Russian Pluck.
An American View, Mr. W. Thorp, in the “ World’s Work,” discusses the qualities of the Russian soldiers:— “ There is a monument in Turkestan to several Russian soldiers captured by the Turcomans in 1879. They were artillerymen, and their guns were captured with then*; so the Turcomans naturally ordered them, on penalty of death, to serve those guns against their own comrades. Every man refused, choosing death by horrible torture and dying , without a murmur. “ This passion for self-sacrifice is” the keynote of the Russian character, and is cultivated in the army by every possible means. The recruit is invariably told the story of that heroic company of infantrymen in the Lomakin expedition into Turkestan, who, at a critical moment, threw themselves into a deep ditch in order that the guns which west? sorely needed at &C front might be galloped over their bofisjs* It is doubtful whether this could liMakhappened in my army but th^Russiar^^^^^
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Northland Age, 13 September 1904, Page 3
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157Russian Pluck. Northland Age, 13 September 1904, Page 3
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