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Show 'POLISH WARRIOR USAGE OF iMjps Has Received So Many Decorations Dec-orations He Has Forgotten For-gotten Items PARKS, Auff. 4 ny V. 'p From Warsaw conies a slpry from the corT respondent of a French newspaper. He adds that the only documents available In the caao vouch for iho authenticity of the tal. H concerns a Polish soldier of fortune for-tune who claims ti have born 21 years, obi when Npolcon waa rfturnlns; from j Huasla in l'.MI. Once that (undamfn- , lai premise i-j admitted, it Is easy to ! Imaalne this hero nf three renturtea i doing nil! I ta ry aervlcr In the French I army In the days of the first empire and rounding out his fighting career In Manchuria in the Russo-Japanese war of l?oJ-0S. tSnme works a so. according to the correswuidtiit. Monselaa Krasinaki, passing through the Pollah capital, . lost a pockfthoolc containing 60.000 j marks. Ho went to the police station . to make inquiries and laid before the) astonished officials documents giving the date of his birth In 1790, 1n Vol- j ttTTili. 1 Mry" ahnwej,' moreover, that Kraslnxkl served In tha French army , from tn 1 S 1 3. having been a lieu- j lenimt In tho tbfrd squadron of tha First regiment or the Imierla guard j unrior Colonel KoHletuNkl. 8ttl gnlng by the a no worn papers. It appears that Kraslnskl passed Into the Polish army In 1R2S and took part In two rebellions agHinat the Russians, which reaulted In his being sent to ! Hlberta for sixteen years. He forgot his j national hate for the csar and joined j the Russian army during the Crimean j wnr. He was In the campaign In 1 China 1900-01 and served In the Rus- ! sian fnrces against the Japane. j Kraslnskl hna forgotten all the deco- ' ration he had won. but was able to show the correspondent eight medals 1 grunted for service In the rmlen of the 1 ctar and pnpera establishing his tale , of having been wotinrto.l jt M'ski. 1 1 Hi 2 at I.eiprig. U13, and at Demba Wlolke. 131. ! When the correspondent asked how j he accounted for his extraordinary longevity. Krnslnskl said he had never drunk ittt,.ln' HqorrB n J h t tV T a V e n"1 up smoking only when he passed the century mark. Ho added that his father lived to the age of 117 and his mother tn 97. I Kraslnskl, recounting his early days, I told how he had soon Napoleon on hla way bark fmm Moscow, garbed In a green overcoat. Ha recalled also how he had been aL the JUtroslna, whor he-had he-had seen the emperor's sold Ira burning masses of glorious tricolors while th Cossacks gathered In the distance. 1 |