Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-19 | Page 2 | Beliaeff Russia's New War Minister

ILIFF RUSSIA'S ! EEW WM MIIHS1 i ' Fourth Change Made in This Cabinet Position Since War Beg-an. T.ONDOX, Jan. IS, 1 1 :0n a. m General Gen-eral -M.' A. 'Bcliacf'f has been appointed appoint-ed minister of w-ar in the place of Gen-: Gen-: oral ( houvaieff, who has been made a member of tho council of empire, according accord-ing to a Petrograd dispatch to Router's. General Ileliaeff was formerly assistant minister of war and chief of the general gen-eral staff. Prince Vladimir Volkonskv, assistant minister of the interior and formerly j president of the dunia, has been placed on the retired list. The prince was the first member of I ho dunia to receive a high administrative administra-tive post. General M. A. Beliaeff is 54 years of age. He was educated iu the classical schools of Petrograd and received his military instruction in the artillery school and the academy of the general staff, from which he was graduated with high honors. In 1SS4 he joined the twenty. ninth artillery brigade, but was shortly afterward transferred to a staff post. During the Russo-Japanese war General Beliaeff was chief of staff of the first Manehurian army and acting chief of staff of the commander in chief. For his services in the war he received a number of special distinctions, in addition addi-tion to the regular military decorations. Tn :100G General Beliaeff was appointed appoint-ed head of a division of the general staff and in IPOS was promoted to major ma-jor general. The following year he was made quartermaster general. General Beliaeff is the fourth minister minis-ter of war Russia has had since the outbreak out-break of the war. When hostilities began be-gan General Soukhomlinoff held the post, .fie resigned in Juno, IPlo, under charges of misappropriation of war funds and was succeeded by General Polivanoff. " General Polivanoff gave way to General Chouvaieff when Premier Pre-mier Stunner took office.