The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-29

the l6th corps, after his promotion to be a full general in 1899. was made q member of the council of war. He is 70 years of age. but active and ener- getic. It is noteworthy that he does not belong to the general stan as also do not Generals Lienevitch, Kuropat- kin and Kaulbers. General Bilderling probably will reassume command of his corps though he has been blamed to some extent at Mukden by defective dispo- sitions of the third army during the retreat from the Shakhe River and per- hitting the Japanese to break through Flu Pass just at the, moment when Ku- ropatkin. personally leading the strat- egic reserves of sixty-five battalfons. was raliying up Nogis right and threatening to sever the third Japan the last hope of winning the battle and necessitated the quick retreat in which the second and third armies suffered SO heavily.
 The Associated Press correspondent with the third army partly excused General Bildering on account of the blinding storm which came up during the retreat and the failure of subor- dinates to occupy positions to which they had been assigned, leaving the crossing of Flu Pass guarded by only three companies.
 The Associated Press learned from the general stan that General Kuro- patkin after the battle severely cen- sured ten generals for failure to exe- cute orders. It now develops that Bil- jerling was included in the number.
 N. Routkowsky's Protest.
 London, March 28-M. Routkowsky, the Russian financial agent in London, has sent long letter to the London newspapers protesting vigorously against what he calls the deliberate campaign carried on the past three days not only by the British press but also through organs connected with the British press in America ana France to damage Russian credit by predicting insolvency and revolution. The letter says:
 Millions of families in Europe have invested the savings of a lifetime in Russian securities and would be ruined by the sale of the bonds in a panic. It Is criminal to attempt to ruin such peo- pie by misstatements and misrepre- sentations. and in an individual case any court of law would award dam ages to the sufferers"
 M. Routkowsky proceeds to deny that Russian budgets are in q chronic
 
 he says the surplus of ordinary in- come over expenditure the past ten years aggregated se00.000.000, which has been spent. not unproductively, but mostly for the purchase and con- struction of new railways and the con- version of high interest debts.
 Further" M. Routkowsky says. "ft is not true that the revenues of the railroads do not cover the working ex- penses. On the contrary the revenues not only cover expenses but also meet all fixed charges and with the deveI- opment of new country will be still more productive"
 M. Routkowsky then gives details of the State debt, contending that the Brithish national debt require much larger annual expenditure for interest and sinking fund in proportion to the annual national income than does tils ia nothing to alarm Rsissian investorl ta vie ' uf The cozzntfSb pfmnti tiH4IIy u,s. limited resources
 Tn conclusion M. Routkowsky de. clares his conviction that public opin. ion does not approve of the campaign which he asserts has been carried on from political motives.
 Surrender to McCaila. Washington. March 2s.--The State 4cp4T tLI0hb tAtt5 iObAuSA su6 ftubHlAI Government that two of the three of dcers of the Lena who broke their parole at San Francisco about two months ago and returned to Russia have reappeared at San Francisco and surrendered to Rear Admiral McCaIla commandant of the navy yard at Mare Island. It is understood they were ordered back by the Russian Govern. | ment as soon as 1t was made aware oi | their conduct, which it could excuse only on the ground of youth and mis. understanding of the terms of parole The officers are Midshipman Michaelof and Assistant Engineer Lapacin. Police After Socialists. | Warsaw, March 2S.--( t)-ThS police are prosecuting 8 strict searct of factories and workshops here fol Socialist workmen with the purpose oi discovering the conspirators concerned with recent bomb throwing. A numbei of students suspected of complicity 1T last Sundays affairs were arrested to. day. Baron von Holken. the Chief oi Police, who was wounded by the explo. sion of a bomb on Sunday, is improv. ing. He received 120 separate wounds cuts and scratches.
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