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Show CZAR SENDS WAR MINISTER. Kuropatkin Goes to Study Conditions in Manchuria. Gen. Alexei Nicholaevitch Kuropatkin, Kuropat-kin, the Russian minister of war, whom the czar has dispatched to Manchuria Man-churia on a special train, and whose sudden departure is causing consider- 7VT KCXXM77(W able comment, is the principal military man of Russia, and a notable hero of many campaigns and dangerous undertakings. un-dertakings. Since 1886 Kuropatkin has served in the Russian army. He is distinguished as a geographer and man of science generally, and has a breastful of decorations, many of which were given him by foreign societies. Last year he was made an aid-de-camp of the emperor |
