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 ^VIIl•:x abandonp:i) by tiik akmv. 14 ' topol;'* but he also brought news that rriiicc CUAP. JNIentschikofr had been reinforced by the arrival '- —, of 10,000 men under Khomoutoff, f and was liourly expecting from the north fresh accessions of strengtli. The messenger also imparted to KornilofT the way in which Prince Mentschikoff intended to employ the army thus augmented in numbers. That last — the cliillinfj part of the communica- Koiniioffs o '- , way of tion — Korniloff kept secret ; but the fact that he dealing ■■• , ' . _ with tliis. was once more in communication with the army, and that the army was heavily reinforced, he did not fail to make known ; and, to do this the more impressively, he took Lieutenant Stetzenko with him along the lines, presenting him to his people as the messenger who had come with the glad tidings from the army, and even, it seems, giving out (though this, as will be presently seen, was the opposite of what had been really determined upon by the Commander-in-Chief) that, accord- ing to the intelligence thus brought from Head- ([uarters, the Prince would immediately attack the Allies. Korniloff knew that this could not be the Montschi- kofTs de- ])resent intention of the Prince : for he had terminatioa to take uji learnt from Lieutenant Stetzenko that what apositiou on the Prince Mentschikoff had resolved to do was to Beiuec: take up a position on the Belbec ; and this was + The force which was in the soutli-east of the Crimea at tho time of the landing (see ante, p. 57), with the exception of the Moscow regiment, which was marclied to the Ahna in time for the battle
 * ' Materiaux pour .sevvir,' chap. iii.