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Show GENERAL LINEVITCH. The London Mail does not make a pleasant pen photograph of General Linevitch. He is a little man, about five feet six inches high and sparcely built. He is brave and has, with small forces, achieved many triumphs; but it declares he has not the first attribute, except pluck, of a great commander. He led the Rusians who, with the allies, made the march from Tien Tsin to the capture of Pekin, and permitted every atrocity on the part of his soldiers. He looted the summer palace in Pekin and his plunder was so enormous that he declared if the customs were exacted from him at Port Arthur, he would be a ruined man. When before Pekin at a conference of the allied commanders Linevitch made a statement which our General Chaffee declared, with emphasis, was a d d lie, and when the American general's words were interpreted to Linevitch he merely said "Dado." He is an old man, nearly seventy, and the article closes by saying: "Unless Russia can produce a staff officer infinitely abler than Napoleon Napol-eon or a born Moltke, at their best, Linevitch has no more chance of gaining a serious victory within the next twelve months than Rojestvensky had of taking his fleet into Vladivostok." In another place it says the Japs are clamorous to clean Linevitch out for the insults he perpetrated upon them in the campaign from the sea shore to Pekin. The Russian military system seems to be utterly ut-terly demoralized in every essential way. Incompetent Incom-petent and quarrelling officers, ignorant and dissatisfied dis-satisfied men. |