Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-26
General Denikine Russia's
New Hope: Record of the Man
Now to the Fore in the South
What the Successor of Korno and Aexe
the Cossack Forces Is Like-is d ocratc Tendencies
Under the Rule of the Car

warsaw military district persuaded
the then commander-in-c chief of the
district, General Puzyrevsky, to in
vite Denikine into the district staff
After having made his acquaintance,
General PuzyrevslSy, in appreciation
of Denikine's striking ability for
warded a recommendation to Petro-
grad to transfer Denikine to the
general staff, and the functionary
who was taking the place of Kuro-
patkin, who had left for the Japan
ese theater of war, did not dare to
refuse the influential Puzyrevsky. So
Denikine was appointed to serve in
the general staff.
After seeing service in the Russo
Japanese war, where he distinguish
ed himself. Denikine returned to
Russia and served in various dis
tricts. He aroused the enmity of his
superiors by a series of articles in
the military journal Razviedchik,
under the general caption Army
Notes" and under tine nom de plume
of Nochin, which contained castigat-
ing criticisms of the state of affairs
in the War Department. He was
more than once invited into the Of
flee of his raging superiors, particu-
larly by General Sandetzky, in whose
district he served for a long time,
"iiNiC iiS "oo oubJCSiCu W
grillings.
You'll have to forego your liter
| ary exercises, colonel, or else
you understand"
But apparently he did not under
stand, for in the next number of
=, RaZviedchik there appeared another.
still more caustic, article by Nochin.
When the world war broke out
Denikine first served as general
quartermaster for one of the armies,
but later this staff work proved to
be of little satisfaction to his stormy
nature, and he requested to be trans
| ferred to the active front. He was
placed in command of an iron"
| brigade and later of a division of
sharpshooters which wrote a number
of brilliant pages into Russian mill
tary history.
After the revolution Denikine oc-
cupfed the post of chief of staff un-
der the supreme commander, General
Alexieff, and when the latter resign
ed he received, first, the western and
later under General \Kornilov, the
south western front.
| On June 16, 1917, there was held,
at Siniavka, a conference of all army
and front commanders and the mem
| bers of the government. Denikinc
! came TO the conference with a grave
and well-founded report on the con-
| dition of the Russian army. At the
, beginning of this report the general
said:
81 must ask you to excuse me. as
my words will not be, I know. too
pleasant. But | was frank and truth
| ful under the cZar and I will remain
the same under the revolution.
the four months of revolution
ary' army legislation has dissolved
! the army. It has trampled in the
mud our banners. Give them back
: to us. Do not fear; the names of the
autocrats have been obliterated from
them just as they are obliterated from
our hearts. but there is inscribed up
on them the glory of past victories
| and the historic valor of the Rus
sian army. Let us unfurl them in
their full grandeur and glory and
then bow before them"
After this speech A. f. Kerensky
came over to Denikine and said:
General permit me to shake your
hand and to thank you for your
honest and truthful words"
Il But later Kerensky went back on
i Denikine. Alexieff and Korniloff and
fell by his own folly.
i Recently General Denikine made
q tour of the liberated territory of
SOhtii TtuSSid, NlS'IlUB Ine DTlnClDdl
centers, such of Kharkov Ekaterins-
s'av and Tsaritsyn. Everywhere he
rreceived a most enthusiastic well
come from the entire population. In
Kharkov crowds of people gath cred
outside the house where he was stay
ing and would not disperse until the
general came out on the balcony and
; addressed them. After thanking the
people for their warm reception. he
said I'VE bring peace to the labor
ing classes and freedom to Russia,
4 where every workman and peasant
must be guaranteed a free and happy
existence. God grant that our task
he crowned with success, the fratri- :
c,dal war brought TO speedy end
that in the Holy Kremlin we may
offer thanks to God for the sal
walton of Russia"
: And that is the man that is be-
;ieved will save Eus5.a'