June 7.
'THIN ORNTLE GENDARME, The fifty-four Japanese tourists who are at present making round of the world under the joint protection of Cook and the "Asahi Shimbun," passed through America, England, France, Italy, Germany and various other countries without getting into trouble, but here in St. Petersbarg they were nearly getting into trouble on June & through the officiousness of gendarme at the Winter Palace, Under the direction of one of Cook's guides, a Russian, they had visited the Winter Palace by special permission and after leaving that building they were walking slowly along the Palace Quay in the direction of their hotel when one of the numerous armed gendarmes posted about the Palace went up to them and told them in an offend sive tone to "buck up and walk more quickly." Cook's guide bluntly told the gendarme to shut up, whereupon the latter, enraged, took aim with rifle at the crowd of unarmed Japanese ing them that they were under arrest and that he would fire if they moved another inch, Several of the Japanese ran away and the soldier might have shot them down had not some officers and soldiers who bad just seen the party leave the palace, rushed out of that building, and prevented the furious gendarme from doing something which might have caused him much trouble Inter on. Explanations were offered by Cook's guide and finally the whole party were allowed to move on without an apology being offered them. While the trouble was st its height
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