The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-13
REPORT ON KISHINEFF
AUTHORITIES COULD HAVE
 CHECKED MoDS.
The New Governor of Bessarabia ia Trying to Gain the Confidence of the Jews and is
 Humane.

London, Aug. l2.-A dispatch from the British consul general at Odessa for warding the report made by the British vice-consul at Odessa. V. Bosanquet, who was sent specially to Kisheneff to obtain the facts regarding the recent anti-Jewish riots there, Is published today.
 Mr. Bosanquet's report. which is dated July 2s. generally agrees with the stories of the occurrences eabiad to the Asso- ciated Press. It says:
 'sThe area of the disturbances comprised two-thirds of the town of KishineR. The murders all occurred on Monday. the second day of the disturbances. They were perpetrated by bands of rioters in different parts of the town. Many be- lieve they were the work of organized companies, which fact argues in favor of e pre-arranged conspiracy to extermi- nate the Jews. If this belief is not ac- cepted, the riots must be attributed to the articles in the Bassarabett, the anti Semitic organ in Kishineff, to the un- founded report of the Jewish murder of a Christian priest, to the wine drunk early on Monday and to the belief which seems to have grown with the continued in action of the authorities that the latter wished the Jews to be niassacred or had even ordered it. Apparently feeling ex- isted among the lower classes that the Jews ought not to be in a majority in Kisheneff
 '"The local authorities took no effective step to stop the riots. The soldiers were passive If not sympathetic spectators. The police contented themselves with the arrest of minor criminals until { o'clock in the afternoon when the Governor, who had remained at home, telephoning orders which were disregarded at length ventur- ed to sign the necessary order for the troops to be employed. The only case I heard of in which the latter used their weapons was when they bayonetted a Christian boy who was pursuing a Jew with stones. This boy was the only Christian killed during the disturbances. If resolute action had been taken by the authorities believe the riots would have been checked at an early stage"
 Mir. BoSanquest places the Jewish vic- tins at forty-one killed and 303 wounded while among tho Christians one was killed and sixty-eight wounded. Off1cial inqui- ries, he says. shows that three women were violated, but this may well represent a small fraction of the actual number, since the Jewish women naturally remain silent for their own sakes, as under the Mosaic law divorce must follow violation. The Vice-Consul heard of the rape of a girl 12 years old, and others aged 13, but this was only hearsay. Mutilation and deliberate torture of the victims. he says, does not seem to have been practiced. Though there were undoubtedly great bar barities, he only knows of one case of mu- tilation, when a mans eye was put out with a nail. He heard stories of mutila- ton after death and of a child being torn limb from limb, but he considers the latter story to be improbable. considering that only two little children appear to have perished.
 Mir. Bosanquet pays a tribute to Prince Urusoff, the new Governor of Bessarabia, means in his power. On the arrival of the new Governor, who Is doing all he can to gain the confidence of the Jewish population" adds the Vice-Consul. mat ters began to improve, and the commer- cial life of the town was resumed. new conner, visiting the Jewish quarter, can see no signs of a stoppage of business, and it is hoped that Jewish commercial affairs are on a fair way to regain their prosperity, though they have not yet en- tirely recovered. The Jews place their losses at 2,000, 900 rubles, but this figure is probably an exaggeration.
 About S80 rioters were arrested and 30s were punished on minor charges, while 216 were acquitted. Three hundred and sixty rioters will be tried at Tiras- pol, in October, of which number 100 are charged with murder in addition to other crimes. If they are found guilty. they wil be sentenced to penal servitude on the Island of Sakhalin."