The Archive · 1926

Surrounded by Enemies

The Okhotsk, wita two others, gtr, Zastdhitnik and the Mongugai, arrived outside Woosung on September 14, 1925, having on board 852 officers, N.C.0's, and rank and file, from Gensan, Korea, under. the command of Lieutenant-General Theodor Lvovich Gleboft.

Gon. Gleboff was promoted an officer on the field by-the late Tsar} Nicholas LI. As a private soldier he earned the four grades of the Cross St. George, which decoration corresponds to" the Victoria Cross ded _in the British Army for valour, He was also given the Pirst Class of the Order of St, Anne with the Cross of the Onder placed dri his sword as a further acknow-Tedgment of his bravery. He nas also the Order of St. Stanislaus with swords. General Glebof? orginally belonged to a regiment of Siberian Cossacks, is only 38 years of age and is in Shanghai recovering from a serious internal complaint, a legacy of the privations, hardships, and) wounds contracted during and after the Greay War.

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