Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — Czar to Reorganize Army. [ARTICLE]

Czar to Reorganize Army.

The Czar, spurred by repeated defeats at the hands of the Japanese arms on land and sea, has decided to reorganize the Russian army. Gen. Grippenberg has been assigned to command the second division of the Manchurian army, nnd is placed on equal footing with Gen. Kuropatkin. Seven hundred thousand men may soom be ready to take the aggressive againisf the Japanese. It is believed that Grand Duke Nicholas will be made coinmander-in-cliief of the Russian armies in the far East.