Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — Worthy of a Bombastes. [ARTICLE]

Worthy of a Bombastes.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times gives the text of Gen. Gribsky’s proclamation threatening to wipe out whole towns of Manchus if any resistance is made to the Russian annexation of the province. Here is a portion of it: “A month ago you committed the insolent absurdity of attacking Blagovestchensk and the Russian inhabitants, forgetting how terribly strong is the great Russian Czar in land, people and guns. “For that you have been severely punished. “The towii of Aigun and the villages along the banks of the Amur, the inhabitants of which dared to fall upon the Russians, have been burned. “Y'our troops are destroyed and the water of the Amur is polluted by masses of dead bodies of Manchus. “The Russians will soon enter all your towns and villages, and this is my solemn word. “Do not fire upon us or cause harm to our troops or to peaceful workmen engaged on the railway, but woe betide anyone who dares to shoot at or otherwise injure a Russian. “His village or town shall be burned to the ground and not one of its inhabitants left alive. “Turn a deaf ear to evil counsellors who urge you to fight with us. They are your enemies and will bring you to ruin and death. “Woe be unto you if you do otherwise than as we command you!”