KORNILOFF'S CAREER.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1917, Page 2

KORNILOFF'S CAREER.

ESCAPE FROM AUSTRIAN PRISON, London, August 5. The correspondent of tho London Times at Russian headquarters, Mr. Wilton, describes General Korniloff, ex-Commander-in-Chief of tho Russian armies, who has just been arrested, (is a tireless, spare Cossack of middle height. His brows are well shaped, his features ruggc.d and swarthy, his eyes Ismail, and piercing, and his manner calm and ponderate. He has infinite control over himself, and is kindly but adasjant. Dispassionate observers on the southwestern front state that tho new destinies of Russia are bound up in this remarkable man. Born in a small village in West Siberia in 1870, of tho humblest parentage, he was compelled from early childhood to work to support the family. As a student he had a 'brilliant parcer, in which, by his indomitable energy, lie, was first in all his classes. He carried out most daring m>s»i<mft in Afghanistan and Turkestan, disguised a3 a native, instead of taking his ease in Petrograd. Tho results of his explorations were most important to science. 'His work in the war stamps him as a great soldier and statesman and as a leader of men. General Korniloff was captured by the Austrians in 'lßls, because he sacrificed a division to save tho left wing at Tarnopol. He was wounded, but fought with a small rearguard until all had fallen. He made a triumphal escape from an Austrian prison, and this brought him immenso popularity. General Korniloff, on accepting tho chief command of tho army, stipulated that nobody should interfere with him, and that measures recently adopted at the front should be applied to depots at tho rear.