GENERAL KUROPATKIN

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 7

GENERAL KUROPATKIN

APPOINTMENT IN' RUSSIAN ARMY. (TIMJS IND-BTDNST SUN SBRTICW.) (Received October 5, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 4th October. The Tsar has agreed to General Kuropatkin's appointment to the Army, after repeated applications for the privilege to shed his blood for his country. [General Alexei Nikolaievich Kuropatkin (born 1848) entered the army in 1864. He earned a great reputation as Chief of Staff in the war against Turkey in 1877-78, and subsequently wrote a detailed and' critical history, which is still the classical work on the operation in that war. In 1882 he was appointed General, being then only 34, and was regarded as the natural successor of the Commander-in-Chief. He acquired in time the reputation of being one of the foremost soldiers in Europe, and in 1904-5 had charge of the Russian armies in the war with Japan. The war was marked by a series of defeats. His apologists attribute this astonishing result to his having ben subjected to the snperior command of the Viceroy, Admiral Alexeieff ; but in his own history of the war he admitted his mistakes, and paid a high tribute to his armies. After the battle of Mukden he resigned the chief command to General Linievich, and himself took the command of Linievich's army. Critics have described him as a man of great intelligence, but insufficient determination to carry out his plans with the fixity of purpose which makes success.]