A DARE-DEVIL YOUNG RUSSIAN GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 15

A DARE-DEVIL YOUNG RUSSIAN GENERAL.

well-shaped no^ancSco^Z' aclearb J ue *?*> a large, prominent, a superior CrfTlttSn? l^ 1 Tt TP" 3 ? 6*6 * to retreat before the Khokandians had encamp the S^und, perceived that Russians, in an open E? P l v I m a mile and a half of the mancßuvringofcavK f V % T? facilit r for «» fifty Cossacks, diviW'them h,t \t *?? k his one and mmmmm tmmmm men, had disappeared wSJnn Sf « S" 3^ Slx . or Seven thousand

what was his astonishment on calling the roll to discover that he had not lost a man, either killed or wounded. Mr. MacGahan, who first met him on the banks of the Oxus, relates this exploit to show how much method there is in the dare-devil's madness.— Exchange.