Evening star., 1905-08-26
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
ANOTHER MASSACRE OF JEWS BY
DRUNKEN TROOPS IN POLAND.

A cabegram from Warsaw, Russian Po-
Land, last night says: Another massacre
OF Jews. marked by atrocities worthy OF
savages, has occurred in Bialistok, about
fifty miles southwest of Grodno.
Little is known outside of Russia OF this
slaughter, while even in Russia itself few
people know of its horrors.
The official report minimizes It usual,
merely stating that party of Jews at
Bialistok threw bomb which killed some
soldiers, whereupon the troops fired in self
defense. and that during the scuffie'' forty
Jews were killed and $50 wounded
But reports the World correspondent has
secureds from trustworthy eye-witnesses
draw a sangunary picture.
Blal1StOk lies near the junction or the 81.
Petersburg-Warsaw and konigsberg-Odessa
railways, and many troops are quartered
there. The town has G5,000 inhabitants,
three-quarters of them Jews.
To Teach Jews a Lesson.
Some Jewish workingmen We're arrested
there three weeks ago and treated with ex-
ceptional brutality by soldiers and police
men, whose officers threatened openly that
they would crush the Jewish population
teach the Jews a lesson"
A small gathering of Jews. possibly So
cialiStS, but not authorized by the socialist
party to act ordered that the brutal treat
ment of their arrested co-religionists be
avenged. The persons picked to do this
work threw bomb August II among some
soldiers. of whom three were killed. while
a dozen workingmen were wounded, some
fatally.
This the signal for violent out
break by the troops against all the Jews.
innocent and guilty alike. Soldiers marched
up and down Bialistok's streets, shooting
indiscriminat whomsoever was abroad.
They entered the houses, killing and rob-
= hi,,,r h.
Some incidents are so atrocious as to be
almost incredible. but there is good reason
to believe the soldiers had been made drunk
before hand "A suppositiou which alone can
explain some of the savagery.
Shot in the Back.
Most of the killed wounded We're shot
in the back. proving that the troops fired
on fleeing crowds
Women, children and old men were shot
down ruthlessly and their corpses were hor-
rbly mutilated.
The troops fendishly prevented doctors
from attending the wounded for a long
time.
A son of a wine-shop proprietor was
standing in front of his fathers tavern
when detachment Of troops came by ana
shot him, wounding him severely. HIS
father sent for surgeon, but when the lat
ter arrived the troops, who had drawn a
line around the wine-shop, would not let
him enter. i ne doctor Appeared 10 lHe cap
tain commanding, praying him for human
ity's sake, to let him attend The wounded
youth.
You rascally Jew" shouted the captain.
eff you value your own hide you'd better
clear off,
Taking this as their cue. the soldiers buff
feted the doctor and drove him away, prod
ding him with bayonets.
The tavern-keeper. who knew many Of
ficers customers, then interceded with
the captain, but Jared no better. Not until
many hours after being wounded did the
young man receive surgical attention, and
his death hastened by this long neg
lect.
"Hit His Gray Beard"
Soldiers shot down Tobiaschewitch Dobar,
seventy-two years old, jeeringly challenging
each other to hit his gray beard
A patrol of three soldiers and policeman
wantonly shot a woman of forty-one years,
who was standing in the corridor of her
home, and wounded her in the breast. y
surgeon admitted to her only after
three hours.
Khari Piekarska, a girl of twelve, was
shot before her house, and as she lay, still
alive, was slashed to pieces.
Garberg Nachmann. seventy years old,
while returning from evening prayer at the
synagogue, with two companions, was shot
in the arm.
One of his friends, an old man who served
as a soldier under Car Nicholas l. was
shot dead.
Nachmann cried for help, and two neigh
bors ran to his assistance On them the
tpsy soldiers fired, too, killing one and
wounding the other.
These only a few incidents of that
awful day al Biafistok of which the World
correspondent is Informed by indubitable
witnesses. Some of the horrible events can
not be described publicly.
Troops Do Work of Mobs.
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