The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-16
Kuropatkin Resigns.

Kuropatkin Resigns.
1t is stated that General Kuropatkin
has rendered his resignation.
The military council has agreed that
it is advisable that the Grand Duke
Nicholas, Nicholaevitch should take
command and that General Soukomli-
noff should be appointed chief Of staff.
The Japanese are making a grand
movement toward Vladivostok.
Russian Prestige Gone.
According to Chinese reports. the gov
ernor Of Mukden gave banquet in
honor Of the Japanese generals after
their triumphal entry into Mukden, and
a russian Journalist wires that, with
anese, Russia's prestige WITH the chi.
nese has been destroyed. The cores
pondent says that this is already notice
able and that even a triumphant vic
tory would not restore Russia to the
place In the estimation Of the Chinese
that she held a year ago.
II IS rumored that an order for an
and that new army will be forwarded
to Manchurla as fast as possible by rail
way and the summer steamer service.
3SNo0A"AA 0SO4CS SAIulys
M. kirilof, one Of the Associated
Press Russian correspondents who was
wounded at Llao-yang, continuing today
causes Of the Russian defeats, has
drawn a. powerful picture of the COM
Plete, criminal lack of knowledge, on
| the part Of the Russians, Of the country
ana the enemy's movements, and of the
utterly lmprudent gossip and babbling
which acquaints the Japanese with
everX movement and plan before they
lie compared the Russian army to a.
powerful yokel moving forward blind
folded, wildly brandishing his arms and
shouting aloud what he will do to the
| enemy when he catches him. He cannot
see MS path nor his enemy. Here he
stumbles up hill. There he falls into
Vailey,.. The keen-eyed enemy easily
AVOIDS ago. ms swaylng arms and mighty
hsts and pours in a succession Of blows
winch send the Russian yokel Keeling
backward, to his bitter establishment.
Blame Not Kuropatkin.
! M. Kiriloff adds that the blame for
! the successive defeats is not Kuropat-
kin g. 1t is simply due to the fact that
the machine is out of order. A good
workman was given bad helpers and
fortune were insthe army itself. Be-
hold the result. TAe mishaps at first
were attributed to The defensive posi-
ton OF kuropatkin,. and it was said that
when the Russians assumed the initia-
tive. all would be well. This was not
realized because every movement was
preordained to failure by the premature
publication or dilatory execution Of the
plans. The merest~ STRIPPING sublieuten-
ant chartered recklessly and Informed
OF dispositions and movements which
should be known only to a few chiefs.
The dispositions and plans of the battle
of Shak-he river, fol example,, were
openly discussed several days in ad-
vance, in. the railroad restaurant at
naaa IN the hearing Of many Chi
| The general staff gives information
to whomsoever asks for it.
tary bureaucracy says M. Kiriloff,
lang rs. . the sooner it is corrected the bet!
Russians Eyes Closed"
While thus opening the Japanese
eyes, the Russians close theirs. Not
only company and battalion command
ers, but even colonies, and at times
commanders Of divisions enter into bat
tie ignorant of the maneuvers they are
!
eral Orlof on Sept. 2 was entrusted
with the movement on which the battle
of Liao-yang hinged, and he blindly
led $4,000 men into action, ignorant Of
why, wherefore or whittier. Naturally
there was a disaster instead of the de-
struction Of General Kuroki's forces
and victory.
The general staff is inattentive to
the al-important duty of mapping.
Even now the Russians have unsatisfac-
tory maps, and units in the billy coun-
anot Their. The Russian intelligence de-
partment is defective. It knows moth
ing of the Japanese numbers, positions
| or movements, not only in the unsettled
mountainous regions, but even on the
populated plains of Manchuria.
Instead OF easily securing the SYM
pathy of the Chinese, the Russians
alienated them and they now side with
the Japanese. The Russians drove away
eyes of the Japanese army and who de-
stroy bridges and communications as
well. Kuropatkin is also hampered
by fantastic reports from nervous gen.
erals, particularly those of Rennen-
kampf, who sends "poems instead of
reports.' The late Lieutenant General
Keller. was also at fault: .Kuropatkin
I was obliged to reprimand him sharply
a short while before his death. These
causes existed and still exist. The
army has been defeated in the past and
present and will be in the future unless
these faults are remedied.
! NO PEACE, DECLARES GEAR
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