Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-23
PATRIOTISM ouTwEleHs coNslD.
GERATIoNs OF DISGRACE WITH
RUSSIAN WARRIOR.
WELCOMED BY SOLDIERS
Fighting Men Are Glad to Have Vet
eran With Them Asaln-RussIan
Rear Guard Seventy Miles North Of
Tie Pass-Japanese Appear Before
Russians at Machantzy.

ST. Petersburg, March PA i
dispatch from General Linevitch
dated March 21, says: "Yester-
day Japanese cavalry detachments
appeared In front of our advance
posts. Behind the cavalry were
Infantry, who halted at the vii
lage Of Machantzy."
ST. Petersburg, March 22. Gen.
eraI kuropatkin has been appoint
ed commander of the first Man.
churIan army The appointment
Is gazetted In the Official Messen-
ger.
4 ST. Petersburg, March 22.-At
the admiralty 1t Is strongly lnti-
mated that Admiral Rojestvensky
will effect juncture with Admiral
Nebotgatoff within ten days and
will then proceed eastward to
meet Admiral Togo.
Gunshu Pass, March 22.-General
was given a great ovation.
The Russian rear guard Is now at
Sipinghai, seventy miles north of Tie
Pass. The Japanese are slowly pur-
suing but are not energetically press
ing the rear Apparently General
Oyama is holding his main army at
Tie Pass.
Bridges Burned by Russians.
When the Russians evacuated Tie
Pass March 15 one span of the bridge
over the Tenai river, which flows into
the Lao river, just north Of the town,
was destroyed by dynamite immedi-
ately after the last train had been dis
patched northward, and as the army
moved northward the bridges on the
railroad were disabled and everything
in the shape of stores, ETC., which
could not be taken was burned.
Fighting Near Gunshu Pass.
The booming of guns on the right
flank was heard all morning.
kuropatkin's New Work.
st. Petersburg, March 22.-The
Russian army in Manchuria is still to
have the services of General Kuropat-
kin, who is considered by many, in
spite of his series of reverses. the best
general and foremost stragetist Of the
I Russian army Sinking all feeling of
personal bitterness because of his su-
persession and all the old time enmity
between himself and General Linevitch
In patriotic desire to be of service
to the fatherland, the former COM
mander-in-chief volunteered to remain
In any capacity with the army which
he had so long commanded. The ten
der has been accepted by Emperor
Nicholas and gratefully received by the
new leader of the grand army.
The change exactly reverses the old
order of affairs, when Kuropatkin was
the supreme leader and Linevitch di-
rected the first army.
Popular With People.
Authoritative news of this remarka-
BILE step was known in Manchuria
much earlier than in ST. Petersburg
General Kuropatkin, having paused on
his homeward journey at Harbin
started southwark the afternoon OF
March 90. amidst most remarkable
farewell from the residents of Harbin
and soldiers who are on their way to
/ fill out the ranks of the depleted army
The send-off was mere fore-taste OF
that which awaits General Kuropatkin
at the front. and his self-sacrificing
determination and the equally patri
btic course of General Linevitch in ac
\ cepting the services rendered are
bound to do wonders for the re-inspir
alton of the emperors legions and give
promise of union and harmony at the
council table. which that army has
hitherto lacked.
The retreat is apparently progress
ing uneventfully. No dispatches Of
moment were received yesterday.
Report Is Not Credited.
Little weight is placed here in the
deduction drawn at certain European
capitals from the dispatch announcing
that cannonading had been hearG
south of Tie pass, that General Ren
nenkampff's corps, endeavoring to re
join the main army, had been inter
cepted south of Tie pass. AS stated
yesterday morning, the dispatch il
question undoubtedly was erroneous
and it may be pointed out that severa
correspondents at the front have men
toned the orderly retreat of Genera
Linevitch's army and asserted that Il
III effected a concentration at Tie pass
!, ,Mwith scarcely straggler missing, bu
q made no mention of the absence of sc
well. known fighter as Rennenkampff
In addition, the Associated Press cor
respondent, M. Toluzakoff, who was
with Rennenkampff's command during
the battle has arrived at general head
quarters slightly wounded.
Preparations are now making for the
mobilization of number of detach
y b lr !