| Show RUSSIA WITH THE GLOVES OFF s by our special correspondent PERCIVAL GIBBON at petersburg Pete june 30 leaning back among the brocaded cushions of his cavernous armchair the prince stroked blonde beard aa much like the azars czars as the azare own I 1 to has a aulda esquo white hand and Is point device a guardsman but philosophic beyond the grandiose wont of the imperial house we are abashed perhaps he ad dut abashed Is not beaten it Is dangerous oh very to drive a russian into a corner with us to have our back the wall la to begin to live that ie the mongol the sunrise in the blood of thie race it we retain of the animal the foundation one would eay of our nature ob but I 1 am not blind to my own people I 1 have the eyes that come to one from seeing frontiera front lera and how should I 1 not know of what kind aro the men I 1 must perhaps some day lead I 1 will give you what you call ltv a tip my friend yes a tip it Is the mistake 0 europe to go to russia aa one would go to france to england to the Quirl hal one should go to russia in the same way with the bame care and the bame nieace as to china then ah then you begin to talk underneath the prince 1 a member of five clubs IP london nd hie english ja often gracefully idiomatic look now at the be re arned with lowered eyelid joining hie long finfera judicially Is it a man idlee you see chere simply Is it a hand of thing that ie halt appetite and halt education oh but not a bit of it A long way deep down there Is an eastern an oriental and thie oriental is the engine that truly governs tho whole he ia a man like another man because the Oriental cannot go naked the police will run him in it ho is not garmented in respectfulness and trousers and hungen and it is not the all lonely he ie the st m of Russia and out of him liko the twigs of a bush you have the ro manoffe ma the class that profits the class that governs the class that decorates me ti all the same old lot all pitched with the bamo brush wo are easterne Ea sterns underneath and it Is tommyrot to try to put the salt of the west on the tall of the east what ie it of bucci a force you find when you go in gold lace and cocked lints to talk with china it Is a diplomat why can win credit by lying honor by breaking trust and renown by treachery if he take your bribe ba lose no rank if be sell you a pup what then all is lovely in the garden he Is out of your reach yea all the time when you try to pin him down to a square deal be can from you haift dodge where you cannot follow through any wicked sinfulness it Is the soft thing of the his soul is not troubled with business that is for the brain the brain of all the world and the real man ie not bother log himself and yet boutry cocked hate on hamae U it waa a lord mayor A ass te w SCRATCH A RUSSIAN AND the gentle contempt the tolerant and superior amusement on the princes delicate features were things to carvo on a tombstone now thia be resumed kroesing cro esing one admirably leg over the other ie not ng ou can write down and remember line tho name of a estreet you must not judge of him by other people you must take a rest you must lei up and because the Petro la Imme and port arthur will chuck a sponge it Is not to think that all Is going to rip at that no not a bit of it it will take a little bit more yet to give rus aia all the people a veritable scratch and then there will be a tartar to bo caught which will not keep off the grass tor the geneva convention ven tion the japanese he drawled the more they maka war the more they are european but we the longer we fight the more we are easterne Ea sterns and some day we will be how 1 it seriously annoyed with her back against the wall ot a partisan europa fearing howeton howe TOT to chip in russia will er come out wonderfully like a rat in a corner it Is our way these of fleeting these punctilious punctilios of making dead people they cramp our ettje but when wo get our shirfe out aa rudyard shakespeare bays then there wui be a high old kettle of fish there bueb a war as Is not writ ten of a devastation a fight to a finish with nobody to eay oh when there la a hit under the zone and nobody to shout please come out of it when one la down and the other Is engorging him think TAKING OFF COAT he shook hie head meditatively there has not been a war he declared not in verity a war of the true actual war Is the end of law and it 1 proper to kill wounded and hang prisoners and torture epics and poison water it Is the real thing but uneasy to do yet conceive a great people of easterne Ea sterns fighting for very life what shall they stop at what can you forbid with all to lose life credit power an all an all and fighting you fiust cogitate not with a people like them but with a race they regard like yellow liggera nig gera ente with a blooming check coming up out of the east to be code ot the walk ah but russia will engage herself she will take oft her coat and gird her groins and tuck in her all russia the people and the government fighting together money and blood and brains like tho boys of the old brigade but not yet mark not simply tor the petro and port arthur no she will take a hand when there Is danger and danger near that it can kindle what Is not easy to find in the russian his imagination ah but once that Is done we shall be busy and there will be wiga on the lawn the weary listener attempted to etem the tide with a question the prince roused himself to hold up a finger as lie answered AT THE END OF HUMANITY byet he said almost decisively the russian negative clicks like the shutting of a door no my dear frend revolution Is the last danger of peace I 1 am not talking then the people may always revolve now and again they are doing it all the year round it port arthur Is taken tomorrow there Is a good chance somebody will revolve and he will be crushed one hangs a here and there one or two more vanish and it is over but if there Is a heavy danger it will put the government on a steeple russia will come to the belp and keep it all in the family there will be no revolution when once it is up to us lo 10 push the japanese back or be pushed it will clear away much of the foolishness that people talk of in peace these they are fat heads when they try to tte french but us eclavea and easterne Ea sterns they are just sweet win why certainly itis not of a question when russia goes to war my dear old boy it Is only a matter of getting our blood up make her have a lot to lose and then you feht not holy russia but the orient that knows a thing or two oh it Is no end of a game to be an eastern he concluded when you have come to the conclusion of your you have a fine animal left it Is not only the western that can make a hog of himself and you will find that when russia is forced to it h ae can be simply beastly PERCIVAL GIBBON |
