The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-03

cat. He is one of the best riders in
the Russian army, and astonished the
members of that hard-riding body, the
Quorne Hunt, by his splendid horse
manship, when he hunted with them
during a visit to England, three years
ago. He shares with Prince Louis
Napoleon the reputation of being the
chief cavalry expert in the Cars serv-
ice.
Prince Louis Napoleon.
The Prince, who now commands a
cavalry division in Manchuria, is a
general in the Russian army, and is
held in high esteem by the Car. AL
though a pretender to the French
throne, he does not actively push his
claim, and he never NEEDLES with poll
tics. When President Felix Faure
visited the Car, the Prince rode past
him at a review and saluted him, al
though, of course, he regarded him as
an usurper of his own place. Presi-
dent Faure returned the salute, and
they afterwards became good friends,
the Car introducing them to each
other.
The Grand Duke Boris is well
known in this country on account of
his recent visit, which supplied so
much copy" to the yellow journals"
He is a lieutenant of Hussars and has
never displayed any particular mill
tary ability. The gossips of St.
Petersburg are always talking about
his scrapes and his love affairs, but he
is popular with the soldiers and has a
regulations for daredevil courage.
HE is a second Skobeleff without
Skobeleff's genius said a Russian
officer who served with Skobeleff and
knows Boris we'll. He is to serve on
the staff of the Grand Duke Nicholas.
How GrOdekOH Won Fame.
Several of the Russian commanders
in the Far East won distinction during
the Boxer instruction. Gen. Grode-
koff, the Governor General of the Us
surf province, directed the operations
in that campaign, in connection with
Adm. raj Alexieff. He is a short, we'll
built, energetic man, white-haired,
but full of vigor. His career has been
a remarkable one. He fought through
five wars in the Caucasus and Central
Asia, and rode to Cabul disguised as a
Persian to see the Ameer of Afghanis-
tan and influence him against Eng
land.
He is credited with having caused
the war which broke out soon after
wards between England and Afghan
istan, and cost British India 100000
sterling. He has been one of the
strongest advocates of a Russian in
vasion of India, and elaborated with
Gen. Kouropatkin in drawing up a
secret plan for that invasion which is
filed in the War Office at st. Peters,
burg.
Hero of the COssRcks.
Grodekoff is the particular hero of
the Cossacks, whom he led to victory
over and over again in Central Asia.
He is reputed to be one of the few
highly placed Russian officials who
will not accept brides or allow any
graft to go on under his admins
tration, if he can prevent it.
Grodekoff's chief lieutenant is the
military governor of Vladivostok,
Gen. Chicagoff, a Cossack officer who
commanded division against the Box
ers during the subjugation of Man
churia, and won notable victories at
Exile and Aje-Khe. OF the first di-
visions which took part in that cam
paign, his was the only one which did
not commit excuses. 1t consisted al
most entirely of Cossack troops, but
he kept them we'll in hand.
Gen. Rennenkampf's Siberian regi-
ments were the worst offenders. Rem
nenkampf gave the town of Aigun,
on the Amur, to fire and sword, his
men driving all the Chinese, men,
women and children, into the flames
at the point of the bayonet Similar
, atrocities were perpetrated by his di-
vision at Merger and Tsitsikar. Gen.
Rennenkampf has gone to Manchuria
to command an army corps. His de-
parture led to an enthusiastic demon
stration. by the officers of his own