The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-26
New Army Created and Fa
nous Commander Chosen.
PORT ARTHUR FORTS TAKEl
LINE OF FoRTIFICATIoNs sue
CUMB TO ATTACK.


y there win be an army aggregating
= 100000 TO 100000 men ready % take
! y the aggressive against the Japan =
y csc. 1t is believed that Grand =
y Duke Nicholas Michaelovitch viii =
i y be made commander In chief Of the =
I y Russian armies i'm the far east
y with a soldier of more varied eN-
y perience as his chief of staff.
= AT Mukden h is believed that =
y the Japanese viii not make q =
q frontal attack upon that city but y
. Will seek 10 engage the Russians
/ y north or northwest OF there, a pur- y
y pose dictated by strategic reasons Y
y as well as by desire not 20 Of =
/ y fend the Chinese by making the =
3 sacred tombs of the emperors the >
y scene of bI0odshed. Severe fight =
y ing at Port Arthur is reported TO y
i y have taken place Sept. 1921 and =
y several important stFOnghoids are =
| y said to have been captured by the
/ y Japanese. Heavy firing was heard =
y also on Sept. a. but details Of the p
y fighting at this time are lacking.
%\~A%A@N% = y
oT. PETERSBURG, Sept. %, 2.sO a.
y m.-The division and reorganiza-
ton Of the Manchurian army, re-
garding which there have. been rumors
ever since the battle of Lao Yang, was
officially announced today in an inn
/ perial rescript appointing Major Gen
eral Grippenberg, commander of the
! Third army corps I'm the province or
/ Wilma. as commander Of the Second
} army corps now being modified for
immediate dispatch to- the far east
! leaving General KUrOpatkin in COM
mand of the First army The emperor
/ is personally convinced that the pollt-
I zeal as well as the military prestige Of
/ the empire is at stake and that every
other consideration must give way be-
fore the exigencies of war. The re-
/ sources of the empire in men and
money must be drained if necessary in
! order 10 turn the scale and vindicate
( the power of Russia. The reOrganiZa-
/ ton amounts TO formal notice 20 the
world that the emperor frankly ex-
I plains in his rescTipt that he intends
| to vastly increase the number Of tr0Ors
at the theatre of war i'm order 70 force
( the struggle TO a successful issue ian
the shortest possible time. II is in
| tended 10 silence definitely all talk OF
/ foreign intervention by the announce
ment that Russia means TO fight out
I the issue with Japan on the field of
/ battle Probably 100000 additional men
viii be placed in the field Five corps
the Third. Fourth. Fifth. Eighth and
/ Sixteenth-are already destined for the
/ front, and the talk is that five more
/ corps viii be sent forward. Eventually
the creation of this Second army in
wolves the. selection of a commander-in-
chief. Not only Is there no ntimation
I in the resCript that General KurOpaU-
( kin will have command Of both armies.
/ but he is distinctly placed upon the
same footing as General Grippenberg-
I In the best informed circles there is
/ little idea that Viceroy AleXieff. the
J present nominal COMMUNICATIVE chief,
/ viii exercise the actual functions of
/ commander of the 10000 or 100000 men
that Russia has resolved TO pUt in the
field
Grand Duke For Commander.
tt is the best opinion that Grand
/ Duke Nicholas BIichael0vitch, inspee-
tor general of cavalry. viii attain the
high command. occupying i'm the war
with Japan the position held by his
/ father in the war with Turkey There
are various reports regarding Niceroy
/ Alexieh-s ultimate destiny 1t is de-
ciared in some quarters that he wiz be
recalled and Grand Duke Nicholas be-
come VicerOy as well as COMMANDMENT
chief. IL Is also said upOn apparent
equal authority that AlexieT viii return
! as chancellor of the empire, succeeding
Count LamsdOrff. None of these re-
ports is definitely confirmed.
Grand Duke Nicholas is still a. youuS
man. not yet A. with much of his. IA
TIERS dash, energy and resolution.
There IS reason TO believe that even
with the memories Of the horrors OF
the Shipka winter campaign against
the Turks, Of which ne was the wit
less as a young captain of cavalry. he
would favor winter campaign agaSnst
the japanese.
The dispatch of the grand duke IS
commander of both armies would sc-
cord with the traditions of the Bo-
manom dynasty, a member OF which
I imperial family has always been in
command in all of Russia's great wars
II IS agreed by the ablest military men
here that should Nicholas be appoint-
Y ed despite the fact that his experience
has been as a cavalry commander. the
selection of his chief Of STAFF VIII be-
come matter of supreme Importance
A counselor with wide actual expert
ence in general command VIII become
an imperative necessity. Generals
/ Dragomiroff. Vorentzoff and Sougaren-
sky, veterans and heroes of the Turk
ish war. are mentioned for the post
Grippenberg' Army Record.
4 General GrippeHberg- commander Of
the Second army. was born Jan. J, 1858
He is ten years older than General Ku-
ropatkin. but ranks three numbers low
er i'm the list of generals. General Grip
penberg is a Lutheran i'm religion. He
is married and has three children. One
son. captain of artillery. was wound
ed in the battle of Lao Yang. Cen
leral Grippenberg was educated at home
and passed through no military school,.
He won his first commission while
fighting in defense OF SevastopOl and
then came into prominence in the cam
paigns in Turkestan in 1868 and 1868,
where he won the St Georges cross
and was promoted 10 a captaincy. H.
WAS severely wounded in this cam
paign. He went into the Turkish war
as a colonel and as a reward for his
services was appointed aide de camp
10 the emperor he again won the St
Georges cross and was promoted to
the rank of major general. He became
La lieutenant general in 1890. a general
lof infantry in 1901. ana recently was
lappOinted general aide &c camp TO the
emperor.
While General Grippenberg's distin-