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Show ON HIS SAUTT'S DAT XtraOPATEJN EXPECTED , 10 MAKE BOLD HOVE. ST. PETERSBURG. March 16. Gen. Kuropatkln expects to reach Mukden March 26th, and everything will be sidetracked side-tracked In order to get him to the front on schedule time. . The General bears an autograph letter 'from the Emperor to Viceroy Alexleff, to whom he will report. It is understood under-stood that the Viceroy then will turn over the entire direction .of the land operations op-erations to Gen. Kuropatkln, who will transmit his reports to the Emperor through the Viceroy, but practically this is only the point on which Viceroy Alexleff will maintain superiority. Gen. Kuropatkln had his plan of campaign cam-paign practically perfected before he left here for the far East. He returned re-turned to St. Petersburg quietly from his country home and his presence here was not known for four days. These four days he devoted to the elaboration of his plans, in conjunction with his staff and with the aid of the information informa-tion in possession of the Ministry of War, as well as of the special reports from the theater of war. A superstitious idea prevails here that Gen. Kuropatkln will signalise his birthday, which will occur on March SOth, and which is also his patron saint's day, with some important act. On account of the difficulty of housing hous-ing the vast number of troops poured into Mukden 14,000 have been sent forward for-ward within the past few days toward the Yalu river as reinforcements for the 7000 troops already at Kusan and Anju. and the stream of soldiers from Euro-' Euro-' pean Russia is now being held at Harbin. |