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Show GENERAL KUROPATKIN, who has been made governor gov-ernor of Turkestan. I " "l sa lU!lSii - 1 KHPAimO S1ECM RULER Grave Disorders in Turkestan Turke-stan Are Reported From Petrograd. Special Cable to The Tribune. PETROGRAD, Sept. 30. Apparently General Alexei Kuropatkin Js new post as governor of Turkestan is not the sinecure sine-cure it was first imagined to be. Grave disorders are said to have broken out there, the exact nature of which is not known to the public here, and, as Russia will spare very few t-roons for this faj-off province, Kuropatkin Kuro-patkin will have his hands full. Kuropatkin has been retired from a high military office twice in the midst of a great campaign. The first time was in the Russo-Japanese war. For four years Kuropatkin had been minister minis-ter of war, and at the outbreak of hostilities hos-tilities he was made commander-in-chief of the armies in the field. The disastrous disas-trous Manchuria n campaign was begun under his direction, and continued until the Russian defeat at Mukden, when he was removed from command. Though neutral opinion exonerated him from a great deal of the blame for that disaster, disas-ter, he was permitted to live in retirement retire-ment until last summer, when the Russian Rus-sian armies were retiring with all speed before the advance of Von Hindenburg and Von Mackensen through Poland and Galicia. Then Kuropatkin was given his second chance. The grand duke was removed to the Caucasus front, and the czar himself him-self took supreme command. The most vital point along the long fighting line at that time seemed to be Riga, against which Von Hindenburg was striving with all his power in an offensive that was believed to have the capture of Petrograd for its ultimate objective. Tt is indicative of the change of feeling toward Kuropatkin that he was entrusted en-trusted with command of the Riga sector. sec-tor. Tt is not on record how Kuropatkin failed. Riga did not fall, Von Hindenburg Hinden-burg was held along approximately the same line he occupied ou February 2(i, when Kuropatkin assumed command. Since the beginning of the present Russian Rus-sian offensive Kuropatkin 's armies have fought a number of local engagements successfully and in March made a strong effort. That marked Kuropatkin out for retirement, but it is not clear how Kuropatkin Ku-ropatkin was any more to blame- than any of the other Russian army group command era, all of whom, excepting Brussiloff, failed to pierce the enemy's line. |