RUSSIAN EXILES' CHIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 4

RUSSIAN EXILES' CHIEF

A NOTED SOLDIER KIDNAPPED GENERAL'S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, Feb. 24. It is understood that. General do Millar has been elected successor to the kidnapped General Koutepoft", as Conimander-in-Uhief of the secret Russian Monarchist ("White") military organisation in Europe. , He is known by British statesmen as General Miller, a. soldier of wisdom and experience. General Miller was, in 1918 and early in 1910 after the Bolshevik revolution, in London, conferring with the late Lord Milncr, Secretary of State for War, and General Maunerheim, the Finnish leader, on intervention in North Russia.

He went to Archangel as GovernorGeneral of the province, and as such was in 1919 in closo touch, with the late Lord Rawlinson, General .Sir Edmund Ironside, % and General Sir Charles Miivimrd.-'*■'<■ • ■•••

He had a distinguished military career and, unlike General Koutopolf, is well versed in the European political situation, with friends in all tho Allied countries. f

The Russians in Paris have during the past 10 years been engaged in varied pursuits helping to restore tho devastated battle areas, notably on the Sommc front.

General Miller, despite the power of the Soviet regime, has never given up hope that Russia will eventually restore a Czar to the throne.