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Show A Famous Ghost. According to a Petrograd telegram many Russian sentinels declare they have seen the famous ghost of General ffko-beleff ffko-beleff in a white uniform riding a white horse. Russian tradition says that the apparition marks- a critical moment for the armies of the czar and causes panic in the ranks of the enemy. Skobeleff made such an Impression on the Russian Rus-sian fmaglnaifnn that the story of his reappearance will he believed by millions of peasants. Fie was perhaps the most remarkable military personality Russia has ever produced. He made bis na me in the Russo-Turklsh war of 1877. He was a general before he was 33. He brought about the surrender of Turkey's Tur-key's last army and the capture ot Adrianople. and would have been In Constantinople Con-stantinople had not 1 England Intervened. He was a magnificent leader, a strict disciplinarian, a man of much learning he could ppeak at least seven languages fluently and a jrood friend to his men. The "white horse" legend comes from the fact t ha t he si wn vs wore a white coal and rode a white horse, so that nlfi men could always pick him out. He was a man of the highest courage and dar-inc. dar-inc. but he seemed to hear a charmed life. His- horses were shot under him. his sword was smashed in his hand, his staff were shot down at his side, bullets bul-lets whisfled round him, yet he was never killed. With his impressionable troops the story grew that the bullets went through him and t hat he could not he killed. Archibald Forbes once said that he was one of the greatest cenerals of modern times, and added. "He was the most brilliant man I ever knew, and incomparably in-comparably 1 he finest fighter." He hated Germany and Austria, and speeches that he made on the danger from those quarters quar-ters created a great sensation. Germa retried re-tried to get the czar to restrain his great soldier, but a muzzle was unnecessary, for almost In a few days the voice was suddenly silenced by death in 1882. He was only 10: he might easily have lived to see the present struggle. Manchester Guardian. |