Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-17
Former Commander of the Sec
ond Manchurian Army Sc
verely Scores kuropatkin
ARRIVAL At ST. PETERSBURG
Military Circles at the Russian Capt.
tai Considerably Stirred Up by the
Coming of General Gripenberg-Lat- :
ter Gives Out an Interview Denounc-
ing kuropatkin. -,--a

ST. Petersburg Feb 17.-Arrival 1t
st. Petersburg today of General Grit
enberg, former commander of the See
ond Manchurian army. caused consid-
erable of Il sensation in military cir
ces The general frankly avows he
relnuuished command after the recent
attempt of the Russians to flank OYa-
ma because as he claims. kuropatEin
refused to send him help when victory
was in Gripenbergs hands instead of
ordering the latter to withdraw. Grip
enberg will personally report on the
situation to the emperor. 1t is too
early to say what will be the result.
altho it is evident Kuropatkin's enc
mics are pushing their campaign
against him. kuropatkin's friends
claim that he only intended to make
demonstration in force and that
Gripenberg pressed the attack too far
and became too much involved.
In AN interview Gripenberg said:
+Kuropatkin, Of course. authoriZ-
ed the advance. but he imposed the
condition that it should not go beyond
Heikoutai and Sandepas. My plan vas
to capture the former and then out
flank the latter. From the first the
army corps before Heikoutai detached
a brigade which occupied Heikoutal
January %. The Japs cut in from the
south and the brigade came under
cross fire, but held out until / got up
another. brigade t. covep Is rese~, t.
The Japs We're now concentrating on
their left. During the evening of the
25th, and my army were ordered un-
der no circumstances to fall back from
our positions. The next morning my
whole front was engaged. Altogether
we had sixty-two battalions. The enc
my had twice as many.
"The battle of the Goth was contin-
ued until evening. We did not surren-
der an inch of ground. My left flank,
WHlCH WAS CLEARING lllG loelS w ActtlASAS0
pas, being weak 1 asked the comElan-
der-in-chief, who had sixty battalions
available for reinforcements. He de-
clined to send any, apparently taking
the Japs demonstration at the center
as being a general advance. Neverthe-
less 1 decided to storm Heikoutai the
next day. All the surrounding viii
fages were already in our hands.
early on the 9th the tiercest fight
ing occurred. We again held our own.
The road to Sandepas, the Japs point
of concentration was quite clear of the
enemy. 1 therefore, again, appealed to
the commanders in chief for reinforce
ments. If he had listened to my en-
treaties we would have riven an iron
ring of a hundred thousand of the
enemy. The Japanese being menaced
by a strong force of Russian cavalry
from the south and southwest evil
IDENTIFY realized the danger of tackling
us. In desperation OH lne @oei 'iie'
four times desperately assaulted our
outer positionsc and were beaten off
each time in such brilliant fashion that
it does my heart good to remember the
gallantry of my brave comrades. L
might easily have followed up those
repulses by headlong offensive, but
/ was tied down by the commander-in-
chiefs restrictions and his refusal to
send me reinforcements We retreat
ed during the night of the 18th with
tears in our eyes and bitterness in our
hearts. 1t was then ] decided my pres
ence at the theater of war was no long
er possible The next day I handed in
my report to the communicative chief
demanding my relief