The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-18
AGAINST JEWS,
RUSSIA NOW FORBIDs THEM DE-
 PENDING THEMSELVES.

A MinisteriaI Circular to This Effect
 Issued-Expecfed to stimulate Ensi-
 grafton to Americn- Three Thousand
 suits for Damage Instituted Against
 state of Ktschenefr.
 St. Petersburg, May 17.Lieutenant General von Raaben. governor of Bes- sarabia fthe capital of which is Kisch- eneffl has been summoned to St. Pe- tersburg.
 A ministerial circular forbidding the Jews to defend themselves has been is- sued. It IS expected that this step will stimulate Jewish emigration to Amer ica.
 Three thousand suits for damages have been instituted against the state at Kischeneff The damages demand ed amount to s1,50O,OoO.
 London, May 1S.-David Alexander and Claude Montefiore, two of the lead- ing representative Jews in England. publish in the Times this morning along protest against the apathy of the Rus sian authorities in the face of the Kischeneff horrors, and the deplorable indifference, if not actual anti-S Senitisn, displayed in every line of Minister. Von Plehve's report on the outrages, which the writers declare bristles with mis- statements. Continuing Messrs. Alex sJ,,s ,tr3s xsI I,s the outbreak, fully confirming the re- ports already cabled. They declare the outbreaks were deliberately organized by local anti-semites assisted by ill- fiammatory anti-Semite papers and fa- bles of Jewish ritual murders. Details are given to st1bstantiate all the horrf- ble incidents hitherto published The writers further asseverate that the cen- sor passed the inf1ammatory articles. The governor assured the Jewish depu- tation that there was no cause for alarm while the police, who openly sympathiz- ed with the anti-Semites either assisted the rioters or remained passive. Formal dispositions have been made accusing the police of disarming Jews who tried to defend themselves. All appeals fc the governor to call out the military were vain. and when leading Jews tried to telegraph to St. Petersburg their mes- sages were stopped. Nobody has been punished for participation in the out rages and the Jews have not been al- lowed to submit complaints to the gov ernment An official has been deputed to investigate the matter. The Jews of St Petersburg have been forbidden to fr,r Ar. London. May 18.-The Times this morning publishes from corresponds ent liberal translation of what pur- ports to be the ext of 8 confidential circular sent by Mavon Plehve, Rus.5 1 sian minister of the interior, to the goveno of Bessarabia shortly before the outbreak at Kischeneff. This cfrs cular is dated March 25, and Is heade ed: Perfectly secret.'' The translas ton is as follows:
 Tt has come to my knowledge thai in the region entrusted to you, wids disturbances are being prepared against the Jews, who chiefly exploit the local population. In view of the general disquietude, the disposition of the population of towns to seek i vent for Itself, and also in view of the uil- questionable undesirabiliy of insulting. by too severe measures, anti-goveri- mental feelings into a population which has not yet been affected by propa- ganda, your excellency will not fail to contribute to the immediate stopping of disorders which may arise by means of admonitions, without at al! having recourse, however, to the use i of arms"