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Show GIRL BRUTALLY PISHED FOR TAUNTING SOLDIERS Is Brutally Whipped for Remarking That Russians Were as Oay ss If They Had Csptured Port Arthur. Bt Petersburg Intense popular In dlgnatlon haa been created here by the brutal treatment nf Mite Smirnoff a refined young woman at the hands of the crack chevalier guards While a squadron ot these guardsmen was passing along the Nevsky Prospect Mile Smirnoff who wai accompanied by another )oung womnn, remarked "They are as gay ns If they had cap turcd Port Arthur" Pedestrians hearing the remark re pented It, and quite n crowd collected and Joined In the Jeering The com mnndi r of tho rnvnlr)mcn suddenly wheeled his squadron nnd gavo the command to charge with drawn whips The troopers then charged the crowd Inylng about them right and left Mile Smirnoff and her companion who In tho meantime had passed down a stdo street, were pursued They tried lo escape Into n doorway but were caught Under the direction of an of fleer they were forced to enter a cnb and were rirlvtii to the guards' barracks bar-racks whtre Ihey wcro taken before Colonel Btenbeckerformcr Tho latter was disponed to turn Mile Smirnoff over to tho police but other officers Interfered nnd the girl was finally tak fn to tha courtyard, where troopers, In tho presenco of two officers, administered adminis-tered to her twenty soven lashes with their whips Thn gltla clothing was cut as It li knives by tho wire throngs nf thn whips nnd her flesh is terrlbl) lacerated |