The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-22
GEN. KUROPATKIN TO
REMAIN AT The FRONT
APPOINTED COMMANDER OF
THE FIRST ARMY.

vitch,s Exactly Reversed-RHssiHn
Capital Does Not Believe That Rem
nenkampfr Has Been Cut on.
St. Petersburg, March 22.-1, a. m'-
General Kuropatkin has been appoint
ed commander of the first Manchurian
army. The appointment is gazetted in
the Official Messenger to-day.
General Kuropatkin is still consider
ed by many, in spite of his series Oh
reyerses, the best general and Iorenose
strategist of the Russian army. SINK
ing all feeling of personal bitterness pc
cause of his suppression, and all the
old time enmity between himself and
General Linevitch in a patriotic desire
to be of service to the fatherland' the
former commander-in-chief volunteer
ed to remain in any capacity with the
army which he had so long commanded.
The tender has been accepted by En-
peror Nicholas and gratefully received
by the new leader Of the grand army.
The change exactly reverses the old
order of affairs, when Kuropatkln was
the supreme leader and Linevitch dl-
rected the first army.
Authoritative news of this remarka-
BILE step was known in Manchuria much
carrier than in st. Petersburg. General
Kuropatkin having paused on his home
ward journey at Hardin, started south
ward the afternoon of March 20 amidst
a most remarkable farewell from resi-
dents of Harbin, and soldiers who We're
on the way to fill out the ranks of the
depleted army The sendoff was a mere
foretaste of what awaits General Kuro-
patkin at the front; and his self-sacri-
ficing determination and the equally
patriotic course of General Linevitch in
accepting the services rendered are
bound to do wonders for the re-inspira-
tion of the emperor's legions and give
promise of union and harmony at the
council table, which that army has
hitherto lacked. Il s
The retreat is apparently progressing
uneventfully. No dispatches of moment
were received yesterday.
Little weight is placed here on the
deduction drawn at certain European
capitals from the dispatch announcing
that cannonading had been heard south
of Tie pass, that General Rennen-
kampff's corps, endeavoring to join the
main army, had been intercepted south
of Tie pass. AS stated yesterday morn
ing the dispatch in question undoubted-
Iy was erroneous, and it may be point
ed out that several correspondents at
the front had mentioned the orderly
retreat of General Linevitch's army
and asserted that it effected concen-
tration at Tie pass with scarcely a
straggler missing, but made no mem
tion of the absence of SO well known
a fighter as Rennenkampff. In addition
the Associated Press correspondent, M.
Tofuzakoff, who was with Rennen-
kamff's command during the battle,
has arrived at general headquarters
slightly wounded. T.
Preparations are now making for the
mobilizing Of number of detachments,
not, however, on a general scale, the
preliminary orders affecting twenty
two districts in the governments of
Odessa, Warsaw and Moscow. The
Grenadiers have not received orders to
proceed to Manchuria, but many officers
of that organization, drafted to COM
mand units now bound for the front,
left Moscow yesterday. A.