is considered by many, in spite of his series of reverses, the best general and foremost strategist of the Russian army. Sinking all feeling of personal bitterness because of his supersession. and nil the old-time enmity between himself and General Lineviteh in a patriotic desire to be of service to the fatherland, the former com inander-in-clilef volunteered to remain in any capacity with the army which he had so long commanded. The tender has been accepted by Emperor Nicholas and gratefully received by the new leader of the grand army.

RUSSIAN HOPES AKK HKVIVKO Peril n|>« (he Military Will Pull Together Now—Agrarian Trouble* Increase, The send-off ut Harbin was a mere foretaste of what awaits General Hu-t-opal kin at the front; and his self saeriflcingdeterinination and the equally patriotic course of General Linevlteh in accepting the services tendered are bound to do wonders for the re inspiration of the emperor’s legions and give promise of union and harmony at the council table which that army has hitherto lacked. The retreat is apparently progressing uneventfully. Little weight is placed here on the deduction drawn at certain European capitals from the dispatch announcing that cannonading had been heard south of Tie pass that General Itennenkampff’s corps, endeavoring to rejoin the main army, had been intercepted south of Tie pass. The dispatch in question undoubtedly was erroneous. Llnevltch’s army effected a concentration at Tie pass with scarcely a straggler missing, so official dispatches state, and the absence of so well known a fighter as Rennenknmpff would surely have been noted. Preparations are now making for the mobilization of a number of detachments, not. however, on a general scale, the preliminary orders affecting but twen-ty-two districts In the governments of Odessa. Warsaw and Moscow. The grenadiers have not received orders to proceed to Manchuria. Recurrences and extensions of agrarian troubles are noted, and near Libau workmen and peasants are making common cause. The Caucasus is already the scene of armed reslstence to the forces of civil authority, and in the region around Kieff. where the peasants are increasingly bold, there have been many cases of alolence.