KORNER, KARL THE ODOR

(17911813), Ger. poet; 6. Dresden; wrote potrloge poetry (Leyer und Schwert) and plays. (1870-1918), Ru ian general, of Co ack birth; entered army, 1888, and prior to the World War pa ed greater part of his career in Asia. During Ru o-Jap. War he fought at Mukden, Sanden, and Teliff, - and in retreat from Mukden gained distinction. From 1907 to 1911, he was Ru ian military agent in China, and later received various commands in Siberia. On the outbreak of the World War, 1914, he was given command of @ division of Bru ilov’s army, and covered himsel? with glory in the early days of the campaign. During Ru ian retreat, April, 1915, in order to secure the safe and uninterrupted evacuation of the army, he maintained an obstinate fight with a small rearguard. The army escaped, but the rearguard, including Kornilov, who was seriously wounded, were captured. Some fifteen months later he effected his escape disguised as. an Austrian soldier, and after various hairbreadth escapes reached Rumania on the eve of her declaration of was against Austria, Within a month he was given _ command of the 25th Army Corps and was back in the fighting line. On the outbreak of the revolution in Ru ia, March, 1917, he became commander-in= chief of the troops in Petrograd; but indis- ~ discipline being rampant in the army and fostered by the Council of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates, he resigned the come mand for that of the 8th Army. Oz Aug. 1., he succeeded Bru ilov as generali imo, and at once took strong military measures for the restoration of discipline. In Sept., 1917, he demanded - that Kerensky should devolve on him all civil and military power; whereupon he was dismi ed, and marched with his troops on Petrograd. His movement ae a i aie ‘ collapsed, and on Sept, 15, he surrendered to General Alexeieff, He managed to escapes to the Caucasus, where he gathered together a force of volunteer Co acks, but was killed in front of Bkaterinodar, March, 1918 éown, Ru ia. Pop, 15,000. I: EOROLENKO, VLADIMIR (1853), @ Ru ian novelist, He began to write at the age of 30 when in exile as a political criminal in Siberia. His works became widely read and greatly admired. They include Bad Company, The Dream of Makara, etc. port, Denmark. Pop. 10,600, cathedral town, Albania, Pop, c, 10,000.