New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06
GENERAL KURoPATKINs RECORD.

St Petersburg correspondence Of The London
Times
General Kuropatkin, hitherto Goyernor-Gen,,
eral Of Trans-Caspia and Communicating el
at the gates Of Herat, has been appointed MN
lister Of War in place of General Nahholah!'
General Dragomirof too. in addition to ms du,
ties as military commander OF kieff. IS app'htea
Ciovernor-General OF the same province IN
Guiding the districts Of Podolia and Nolhynld,
in SUI ,cesson TO Count AleXeI lgnatleH pIDIhei
of the more celebrated Count Nlcholas lhey
are both extremely able and talented oihcers
and their selection by the car VIII anorf
pleasure to patriotic hearts throughout the Rus
sian Fatherland.' -.,, 20
only forty-nine years OF age. He began actIVt
military service in Central Asia In the Isl
Turkestan Rifle Battalion, and received ms
baptism Of fire at the stornhs pi ,iin
in lsNJ He also took part IN the tHPeuI'Ion
AGAINST KhOlnd. the present RUSSIAN fclEhdIid
under General Skobeeff in 1919. and agalns, me
Turcomans at the capture OF 'IeoN-teie IA ,i,h
His name became nseparably connected W'IH
that Of The heroic white General. whose ChIei Oh
Staff ne was both in the latter part 81 , .,ie
Khokand campaign and at the haru-lous -t U ea
lies before Plevna and Loftcha during tne va
v,i,b Turkey lS11-'tS. The TWO characteis
balanced each other admirably Inc PERCY
cool and stocal nature OF huroPdehi Ti,hiv
great contrast 10 the sensitive anu HISm,'
strung nervous temperament OF SkobeIel hu I
opatkin has been twice wounded One 2SNvlVaS
in the left shoulder while crossing 'he i ,t,t
I'm ISIS and again in the arm ny hdta ~, 800 800,
,or,ads while crossing the Tanshan Mountains
10 Kashcar in 1876 on diplomatic Iil.aS.oi - "a
tho once famous Yakub Beg. lie also SuS'd''eu
= .,,..ra confusion in the head al 1ltEhd VI"
Sentamber l. 1917, by the explosion ol an am.
,nirition caisson while he was rallylns MS ilSh
in one Of the redOubts just taken nun nc
Turks His strong constitution does hoI apPIIIt.
- ha,,a entered mich from these mlShaps ne
- therefore no carpet knight. ana mas propaply
bad harder training and a greater aNeid5e va
PRACTICAL experience than many 81 nj 7tIr tbo
cassors in the important Once 81 Con,lo ,,,,
,jGantic organization Of the Russian Army
bicb nov, numbers nearly nine huhureu tH"u
sand men and costs the State TWO hundred anu
eighty million Iubes year -. o,,
Iie served for several years on the srahu
- - s cbief ~ the Aslatic section and coadyu-
49,, - General Obutchef in planning the ue
fence If the Empire As 10 his explorations ms
forcod marches across hundreds u Inles 81 Il0
Hasort wastes Of Central Asia and his eNpe-
fences with the French troops in Aslefs- are
o., not written in his many publlsI'u "ul No
when he took over the administrator 81 yh0
pavy Trans-Caspian territory from P'Heid- NJ
,,aroff light wears ago. the popular Inauguration
.i,,,1 hin, as the man destined to command
aaav rossible expedition against INDIA, but lheie
- ma reason 10 believe that he harpOis any per
sonal feeling Of AnglophObia, as DO 50 many ~
~ crescent generation II Russian military, anu
esrarially naval officers Much Improvement mas
~ ACCOMPLISHED in Trans-Caspia during
MS tenure Of Office there. one 81 ms sa7t CP Pt
mendahle actions was 70 turn out All the t"l'S',
r,fluray engineers Persians. ArineIllns, anu
49, ,northodox Russian subjects engaged on
tho line and introduce real Russians IN thelr
pIaces OF the latter there are now over slN
ihnusand on the railway 10 SaInar anu Issues
,r,ons 4 dozen Russian churches ana some
49,. pussfan schools have been established, 4
branch railway has been laid down % IN.
Kushk and a good road made through me h"l,et
Dag: the hybrid system oi justice aIn"IS 1ne
rati,as has been reorganZed and the cuItlVa-
ton ~ cotton by the Turcomans has been raised
~ sucb A pitch that the annual production now
rea hes aearly twelve tn )us1nd tons.