The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12
BISHINEFF HORROR.
Stories Told of 1t Are Nearly All
Verified.

London, Aug PA dispatch from
the British consul general at Odessa,
forwarding the report made by the Brit
ish vice consul at Odessa, NJ. Bosanquet.
who was sent especially to Kishineff to
obtain 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 cabled to the
Associated Press. 1t says:
The area of the disturbances COM
prised two-thirds of the town of Kish-
ineff- The murders all occurred on Mon
day, the second day of the disturbances.
They were perpetrated by bands eof
rioters in different parts of the town.
Many believe they were the work of Or
ganized companies, which fact argues
in favor of a prearranged conspiracy to
exterminate the Jews. If this belief is
not accepted the riots must be attrib-
uted to the articles in the Bessarbitz,
the anti-semitic organ in Kishineff, to
the unfounded report of the Jewish
murder of a Christian priest to the wine
drunk early on Monday. and to the be-
lief which seems to have grown with the
continued inaction of the authorities,
that the latter wished the Jews to be
massacred or had even ordered it. APP
parently, a feeling existed among the
lower classes that the Jews ought not
to be in a majority in Kishineff.
1.-The local authorities took no effective
steps to stop the riots. The soldiers
We're passive if not sympathetic spec
tators. The police contented themselves
with the arrest of minor criminals until
four o'clock in the afternoon, when the
governor who remained at home, tele-
phoning orders which were disregarded,
a length ventured to sign the necessary
order for the troops to be employed. The
case 1 heard of in which the latter used
their weapons was when they bayoneted
a Christian boy, who was pursuing a
Jew with stones. This boy was the
only Christian killed during the disturb
ances. If reSolute action had been taken
by the authorities I believe the riots
would have been checked at an early
stage"
Mr.. Bosenquet places the Jewish VIC
Tins at Al killed and 303 wounded, while
among the Christians one was killed and
IS wounded. Official inquiries, he says,
show that three women were violated
but this may well represent 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 an assault of a girl
II years old and of others aged 10, but
this was only hearsay. Mutilation and
deliberate torture of the victims, he says,
does not seem to have been practfced-
Though there were undoubtedly great
barbarities, he only knows of one case or
mutilation, when a mans eye was put
out with a nail. He heard stories OF
mutilation after death and of child
Delng torn llInD from umD, out ne COu-
siders the latter story to be improbable
considering that only two little children
appear to have persisted.
Mr.. Bosanquet pays tribute toA
Prince Urusoff, the new governor of
Bessara bia who, he says. helped him
with every means within his power.
ION the arrival of the new governor,
who is doing all he can to gain the con-
fidence of the Jewish population" adds
the vice consul, matters began to i'm
prove and the commercial life of the
town was resumed. A new conner. Wis
itfng 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 prosperitv
though they have not yet entirely re-
covered. The Jews place their losses at
two million roubles but this figure is
probably an exaggeration.
About $50 rioters were arrested and
30s were punished on minor charges
while 216 were acquitted. Three hum
bred and sixty rioters will be tried at
Tiraspol in October, of which number
100 are charged with murder in addi-
ton to other crimes. If thev are found
guilty they viii be sentenced TO nenal
servitude on the island of Shakalin.p
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We've got our faults. tits true. but what
One of US VIII agree
That we the grieyous faults have cot
That all our neighbors seer
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