A Merciless General

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1158, 30 November 1904, Page 3

A Merciless General

Genkhal Linevituh, who is reported to have assumed command of the Kussitin army in Manchuria, is an old uiiui, hard, migcruplous and ineniless. His namo will bo ever assooiated with the Russian massacres of Chinese in 1900. Ho was at Pekin, in command of the Eus3ians oftQr tho Embftaaiea had beon relieved, There wus to bo, a parade, and it was attanged that troops should talco precedonoo in order o( strength, Tho Japanese weroin fat larger force than any otlior nationality. When the commanders wore mot , to mako arrangements, thoy conferred through an interpreter, "llow many troops Imeyrm?" asked Lincvii"h, turnin" lo •' e •')>■ JapiinesM K oneial •' 6500" said :iu .f. .jsmdso. ''Then I Imve 8600," siid lii.ii:vitch, "That's a—lie" remarked General Ohulloy, comm»ndor of tho Americans, in an undertone. General Linevitch nskod tho inrerprotor what tho American had said, and was informod that ho had only express! surpriso that the ltußsians wero in such strength. On leaving tho meeting, General Linevitch saluted a young aido-de-camp wi.h tho romark, in » porfect English: '■ Fino morning, isn't it." His he had secured tho placo of honour for the Russians,