Show ROYAL REVENuE FOR RUTtlLESS RAPINE ClIo I Extraordinary Meeting at the White Palace Upon Receipt of Awful News from Peking at Which Plans for f < < Vengeance were Devised by a WomarjGrand Duchess Vladimir Intimate of Mme De Giers Proposes Pro-poses Annihilation of the Yellow Race as the Only Adequate Reparation for Unspeakable Crimes I V F e t t o Ua dQ u9 r S 11 II t rt ll ar Y r r t p a I f N Duchess Vladimir St Petersburg July OScll1lch a Russian and you rInd a Tartar There Is the savage strain in the Russian beneath be-neath Us veneer of civilization as there Is beneath the Mongols oily skin The news of the horrible tortures perpetrated on Baron and Mme de Glera in Peking and of the revolting outrage on the latter has caused an Indescribable feeling of rage to overcome over-come tho members of tho aristocratic class here against the eAt e-At a meeting held at the White pal aco immediately upon receipt of the hideous news not one detail of which is now doubted the Czar wept copiously co-piously 1 and the ladles of the court vowed vengeance such as never before has been dealt out to a nation against the perpetrators of the vile deeds The beautiful Duchess Vladimir who was on terms of the closest Intimacy with the ate Mme de Giers stirred everyone every-one to the highest pitch by her eloquence elo-quence and her demand that not a Chinaman be left alive while them was a Russian to kill I him brought the same expression of sentiment from almost al-most everyone present The Czar was powerless to prevent the llery eloquence of the Duchess which was exactly in accord with the feelings of the military party 1 many powerful members of which were present pres-ent and pledged themselves to do anything any-thing in their power to Inflict the most terrible vengeance on the Chinese The Dowager Empress must end her days In the Siberian mines and suffer every torture that can he devised for she is at the bottom of this massacre cried the Grand Duchess adding 1 also propose that reward of one hundred hun-dred thousand rubles be offered for tho capture of Prince Tuan alive Once In our hands what he should suffer In torture In Russian dungeons would surpass even Chinese imagination In the line of cruelty I would propose the razing of every Chinese city on the coast and wherever one can be reached by river or canal as an Initial hove Ever temple should bo destroyed de-stroyed and all the sacred graves desecrated dese-crated Then Inch by Inch the savage sav-age hordes be driven from our eastern frontier on the Pacific until the last Chinaman shall have been annihilated annihi-lated They have given our defense loss ones no quarter there should be I no quarter for them It Russia alone cannot consummate this let a united Christendom Inaugurate Inaugu-rate a new war of the Crusades and soldiers of even white race carry out Blinder the banner of the cross the extermination exter-mination of the vilest of races The scene In the royal reception chamber while the Duchess was making mak-ing this speech was one of the most remarkable re-markable ever witnessed Thn well modulated tones of the beautiful speaker speak-er raised to a higher key than usual seemed to the bronzed heroes of many wais as If filled with electric lire and strong men trembled with indescribable rage as the torrent of her oratory swept like a molten wave over the assembled crowd of rand dukes and duchesses and other members of the nobility One who saw the effect of those wild and Impassioned woids could not help but road the destiny of China written writ-ten then and there The most swift and terrible retribution Ilion I-lion that can be devised to avenge our loved ones and save civilization from a repetition of outrages that are unspeakable unspeak-able is what all present should take an Inviolable oath to see consummated caused the climax to the thrilling words of this remarkable womanand there one after another those assembled Joined hands in solemn compact to seethe see-the vengeance carried out The Czar with bowed head listened but did not speak The powerful no hies who surrounded him would hnve theIr with brooked Interference no iw plans for great a ruler as he may not the Czar of all the Russlas could th lr of withstand a combination StrenUi tronst An = What the outcome of the exttaoriu nary scene will be no ono can tell There nre those In SL Petersburg f who bcllovo the Idea l mavbc arteuon anu Dlans are said to bo forming for an antiChinese propaganda on the q ° jV basis as that on which the antlJcxvlsn formed one was The Duchess is arranging tle said > to hrfvc tho most violent speeches on the subject delivered throughout the empire The press is to be utilized and the hotrod every effort made to arquficvthe the Chinese HO of the masses JUtnstt1W engendered too that a feeling will be en strong oven for the Government to prevent pre-vent the carrying out of the most xio lent plans concerning the au There is no doubt t thintlcltv of the facts as to what the Grand Duchess said at the White palace as they wore descrlirod to your correspondent Corre-spondent by one who was present on that memorable occasion That Russia would not allow herself to be hampered In her attempt to obtain ob-tain revenge also Is positive nlthoug h she cooperation could she would count to her method or bo left unhampered as treating the Chinese I VALERIE DELAMOUR |