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Show The Irish in Russia. The lack of Irish names in the present war between be-tween Bussia and .Japan has been a cause of some wonder to a great many people, says an" exchange. Because it is well known .tbatvvrhcro tiicrufis any': fighting to be done, there you will find the Trish. The Xcwark Ledger, a thoroughly reliable" paper, recently explained lhe absence of Irish names Instating In-stating the impossibility of the Bussians to nias: tor the original names W they could be identified by any one else, and says: "The Irish-descended officers in the Pussian army and navy arc showing up in as good form as 'Kelly, Burke and Shea.' in Mr. J..1. C. Clark's sparkling poem about the Irish soldiers in our army. For instance, as to Bussian officers of Irish Wood, there is the princely family Ob'riitscheff, which is the name of O'Brien twisted by the Russians Rus-sians of 1040, -who welcomed an Irish officer from Tipperary by the name of Colonel Phelcm O'Brien, who fough Cromwell hard in England and Ireland. Ever since 1G50 the family has beoen' prominent in Russian public life and has kept tie Catholic faith. The present General Obruts"clieff won fame by capturing cap-turing Kars-in the war with Turkey. His picture, "Vliown. in a recent magazine article by Jean Paul ,sBeauclerc, shows a 'face and form remarkably like ' that of Captain John J.. Berry of our 'cify. General Odpntcheff of , the Tiussian army,' says the same article, is a lineal descendant of an O'Donnoll. who "went from Ireland two hundred years ago to serve Peter the'- Great.' The pi-cseht'-name Odontcheff is as near as the Russians could got to O'D.onnell. Chaptain' Schallons, the 'doughty ' Cossack com-inander, com-inander, who is playing hob and nob with the Japanese Jap-anese in" Manchuria, traces .his' name to, his greatgrandfather, great-grandfather, a Cork Irishman, Colbuel John Scan-Jon, Scan-Jon, who was on'tlte staff of the Emperor Alex: ander.. Captain Ochelli of-the Russian navfv. who. a f.cw days ago, after a fight with superior numbers, num-bers, was forced to enter and disarm in a Chinese ;' port, is a great-grandson of an Irish 'singer and composer, O'Kclley, who .created lhe tenor roles in -Mozart's operas.' :Wheh Captain Ochelli's ship was boarded by the Japanese in defiance of the treaty of neutrality, he had neither arms nor ammunition; but he beat the Japanese commander with iis fists and rolled' overboard "with him, coming -up, victo.-rious. victo.-rious. Colonel George Whistler (')'Reilly;':biic'vOf the leading engineers on; General Stoessoi's staff at Port Arthur, is the son of a Jersey Citv locomotive . 1 ' , ; . ... ... ' i L - ' 1 builder of fifty years ago Bernard O'Pcilly, who went to Russia with General George Whistler, U. S. A., long a resident of Elizabeth, who resigned from the American army tt design and build the first railroad in Russia. He took a shipload of 'Irish mechanics with him from Newark. Paterson. Jersey City, Ilobokcn and Xew Brunswick. Many-of Many-of tlie sons of those men are on the army and naval lists of Russia, chiefly in the engineering bodies. : 4- |