The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-06
TELLS OF THE
 MASSACRE Race Hatred Cause Of
 Trouble. JEWS PARTLY TO BLAME View of the Matter Taken by Russian Government. Director of Police Department Writes to The Christian Herald the ofi- cial Side of Bessarabia
 outrages.

New York, June 6.-The Christian Her. ald. in response to a cable dispatch sent to the Czar asking for off1cial report oi the occurrences at Kshineff has received Q reply from the director of the Russian police department. The reply follows: The Christian Herald. New York:
 Russia's agricultural and laboring pop. ulation is i'll at ease. living the common life with Jewish inhabitants of widely de- veloped commercial instinct; hence there Is constant antagonism. the material diff ference in racial and religious character coming to the verge of frenzy at the least possible occasion.
 The strained relations existing between the Russians and the Jews of Bessarabia were made worse by the finding in an out lying village of a murdered Christian boy. His murder was attributed by the population to the Jewish ritual habits. Official denials of the ritual murder were not given credit by the peasants who at tributed other murders of Christians in the towns of Kieff and Kishineff likewise to ithe Jews.
 Riots on Easter Day.
 On Easter Day, in the market place of 1Nl5LlutII, Ii6 WOI hcIS WItllC AOlludJ man ing, saw the Jewish proprietor of a ca- rousing place strike a Christian woman who fell to the ground. letting go her baby. This incident was the immediate cause of an outburst. The workers be- gan to break windows and pull down Jewish stores as 8 sign Of protest. The police, who always leave much to be de- sired in provincial towns. failed to make efflcacious intervention. many thousands 1a zA makers approving the riet and hindering the policemens actions.
 After demonstrators came plunderers. the outbreak lasting from o'clock in the afternooh until 10, o'clock in the evening and leaving nine Jewish bodies. Night brought the disturbance to an end.
 What goes far to prove the momentous character of the outbreak in letting loose the populations passions with the strength of natural forces is that on Monday morning, the Jews, wishing to intimidate and infiict punishment on the Christian workers. began assembling on the market place in groups, armed with sticks and other weapons. The Jews, being the more numerous, had the best of it in the first encounters and Chris tian was seen to fall, receiving bullet wound This called forth the popular passion in all it's abject form and abomi- nation. the Russian peasants, when driven to frenzy and excited by race and religious hatred, and under the influence of alchohol, being worse than the Am2ri- cans who lynch negroes.
 Governor at Fault.
 Unfortunately, the Governor of Bessa- rabia did not make his appearance in Ier- son on Easter Sunday and on Monday he gave over the command to military bod ixht Q in consequence, laid the police aside and, on the other hand left the military forces without actual guidance. Troops can take towns by assault, but cannot carry out police duties without special instruc- tions.
 In the end the town having been divided into districts with a special military com mahd In each, the disturbance ceased on Monday evening. By this time the Min ister of the Interior had ordered by wire the proclamation of martial law and an fact, had sent the director of the police department to investigate as to responsibilities of the local of11cers In consequence the Governor, the chief of the police and some other ofncers were dismissed, many hundreds of rioters were nlaced in prison and hard work In the Siberian mines was awarded to them The Minister of Interior had issued a circular to Governors all over Russia au- thorizing them to make immediate use of fire arms In cases of anti-Jewish dis turbances. The Russian Government is the first to disapprove of such horrible acts of violence, but 1t cannot. in com pHance with the requests of radical and revolutionary press. give the Jews rights of citizenship, as this would be sure to drive the Russian population to new ex- cesses against he Jews who are hated by peasants with such extraordinary force.
 Wv. Lopoukhine,