New-York tribune., 1901-07-28
IN MANCHURIA
TELLTALE. SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS.
THE AWFUL REPRISALS OF COS
SACKS UPON THE PEOPLE
OF AIGUN.
c,on The London Times.

c,,m The London Times.
,t-s Archibald Little VINO has recently trav-
Led home from China through Manchuria and
Siberia sends US the iol9win& notes with re-
me- u fs5, st schens massacre has met with
IN universal condemnation from the British
press 70 heer - record sill extant as to how
glss-rentlv il regarded at the Iime the
a. "EVc should nos say anything it,
go anlIr III the people Of RiagCvestschensk had
~ EiIed ali their own servants and employees of
many many ss'tiI cannot mink how it occurred
gHroared out Russian official. 'Gribsky, the
E-i+error OUT aere. IS most charming man. and
60 oyernor Of Khaharovloa. TO whom he referred
he matter Ata - -A.'leSt OF heattS liiiHA II
IL rhru f,rihsSv trlcgr90hn7 ROW BlaPovpSt
ss- Scr Of Khs6arovEa telegraphed back: In war
nm and destroy. ana think Grlhsky cannot
& aaEe 5H R2l't t5e chinese ana forced them into the
river On boats that could no not carry & them and
ND begsed that they n least might he saved the
ScossacRs caught Inc babies or their hay yonets
GIlosHf + - wonderful Russian French they talk
~ y he Anur He Is not bon, mas mauvais tres
mauVais s,i,lied ~ ger TO Sahaiine the one
e.; chinese cfty on the other side Of the river
eISctly opposite Blagovestschensk. Yes, because
d oe" ara ~ ana he pointai down into its
se1ibs then laughed because he had said nothing,
es[ esy'ttol told all How, no one knows how it oc..
s culI 70 be a matter of doubt. Ii last sum
meE ,6a 6t 1eople Of fagoYestschensk have had to
sn1 r. their own work since That they know, and
81 B1t there exists teltale series of photographs
taken at the time at the request OF 2soVernpr et
Gribsky it would appear. a very strlhlHg iooh I
s1r 0personaity. and the head Attaman OF ali ihe
Cossacks Of the Anur district IL arrears ,onar ,nar
the Chinese at Aigun. some iorty Netsts ioMs5 WI
down the river. fired at a passenger steamer, ana ana
mai was the beginning of it all, and Tor nine
teen days no steamer arrived al f ,a
coming up river. There Is photograph ,a OF me
So1 Started fun Of Cossacks to take reprisals
mon the people of Aigun, with a solemn religlous
Charles present Then there is a photograph OF
re frst steamer 10 come back from Aigun dressed
mers and wounded. and with the whole popula-
T5n of Blagovestschensk turned out to welcome
tf all in high eXultation. BagoVeStschensk Is
quite large place, stretching for miles along me
river front with roads as wide as the widest rodus
when il rains-and with very grand eInporIunls
rather than shops but IKE me TfS1 OF TIo7isy
enough for a Siberian city. without even a Inu-
scum. But il is fun of people. and the crowd in
photograph taken by the request OF me -, 19n 9
stroyed only the great. strong chtmne!s stand
ing upright not inhabitapt left In II, city
tosraphs of the Chinese city of Sahaline. exactly
opposite Blagovestschensk, as il was before the
massacre, the fine house OF the Tlchest eFc.rae' @
since dead, the curved roofs of the ornate temple
etc; and then, most striking OF all, OF the re-
the massacre. Not because Of the massacre
said the Photographic. nut because II hao Cs.sTu
TO be Sshaline and become RUSSIAN OUTPOST: ~ -
had certainly ceased to be Sahaline- People there
still declare the river was choked with the mutt
tude of Chinese people-unonen pc peaceaD ttre
inhabitants-suddenly thrown into 1t, ana there
was another photograph OF the ruins OF What hau
Neen Sahslire with a party Of ladies over from
Blsgovestschensk in the foreground, enjoying Ihe
prospect, and the ruins still smoking behnd them;
again the solid chimneys alone upstahalhs IN IN
the photographs of the religious service mere
was q great Russian cross in the centre ana an
altar and several popes around IT, General GTiosky
81 the head of his staff on one sloe ana an ie
thanks TO Almighty God that they had utterly
hotted out city OF nVe thousano or SIX Il
inhs bitants, who no one on the spot even aieees
had raised a finger against the Russians: puI VINO
had till that time been chiefly engaged IN arlvlng i
their carts. carrying their burdens ana serving
their shops and houses. Man, woman and child,
they had been given over TO slaughter; and, 10
Judge by appearances, the same had peen me
cese with every Chinese settlement all along the
the right or Chinese side OF the Amur River There
was another photograph, after Gribsky's de-
four officiating popes and other people VINO look
part ,,,, ,,.,s,..ooa
that some high Russian official held responsible
had been so severely reprimanded that he after
of the kind has been heard of, although Gribsky
IS said to have been reprimanded by the Czar.
tonary force into Manchuria from the west is
also said have been reprimandeo, some say be-
he appended TO every one Of MS teiegrams
the peaceful inhabitants" People have tried TO
put down the excesses in China TO the Russian
forces there. consisting largely OF Arnursky Cos
eacks but the people / have asked all say, Cos
sacks DO not like killing. only II one OF them Is
killed they get savage or If they get orders from
their oflcers they viii kill every one" But do
their officers ever tell them TO Kill every one?
do not say that it is right was the answer | got
etc II seems but TOO clear that the Russian idea
is as some of them will state in converse ton,
the hre9 the foe and that 1t is, after ALL the
most nerciful course in the long run