Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — NEW RUSS MINISTER [ARTICLE]

NEW RUSS MINISTER

GEN. BELIAEFF NAMED AS CZAR S WAR HEAD. 1 ' Former Chief of General Staff Is the Fourth Man to Hold Post Since War Started. London, Jan. 19—Gen. M. A. Behaeff has been appointed minister of War in place of General Chouiaieff, who has bqen made a member of the council of Tlie empire,' according to a Petrograd dispatrfi.’to Reuters.’ General Beliaeff was formerly assistant minister of war tftjd chief of the general staff. General Beliaeff is fifty-four years old. He was jeducateil in the classical schools of Petrograd and received his inilitary instruction in the artillery school and in the academy of the general staff, from which, he was graduated with high honors. In 1884 he joined the Twenty-ninth artillery brigade, but soon lie was transferred to a staff post. During the RussoJapanese war General Beliaeff was chief of staff of the First Manchurian army and acting chief of staff to the commander in-chief. For his services in the war he received a number of special distinctions in addition to the regular military decorations. In 1906 General Beliaeff was appointed head of a division of the general staff, and in 1906 was promoted to aiajor generftl.m*The following, yeqj he was made quartermaster general. General Beliaeff is the fourth minister of war Russia has had since the outbreak of the war. When hostilities began General Soukhomlinoff held the post. He resigned in June, 1915, under charges of misappropriation of war funds and was succeeded by General Polivanoff, who in turn gave way to general Chouvaieff when Premier Sturmer took office.