The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-12
RUSSIAN SITUATION
 EXTREMELY OMINOUS
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SaneroneS and the last battle In which he, as a member of this society, participated.
 All the stories agreed that the czar's manifesto of constitution and the fes- tivities on the day that Count Witte stepped into power were made the pre- text for riots. The reception of this news in Odessa was described as fol- dy-maker of Odessa:
 "On the day of the czar's manifesto" he said, there were marchings and re- Joicings by great processions which waved red flags through the streets. These processions were composed most ly of workmen. A great party of loyal ists gathered and were addressed by a clergyman, who said: It is true that the czar has decreed liberty, freedom of the press. of speech and of conscience And he exhorted faithfulness to the czar, after which his followers marched carrying aloft pictures of the cZar. When this procession met the other parades 1t was stoned and thus the fighting began.
 During the next two days the streets of Odessa were a schlachtfeld." The candymaker used the German word for battlefield, repeating 1t bit terly several times and adding, This was what they. called decreeing liber- ty."
 Chanoch, the tinsmith. took up the story at this point, saying:
 During the first day after the man. ifasto it seemed to me to be very quiet for nearly all the, Jews remained in- doors hiding. Six weeks ago to-day I lay with several other Jews for four hours in the garret, to escape from to escape from a mob in the rooms below. It was a three story building, and those who lived there. escaped by crawling along rafters into dark holes a few inches underneath the roof.
 While we were hiding men came in after dark to escape from the streets and to tell us what happened in the other houses where the Jews were caught. A man. told me that one of these houses had been entered where perhaps 200 Jews were in hiding. The mob carried butcher knives, stone slabs. some of which were red with blood, iron bars, revolvers and clubs. Those in the house ran, in every direction, many of them Escaping, but the chl- dren ran. with. a, few older persons to the third floor. There they were caught and the babies up to five or six years old were thrown, living out of the third floor windows. ,, The older children and the adults were killed before being thrown out. A band of several hundred students and a few police arrived in time to arrest some of these murderers and after they had been placed in jail some of them were recognized by their keepers as members of the police force.
 "On Tuesday or Wednesday of that week I was in a, street which runs into the Jewish market place, when about 200 men stopped an electric street car wishing to use, II for a barricade. They tipped it over without giving the pass engers time to climb out. and think that some of the passengers were killed. Many workmen attacked the men who were upsetting this car. Some times their coats were torn off and more than once saw underneath the citizens coat the garnet of police man"
 Chanoch said that the faces of the dead in the streets were too mutilated for recognition. He said also that in suburb of Odessa Christian priest saved sixty Jewish children by placing them in his church. Chanoch, Miroc- znik and another Jew left Odessa with out difficulty on the third day of the riots. They left their wives and chill dren at villages about 100 miles from Odessa. ,.
 Josef Chajel, a Jew from Minsk, said:
 Shortly after the issuance of the czar's manifesto all political prisoners were released and on account of their penniless condition they began to rob the Jews They killed those who re- sisted them" a.
 Israel Satotzky, a Jew from the city of Kovno in Western Russia, said:
 When the constitution was announc- ed the gendarmes in Yatkover and Hanover streets took off their uniforms substituting civilian clothing and then shouted that the manifesto ordered the citizens to kill the Jews." P. Leisu, an eighteen year old Rus- sian boy from the province of Wilma, said that last September in his native village he attended & workingman S mass meeting to discuss ten hour working day. The troo~&> charged on this meeting, and he saw one student shot and killed. while several persons were wounded.
 Chechkowitz said that he left Wilma because of his membership in the so- ctety of "Sanierones," composed of men who carried arms for self protection. He said that the shooting of lawyer named Yentoff by policeman precipi- tated a fight in which the Sanierones gathered in such numbers that large body of police and troops were eum- moned to disperse them. Chechkowitz and his companions barricaded them selves in a railroad station. where they were surrounded. A body of 100 men fought in this station, he said, until a train came along, causing Hull in the fight. He says he already had two bullet holes in his hat, and as some of his companions were already wounded and few of them dead he stole aboard the train and left Russia.
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