The Red Cloud chief., 1905-03-24
RUSSIANS RETREAT
koUROPATkiN ACCEPTS COM.
MAND OF FIRST ARMY.

the Best General and Foremost
strstegist--chanees Positions With
General Lineviteh.
st. Petersburg, March 22.-The Rus
alan army in M%anchuria Is still to
Aave the services of General Kouro-
patkin, who Is considered by many, in
spite of his series of reverses, the
best general and foremost strategist
Of the Russian army. Sinking all feel
ing of personal bitterness because 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 form
ar commander-in-chief volunteered 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 K~ouropatkin
was the supreme leader and Linevitch
directed the First army.
Authoritative news of this. remark
able step was known in M%anchuria
much earlier than in st. Petersburg.
General ~Kouropatkin, having paused
on his homeward journey at Hardin,
started southwark the afternoon OF
March 20, amidst n most remarkable
farewell from residents of Hardin and
soldiers who are on the way to fill out
the ranks of the depleted army. The
send-off was a mere foretaste of what
awaits General Kouropatkin at the
front, and his self-sacrificing deter
nination and the equally patriotic
course of General Linevitch in accept
ing the services rendered are bound
10 do wonders for the Transportation OF
the emperor's legions and give prom.
Use of union and harmony at the coun.
ell table which that army has hitherto
lacked.
Retreat Progressing UneventfuIly.
The retreat is apparently progress
fhg u%neventfully. No dispatches of
moment were received.
Little weight Is placed here on the
deduction drawn at certain European
capitals from the dispatch announc-
ng that %cannonading had been heard
south of Tie pass, that General Rem
nenkampff's corps, ~endeavoring to re-
Join the main army, had been inter-
cepted south of Tie pass. The dis
patch in question undoubtedly was
erroneous and it may be pointed out
that several correspondents at the
'front.' have mentioned the orderly re-
treat of General Linevitch's army
aud asserted hat it effected a concen-
tration at Tie pass with scarcely a
%straggler missing, but made no men,
lion of the absence of so well known
4 fighter as Rennenkampff. In addi.
hon the Associated Press correspond
ent. NJ. Tolsukoff, who was with Rem
senkampff's command during the bat
die, has arrived at general headquar-
ters, slightly wounded.
Preparations are now making for
die mobilization of a number of new
Getachments, not, however, on a gen
eral scale, the preliminary orders af-
fecting but twenty-five districts in the
governments Of Odessa, Warsaw and
Moscow.
Renewal Of Agrarian Troubles.
occurrences and extensions of
sgrarian troubles are noted and near
Libau workmen and peasants are max
ing common cause. The Caucasus is
already the scene of armed resistance
10 the forces Of civil authority and in
the region around Kieff, where the
peasants are increasingly bold, there
have been many cases of violence.
The labor leaders in the great indus.
trial centers are plainly planning to
synchronize a general renewal Of the
strike with the climax of the peasant
disorders and with the action of the
troops in mind have been serving no.
hce by anonymous letters and other
warnings on guard officers here and
officials In other cities that If another
-red Sunday" comes and they order
the troops to fire they will be held re-
sponsible therefor and their lives be
made the forfeit.
Official Report Of Japanese.
Toxic, March 21.-The following
official announcement has been made:
-Our detachment entered and occu.