A DAREDEVIL YOUNG RUS SIAN GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 861, 22 December 1877, Page 4

A DAREDEVIL YOUNG RUS SIAN GENERAL.

Asiong the pflicers on tho Grand. Duke's staff is a . tall, . handsome. m«n, with a lithe,' slender, ac'i'iv;^ figure, a clear ; blue eye, . ; a largf , pvoaiinent, well-shaped nose, ••■•and lace vouug enough for a second lieutenaut. It. if*.* Skobdloff,- : 'Hhe , youngest genoral .m the . Rnasianv«rmy, tiie conqueror of Kbokand. Ho has the reputation; et/en among" the Russians, of beiog- a madmati j who would fling away his own li^ '. these of liis "troops '''without; "the 4 " ' |Sli.w|ites regard for .consequences;: |Duving the war which resulted m chf ; fconquest of Khokand, a- Russian. |detacbment of 800 mon, ; With ;4oo J was compelled [b "'reßi-eat bhefore a superior force of tlie-etierny,. j Qener **,1 Trojs'ky decicl.e£ "upmi "li night attack and confided his, plaft. \ 'to Colonel Skobeloff; then his chiefj ■of staff. The latter entered- into the" ■ijClea vvith great enthusiasm, ahcj;prQ-° ' t posed to lead the attacking" co'lupin,. . himself, and to tube.;. only 150 Co»aclc3. Skobeloff, havifig'i'eo'dii^ _ noitered the gro ( nnfl, percoive.'l'th'at tlio- Kkokandians had <.ncani[i.o- ; , . a mile and a half, vof the. . i-Kussiiins, m an open plainj wivieli ; - : K;tve overy,' facility for ;'tl,V ma- ,cou Wing of .cavalry. Ab mid-. ' night he took hia ono tiundi-ed an., iiliy Cossacks, divided ihem into threo parties, and cautiously aiii< ror; nded the enemy's cm nip. Til/ p-u'ty, led by Sk.iholoiT. hims-lr, ffti;tn;igecl to pa,-..4 the enemy's outpost* who were >ouucl .-•sle..}). Then bo save the sig«.,i. fb..* S ittuok by aring a pihtol, and followed by his

one hundred and' tifty OoSHtfeks.-h » rode heiiillbiig' into tho (-uerny's -camp** of six or seven hnndred men, shouting and.yiiling likd . tjvudftcaud.jp.viJi.J tiiitf down evor.i thing' m their lasaiig^'-^vW^ffciH^h^rtn^Mu' ther pliin* Wn^dWi : 4ilsh 3 shMeks T^ud. yejl^sb^-the t»*>ra|?lin^gUd^B^ shbuUt iiftcL-groaiia, and %Jl*-#§lup-roar of battle. Then HllwjtSislleuce ; Skjobeloff a_aembled|4iiß««®Ate»cks, anji when (atoj'lV^ Jt ,^lM,fi! ,M ' 1 th 4 whole army of the enemy, si>c ur Bev*en*-tho\-i*siirid niewlwdnlisu.<poai'edlea\iug"|OU|tlvo field aV o '^ <4 Q Af^r tvv<> oVthree riius "ets ami sabfl-s, Ml the;ir.;f.c^nip. l iu^erial ,|uad.. -baggage. Bn}. Av liivkiwiisUfis; astjo.uiah tnen|i ( on< caliitiii: -fche \b\\- td.-Uisco\^ivthat ; hehiicj iob lost, a oian, either killed pr uwif Jiqi ,oiii!tho lia.nk»-of tho.iQ*. v8 i-j relates this. exph._fc'-sJO_ show. .-* bow : much method thet-e~ia--in the dHie•Jevii's madfM*^.^.Bli-clmr_§ei-i'-:*S-''-i As i Muumuitmm*mmmmm i ■-.--» ...