The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-06-03
kouRoPArklN IN REAL WAR.
Russian General Facing Foemen
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Worthy Of His sreei,
Il ought TO be a source OF consider
able qualification 10 Gen. Kouropathin
10 have the opportunity OF encounter
ing n completely equipped and highly
intelligent onomy. warrior Of his
yoraoity could hardly have died ro
pieto n tho soanty fare OF his previous
campaigns had not been supplemented
by this brawny piece de Resistance,
For thlr;y-elght years Kouropatkin
fought Bolsharinns, Algorians. Khokan'
dams, Turks. Khivana Samaritan.
dlans. Khlrgbzes. rashkendians and
varlcgated mid.Aslatics. His foomen
wore worthy OF the arsenal Of stars,
Hworda ana crosees winch they WON
snr him from me czar They were
wolves. But that Is Just what they
we're. Even the Turks, because OF the
innrmlty OF their government, rosem
blod pack OF wise animals rather
than tho army Of an organized nation.
When Kouropatkln went to ST. Peters
burg In 1898 az minister OF war he
must have felt that he had been not
30 much conqueror OF men as q hun
Ter OF inferior breeds.
To-day. az he watches Kurok come
toward him over the Manchurlan hills
with oommlssariat department and
a chess game plan Of campaign, his
heart should bound with the prospect
OF mnklne hi4 FIRST offering In the
Temple OF the Real Thing.
How many strange scenes, drawn
from strange and widely separated
parts Of the hRbitahlc world. must
float now through Kouropatkin'H
mind
lie must SEQ himself as he was In
1874. young enough TO have the wan
dorlng feeling IN the fect." and there
fore wandering 10 Algeria In the
French army under Loyerdo. How far
away. how unreal those Algerlana
must seem with whom he fought on
the desert sands and over whom he
rode into the Legion OF Honorl
Aud thon the TURKS especially tho
dead Turk under whose body he lay,
wounded and unconscious, all one
cold night They must come back "a
him together with his chief Skohe'
len. standing shoulder to shoulder
with him In hand to hand encounters
with bashihazouks and dripping
equally with blood while Archibald
Forbes asked them questions and tel
egraphed TO his newspapers his IA
nous description of their gore en-
boased uniforms.
Turks and Algorians, however
must be but feeble Images TO Kouro
patkin compared with those mild
Aslauo Turcomans-- nokharians, Kho
kandians and the rest--whom IL was
his life mission TO subduo, The Rus
SLAMS will not be able TO conquer th,
Turcomans" said Lord Salisbury
"The Turcoman barrier win last fo
our lifetime at least" IL was Skobe
len and then KouropatIln who rid
died this prophecy The Turcomani
yielded 10 marches as magnificent al
that OF Lord Roberts ON KandahaI
and to massncrcs az nromisouous al
those Of Caesar In GauL Does KQuru
patlSln remember Cock Tepe now an,
the 10000 men, women and children
delivered to the flesh and blood lus
OF the Russian soldiory In one o
those thorough dissuaslye lesson
which, IN the bool, of Russian color
ial assimilation procede the a.
maslon of Administrative
Certainly there could .a.
found for auy 'aual mar ~
previous neH 70 wu ~ ~
q more WV ,lqar ia lu
which DH .1tl russian 81,
lJrj -'=a, away frol
H. y. that is perhaps hI
last suinu against the enemies OF hI
sovereign and Is fighting instead Z
hunting