The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-02
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
INvEsTIGATIoN IS PROCEEDING AT
 G0MfzL. RUssfA.
coverumeut Introduces Evidence that the Christians were Provoked and
 that the Jews Had Estab-
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H
 Gomel. Rrssfa. Nov. l.-The trial oi the persons charged with being re- snonsibIe for the anti-Jewish riots hero in september. 1903. is proceeding slow lv and with open doors and Is attract inx immense interest.
 There are eleven defendants. and sixty-nine other persons who are un- der the same charge are being held un- der hail. Nine hundred and seventy five of the 1,101 witnesses are present.
 The governments witnesses are at- tempting to prove that the disorders of September Il, 1sca. were in the na- ture of ssiti- Christian riots and not of
 an anti Jewish character. It Is claim
 ed that the first riot was organized
 by Jews to take vengeance for the
 Kishineff affair while the rioting two
 days after was a retaliation upon the
 Jews.
 The government produced evidence
 that the Jews were thoroughly organ
 ized and armed end he1 prearranged signals, regular leaders. adopted pro- yocative towards tho Christians and acted overbearinely. insulting peasants in the streets and Jostling them off the sidewalks.
 The affair of September Ii, 1t Is added, grew cut of triDing quarred between a Christian forester and a Jewess over the purchase of herring The Jewess spat in the io-esters face. a fight followed and Jews ran up and belab6red the forester. Some Chris tians from the bazaar hurried to the rescue of the forester, the free fight then became general. the Jewish sig nal was given and the whole Jewish population assembled. attacking the Christians regardless of sex or age. a girl being dragged along the road by her hair. The peasants abandoned their goods in the bazaar and fled. One of them was stabbed in the neck and killed. The police and 8 lieuten- ant and four soldiers tried to restore order, but stones were showered upon them and they were fired at from win- dows of neighboring houses, the Jews shouting, We are going to be avenged. this is not Kishinen."
 The police and soldiers finally es- capped owing to the Interpretation of rabbi. Two days later some rail- road workmen who had announced that they intended to take vengeance on the Jews came into the town at noon. The police had been warned and a company of soldiers was brought in and halted the workmen at the zridge. The Jews assembled behind the soldiers, the two anthematizing each other finally hulring stones. Ap- peals of the police chief to the rioters to disperse were in vain. At last a police was struck by a brickbat and the workmen shouting. The Jews have killed policeman" surged across
 Then there were revolver shots from the ews' whereupon the captain com manding the soldiers placed his com pany between the opposing forces and the workmen finally were dispersed in the direction of the suburbs. But the Jews would not even listen to a rabbi who was present and the soldiers fin- ally charged them with bayonets and access to the wealthy Jews quarters was closed.
 The total result of the rioting was three non-commissioned officers, two soldiers, two Jews and two Christians killed and four Christians and four Jews wounded. A number of police men were also killed or wounded. About twenty-five houses and shops of Jews were pillaged.
 The rioting continued all the after noon and only ceased at nightfall.