Show GIRL BROTnll PUNISNEO fOR TAUNTING T G SOLDIERS Is Brutally Whipped for Remarking That Russians Were as Gay as If They Had Captured Port Arthur St PetersburgIntense popular In tllgnatlon has been created here by the brutal treatment of Mlle Smirnoff a refined young woman at the hands of the crack chevalier guards While a squadron of these guardsmen was passing along the Nevsky Prospect Mlle Smirnoff who was accompanied by another young woman remarked They arc as gay ns If they had cap tured Port Arthur Pedestrians hearing the remark repeated i re-peated It nnd quite a crowd collected and Joined in the Jeering The commander I com-mander of tho cavalrymen suddenly wheeled his squadron and gave the command to charge with drawn whips The troopers then charged the crowd laying about them right and left Mile Smirnoff and her companion who In the meantime had passed down a side street wore pursued They tried to escape Into a doorway but were caught Under the direction of an officer of-ficer they were forced to enter a cab and wero driven to the guards barracks bar-racks where they were taken before Colonel Stenbeckcrformer The latter was disposed to turn Mile Smirnoff over to tho police but other officers Interfered and the girl was finally taken tak-en to the courtyard where troopers in tho presence of two officers administered adminis-tered to her twentyseven lashes with their whips The girls clothing was cut as If by knives by the wire throngs i I of tho whips nnd her flesh Is terribly lacerated |