RUSSIA'S WAR MINISTER.
General* Sukhomlinoff, Minister of War for Russia, unlike most of his predecessors, is a- Slav and. a Russian. Nationalist, and was formerly military governor of Kieff. His work, until summoned to assumo tho task of reorganising tho military forces of Russia as Minister of War, was entirely with the strategic problems of Russia's western frontiers. lie took part neither in tho Chinese nor Japanese wars, not in any of tho Asiatic wars. For somo time ho served under tho celebrated General Dragomiroff. whose favourite lieutenant he was. and whom he succeeded in tho command of the south-western frontier. By profession ho is a. cavalryman, and is generally scgardod as thr> most repi BirkifljiliN QPiTiftAßigJlCftdtgi. £5&:;32.U3&0£1.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 16
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