The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-06
RUSSIA PUTS UP
Her DEFENSE
Skillfully and Craftily Fran
ed Account of the Kishe-
neY Massacre.

NEW YORK, June 5.-The Chris
tan Herald, in response to cable
dispatch sent to the car, asking for
an official report of the occurrences
at Kishenev, has received this reply
from Lopoukhine, the director of the
Russian police department.:
Russ1a's agricultural and laboring
population is i'll at ease living the
common life with Jewish Inhabitants
of widely developed commercial in
stinct. Hence there is constant an
tagon1sm, the material differences in
racial and religious character coming
to the verge of frenzy at the Leaf pos
Sible occasion.
'The strained relations existing be-
tween the Russians and the Jews of
Bessarabia were made worse by the
finding in an outlying village of a
murdered Christian boy. His murder
was attributed by the population to
the Jewish ritual habits. Official de-
malls of the ritual murder were not
tr1buted other murders of Christians
in the towns of Kieff and Kishenev
likewise to the Jews.
ION Easter day, in the market place
OF KiShenev, the workers while holi-
day making, saw the Jewish proprie-
tor OF a carousing machine strike
Christian woman, who fell to the
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This incident was the immediate
cause of an outburst. The workers
began to break windows and pull down
Jewish stores as a sign of protest.
The police, who always leave much to
be desired in provincial towns, failed
to make efdcacious intervention, many
thousands Of the mass of onlookers
and holiday-makers approving the
riot and hindering the policemen's ac-
tons.
After demonstrators came plumber
ers, the outbreak lasting from o'clock
in the afternoon till 10 o'clock in the
evening, and leaving nine Jewish bod
les on the place, night brought the dis
turbances to an end.
On Monday morning, the Jews,
wishing to intimidate and inf1ict pun
ishment on the Christian workers, be-
gan 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 a Christian was
seen to fall. receiving a bullet wound
This called forth the popular passion
In all it's abiect form and abomination
the Russian peasants when driven to
frenzy and excited by race and reli-
gious hatred. and under the influence
or alcohol, being worse than the
Americans, who lynch negroes.
Unfortunately. the governor of Bes-
sarab1a did not make his appearance
in person on Easter Sunday, and on
Monday he gave over the command to
military men, which he had no right
to do, as he in consequence laid the
police aside, and, on the other hand,
left the military forces without actual
guidance. Troops cannot carry out
police duties without special instruc-
tons.
TN the end, the town having been
divided into sections, with a special
military command in each, the dis
turbances ceased on Monday evening.
By this time the minister of the in
terror had ordered by wire the procla-
nation of martial law, and. an un-
precedented fact. had sent the director
OF police department to investigate as
| to the responsibilities Of the local off,
GERS. In consequence the governor,
the chief Of police. and some other Of
ficers were dismissed, many hundreds
| OF rioters were placed in prison and
hard work in the Siberian mines was
awarded to them. The minister of
| the interior has issued a circular to
| governors all over Russia, authorizing
them to make immediate use of fire.
arms in cases of anti-Jewish disturb
| ances. The Russian government is the
first to d1Sapprove of such horrid acts
| OF violence. but it cannot, in compu-
ance with the reSQuests Of a radical
and revolutionary press, give the Jews
new rights of citizenship, as this
would be sure to drive the Russian
population to new excuses against the
Jews. who are hated by the peasants
with such extraordinary force"
VIENNA, June 5.-A party of Jews
from Kishenev have arrived in a Ia
mentable condition. They said their.
only aim was to escape from Russia
with their lives, as the Jewish perse-
! cutions were not lover yet They could
have defended themselves against the
| mob, but the police would not let them.
Out of 127 persons arrested while loot
ing and numbering. declared the fugi-
tiVes. llS We're acquitted. and the re-
mainder were sentenced to short terms
| Of imprisonment