Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-12
RUSSIA SINGS PRAISES !
OF VICTOR OF GAL|CIA
Lieutenant General KorniIorff Most
Daring and Scholarly Officer
In Army.
STORY OF ROMANTIC CAREER
Made Daring Flight From Austrian
Prison Camp in 1915, After Being
Captured During Great Retreat.
Latest Exploit Due to Him.
lBy Associated Press.)

by Associated Pressl
| PETROGRAD. July 11-Russia Is
ringing with the name of the latest
hero of the war, Lieutenant General L.
q. korniloff. victor Of Gallcia. whose
| astonishing feat first proved that the
new advance is no mere flash in the
| pan. General Korniloff is tho most
daring. chivalrous and scholarly officer
in the army. For a romantic rise from
humble origin. Russian history has
only one parallcl-that Of Michel Vas
silievftch Lomonosof. fishermans son,
poet. philosopher, creator of the mod
ern Russian language, in the first half
Of the eighteenth century.
From log cabin to general is the
literal text Of the chronicle OF General
kornilofr's career. Born forty six
years ago son OF a need strickcn
karalinsk Cossack in Western Siberia,
young korniloff early began rough
forest work. At tho age OF nine he re-
| ceived his first instruction. Whom
| barely thirteen. he. by his own exer-
tons and all night studies. qualified
to enter the Siberian cadet corps,
| largely composed OF sons of local mag
mates. Thanks again to his own eff
forts. he gained free training at the
Michailovsk artillery school where his
| amazing mathematical feats brought
approval from the authorities. even
though he was suspected. with reason,
! of being a secret revolutionary.
/ GETS RANK OF COLONEL
IN JAPANESE WAR
| Next General Kornilor was an Of
| ficer in the guards. and. being penniless.
he was obliged to serve in Turkestan.
In the Japanese war he received the
rank OF colonel. and was intrusted with
la 70 mil NJ In t~
| the retreat from Mukden OF one Of
General Kuropatkin's shattered armies.
| It was executed with such resolution
and skill he was given the st. George
| Cross. Later he travelled oil through
! Turkestan, the Caucasus and Europe
studying, observing and writing invalu-
| able books on Turkcstan and the coun-
| tries of Central Asia.
He speaks not only all European
| languages, but also Persian. Chinese
and every dialect Of Central Asia.
At the outbreak Of the great war he
was in command of the Forty eighth
! Division. In Galicia in 1915 he re-
peated the Mukdcn feat. covering un-
der an unexampled month-long hail
of Austro-German shells, wherein his
own force broke through the encirclng
foe but he himself was wounded and
taken prisoner by the Austrians.
| Enemy press related that their gem
erals were so impressed with General
Kornilofr's accomplishments and noble
| bearing that the return of his sword
showed greater honor to Russia's ad-
: mirable crichton than to their own
victorious commander. After daring
flight from an Austrian prison camp
and astonishing adventures. he reached
Russia.
At the outbreak OF the revolution
he was invited to command the troops
! Of Petrograd. implying full confidence
| in revolutionary Russia. When the
disorders arose. General korniloff.
| fearing the necessity of repression.
resigned. saying he would sooner shoot
the foe than his own countrymen. He
| took command OF the Eighth Army,
| whose billiant exploit is due primarily
| to him.