Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-21
MASSACRE OF JEWS
Russian Press Com e eata on
the Kishinyov Riots.
SCENES OF DEsoLATIoN
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF POOR
LARoRINa PEOPLE.
No Efforts Made to Prevent a Prear-
ranged Uprising Of the
People.
Written for The Evening Star.

| Written for The Evening Star.
| The massacre of the Jews in Kishinyov
| has come as a grim commentary upon the
| cars recent manifesto on religious toler
| ance. And comes the conventional official
| dement, that the reports of the disturb
ance. Now comes the conventional official
the sufferings are not so great to call
| for relief from outside sources. The
| facts published in the censored Russian
| press are sufficient, however, to give the
lie to these official statements. The mas
| sacres took place on April 10 and 20; the
| first official communication appeared in. the
| Dravitelstvennyi Vyestnik of st. Peters
| burg on the 18th of April; not a word men,
| tioning the events at KishinyOv was utter
| ed in the Russian press previously to the
| official publication. The Ruskiya Vyedo-
most of Moscow had a special correspond
ent on the spot on the ODD, two days after
the riot it takes about two days to reach
Kishinyov from Moscow; evidently he
| was commissioned as soon as the wires
| brought the news to the editorial offices;
yet, though he reached Kishinyov three
days in advance of the official publication,
his report appeared only on May 2. fully
| week later than the official announcement.
| OF course any one who has an idea OF the
Russian censorship will understand the
reason why. The reports which appeared
! in the Russian press after the bars had
| been raised by the government cannot be
| impeached for exaggeration; sensational
ism does not flourish under the -Damocle's
sword Of the Russian censorship.
An Anti-Semitic Account.
The following is from the anti Semitic
Novoye Vryemya of April rs, reprinted
| from the BessarabetZ, the Kishinyov anti
| Semitic paper: 49,
| ut is saddening sight of complete de-
struction. The poor are the principal suf-
| ferers; the damage is doubtless great;
many have been left without food and
| shelter
| The same paper has the following report
of the autopsy of the bodies of Jews killed
| in the riots:
1.-THE causes of death were easily ascer-
| tanned, because all wounds were inflicted
| exclusively on the head with heavy, dull
| weapons, such as pieces of broken furni-
| ture, bludgeons, &c For this reason dis
sections were dispensed with and simple
external inspections were made. In the
Jewish hospital there are sixty-two pa
| tients with serious injuries, also exclusively
on the head. Many are horribly mutilated,
| with their noses broken, eyes and teeth
knocked out and jaws fractured. Most of
| them are in a hopeless condition The Jew
ish hospital has the appearance of a field
hospital after battle; it is overfilled with
wounded; there Is not a passageway left
I free in the wards sail available space in the
| dining rooms, the waiting rooms and every
where else Is crowded with cots (Re-
printed in Nevoyes Vryemya April 80
From Conservative Journal
The same paper in it's issue of April %
| reproduces a description of the riots from
the st. Petersburg Record, a conservative
| paper, published by Prince Oukhtomsky, a
| personal friend Of the car:
&C. Phi
| defying description Jews who happened to
come across were beaten into inSensibility.
One Jew who was noticed riding in a street
| car was dragged off and beaten SO long
| that the mob thought him dead. Wretched
| shanties of the poor, one might say pau
pers, were RACED to the ground and their
| household goods converted into heap Of
| rubbish.
This was kept up until nightfall. Early
| next morning the mobs were at it again.
| The report goes on as follows:
1.-The rioters were armed with hammers
| axes and picks The police shouted very
| severely at the rioters; patrols of soldiers
with rifles in shooting order no less
| verely called the Infatuated murderers to
| order. Still the latter paid scant attention
| to it and went with their work of de-
| vastaton. On that day every street was
! ravaged wherever a Jewish dwelling could
be found. Toward the evening, however, it
| became quiet. Gangs of the populace
| driven by the patrols, even without the
use of arms, gathered less and less fire.
| quently The next day peace was re-
| stored"
An Appeal for Help.
The Bessarabetz. which is trying to work
up sympathy for the rioters, has the fol-
| lowing editorial comment of the massacre:
Are the masses indeed so much to blame
if they are ignorant as to believe that
AN order came from st. Petersburg to beat
| tod ;p
| Vryemya of April 3O)
The Novoye Vryemya in its issue of May
| 2 has letter from it's special correspond
ent from which the following is quoted:
| ION April % a special meeting of the
| city council held. The mayor recon-
| mended that 100000 roubles should be APP
propriated for the suffering Jews, but he
met with no sympathy from the council
| men, who pointed out that the income from
! the meat tax was ample for that purpose.
! (The meat tax is special tax levied upon
| the Jews for the support of their public IN
| situations. such as schools. hospitals, etc)
Councilman Georgion charged the adj
ministration with neglect of duty; three of
| the councilmen are named by the Jews as
| accomplices and instgators of the rioters;
the persons so accused are men of means.
| one is a register of deeds, another a land
! lord and the third a physician
| "Upshoots of the Kishnyov riots are re-
ported from few places within the Kish-
inyov and Argeyev districts; in the village
!
place in Chepleny. Mereny, Gryshovo Vad-
uluvida, Orgeyev. SaroX and other places
The mayor of Kishinyov has made
through the newspapers an appeal for
subscriptions, which is given here YER
| batim: II II
Help! On the first two days of Easter
street riots against the Jews took place in
Kishinyov. a mass of sufferers have been
left without food and shelter; there are
a mass of orphans and widows. The
situation is amazingly distressing, Speedy
| and liberal aid Is wanted. Having opened
with the permission of the governor of
Kishinyov a. subscription for the benefit
| of the sufferering Jews of Kishinyov, the
mayor of Kishinyov appeals to all citizens
| of KishinyoY with an earnest request to
| help as much as they can. Only wide
sympathy with the suffering of the VIC
| tins manifested by all the people of Kish-
| inyov and Bessarabia in liberal contribu-
| tions will enable ito relieve the sufferers
| Contributions should be addressed to the
office of the mayor of Kishinyov."
From an Opposition Journal.
The reports quoted above all from
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