Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
RUSSIAN POLICE REPLIES
Gives New Version Of the Slaughter
in Kishlneff
PROMISES PUNISHMENT Of OFFENDERS
Insists that jews Brought About Sec
ond Attack by Ignorant Peasants
and Admits LEGAL Omcers
Were DercIict.

NEW YORK, June 5-The Christian
Herald In response to a cabiegram sent
to the car, asking for an official report Of
the occurrences at ISishineff, has received
reply froms the director of the Russian
police department., JThe reply follows:
ST. ,PETERSBU RG. June 4.--The Chris
tian Herald, New York. Russia's agricul-
tural and lahOring population is i'll at ease,
living the common life with Jewish inhabi-
terests, hence there is constant antagonism,
the material difference is racial and relig-
frenzy at the least 'paasibie occasion
The straiped relations existing between
the Russians and Jews of Bessarabia were
outlying village a murdered Christian boy.
Three murders were attributed by the
population TO the Jewish ritual habits. Oth-
given credit by the & peasants. who at
tributed other murders of Christians in the
towns of kieff and ISishineff, likewise to the
on Easter day iri the market place of
Kishineff, the, workers, while holiday MAX
tian who .fell to The ground letting so of
an infant baby This Incident was the i'm
mediate cause of an nutburst; The workers
began breaking windows and pulling down
Jewish stores as sign of protest Ihe
police failed TO make efficient intervention;
many thousands OF the mass approved their
action. hindering the police's actions. After
the demonstration came piundererS, the OUT
break lasting from o'clock in the atter,,
noon until 10 O'Clock in the evening and
leaving nine Jewish bodies In the place.
Night brought the disturbance to an emo.
Christian s0 outbteak in Iettfns loose the pop
ular passions with the strength OF natural
forces is that on, Monday morning tne
ishment on the Christians. came TO the
market places. some with sticks and some
With b The tss JsT7 n TIE the 2 rs
encounters and a Christian was seen to
fall, receiving bullet wound. ', .e.
s Worse Than s4AmericRns.
This called forth the popular passion in
all its abject form and the Russian peas
ants when driven to frenzy and excited by
race and religious hatred, and Under the
influence of alcohol being. worse than the
Unfortunately, the governor of Bessarabia
did not make his appearance. In person on
xsr Easter The sG6GSg snf 70 9 sry men % which
he mad no right to do as he, In conse-
quence, laid the pcliee aside, and, on the
other hand, left the military forces with
out actual guidance. Troops can take towns
| by assault, but cannot carry police dutles
/ In the end. the town having been divided
into districts with a special military com
mand in each, the disturbances ceased on
| Monday evening. BY this time the minister
of the interior had ordered by wire the
proclamation of martial law. and ian un-
he police department to Investigate as to
| the responsibility of the local officials In
consequence, the chief or police ana some
| other officials were dismissed outright,
hard work in the siberian mines awaits
| them. The minister Of interior has issued
a circular 10 governors all over Russia au-
| thorizing them to make use OF firearms In
| protection of the JeWs,@.-The Russian gov
| ernment is the first TO disapprove of such
horrid acts of violence, but 1t cannot, In
compliance with the request of radical
rights of ciuzenship as this would be sure
| to drive the Russian populations TO new ex-
| cesses against the, Jews. who are hated by
the peasants with such t9rce
Director Sf ,foiice pepaIFttment.
Governor Could Not Fire.
LONDON, June 6s4-phe Times, from It's
Russian correspondent (the Times St.
Petersburg correspondent was expelled
from Russia last weels), ascertsins that the
statement is accurate that General Won
Raabe, governor general of Kishlneff. tele-
graphed to Minister Won Plehve three times
for permission to forcibiy suppress the
anti-Jewish riots at, Kishineff before he
received an answer, (which tends to show, +"
says the Times, 'in spite Of offlcial denials,
that General Won Raabe was forbidden to
use fire arms against the anti-Semites.
Minister Won Plehve is so gravely dis
pleased at the criticisms in the French
papers OF Russia's policy I'm Finland and at
Kishineff that a special Russian agent, re-
siding in Paris, has been instructed to
promote a counter propaganda"
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