New-York tribune., 1905-11-30
AID FOR VICTIMS ONLY.
NO RELIEF FOR RIOTERS.
Statement By Head of Jescish Com
mittee an st. Petersburg.

in charge Of the relief work among the massacre
victims in Russia Will consider victims besloea
the Jews, only such persons as suffered Win 'he
latter in their defence.
Those who were responsible for the riots and
suffered in consequence viii receive no heip % .,
sympathy. This plan has met with the aPPFO'a4
of the Minister Of the Interior
This statement is made in a letter by Baron HOT
aoe C-tfnzburs head the relief committee IN ST
Petersburg. TO Sir Samuel Montagu IN Lonoon' a
copy OF which was received yesterday oy Jacoo n
Schih.
Baron Gunzburg also says that the Gar ma mas
authorized him 70 form a committee TO receive and
distribute funds
The baron says in his letter:
t4is aiesty the Emperor having authorized me
TO form central committee TO receive ana sSs Gus
tribute funds for the relief of the tafnnleS suItel-
oommittee has been formed of NJ. R A; Kanenky
(who is the head Of the Bsnque de Az2a D9 9nd
Haisberg IaIl Jhree lawyers and a Worschawsky
we nave added the name of my son David,
The committee meets every two GAYS; ne @ nee1s
are great Bad accumulates and the money
disappears quickly. ,..~.,-6. =. he pri+tsn
1na5esty has transmitted to me for the committee
floooo an equal amount being 70 10 te t
relief committee requesting me to @ have 1nese 1Tli
tees and avoid to employ the British consuls for
await the f15.ooo Of which you have advised me,
and which forms part of the American suoscriD-
We can consider IS victims only such persons
who have suffered with the Jews and @ Lor mem mem
VIII not be entitled TO any sympathy whatsoever
The aren't of the Minister Of the Interior NJ
Dournovo has confirmed TO me that what you nave
tend i1 nerso5sv 10 the distribution by committees
in the provinces. and he has repeated that he is
who have suffered, which shall give strict at
Again and again thanks for all Eou have done for
the relief Of he unfortuna6e suIeTeTI aT T5'
The Odessa Zionist Central Committee has sent
20 the Jewish Morning Journal, of this city, its
Arst offciaI statement of the outrages committed
in Odessa in which It IS announced that all zion-
lists viii assume strict mourning until December %
The statement of the Zionists says:
Again a destruction, again a massacre. again a
riot. New calamities. new orphans. new WIDOWS.
new manned ana n}Ifisteqi n9w fI be
still hear that whistle and savage yen of the Rus
Our brethren the sacred victims have just been
buried. The wounds are yet too fresh TO ena bic US
/ TO compose clear account OF wnaI ,hapPenea 70
Friday In the European cultured city OF Odessa
[irs s Rygsss = g T nonIation of odessa how coldIy
and often how nnurderously they behaved In those
This is not the time TO ask where were in fl these @
Organized and stin unorganized Russian working
men who at their meetings. call US brothers.
R5aa s IS I3beras nf s ouT city doHma all our nom
Jewish friends Of yesterday. IN these four days OF
This is not the time to bring forward all the facts
s91gbere3 s19 how many thousands free Russian ct
zens did not admit in their houses 10 protect US
This is not The time to protest with our whole
@ @ assa asSnsi 6cs Tesae oI Tead gbbnate
how basely he paraIXzed. noraiIy any the jewish na-
All these sad facts we leave for the time when our
sbat1ereG nerves viii again resume their normal
functions. Then We may be able to pass Judgment
fering only only one fact which nobody can deny
All QUE pretended friends Of yesterday left US: no
help support, mercy from anybody except the
on. the fingers Of one hand
tionalistic young men who sacrificed themselves for
Fheir unfortunate brethren. we would have eXpe-
Inquisition and Of the slaughters in the times Of
No constitution no political liberty can heal this
wounds These means could help II we had 70 90
prove that 90 per of entire Russian popula-
non. regardless Of what class or what party they
belong to, are more or less anti Semitic.
When one part does not itself slaughter ana
At the spectacle as if it were an opera performed in
10 matter how many barricades we should erect
no matter how many sacrifices the heroic jewish
freedom, when it comes to the first Jewish mis-
fortune at the first outbreak of an ant-Jewish
the help Of the non-Jew. This is a very sad truth
All theories all 1ne phrases. all talk Of liberty
Iail against this sctuaty The facts Of life speak
ifor thenselves-four days and four nights the
slaughter lasted in Odessa, and no help arrived
We Zionists have decided to assume strict mourn
ing until Hanukkah December 23l and call upon
~ l. 9,
from festivals, marriages and other celebra tons
Until that date.
ODESSA ZIONIST CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Announcement was made yesterday that the
principal meeting in this city next Monday which
has been set aside day Of mourning by the
New-York Board Of Jewish Ministers and the
T-non OF Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the
United States and Canada will be held at Temple
iEmanu-EI. The speakers will be Oscar S. Straus.
Louis Marshall. the Rev. DR.. Joseph SiIverman
the Rev. Dr.. F. de sola Mendes. the Rev. DR.. NJ
u Harris and the Rev. DR. Rudolph Grossman.
The general order of exercises will be the same
ri each meeting. and will open with Afaafiu or
evening service. followed by Psalms readings from
the Lamentations of jeremiah, prayer for the
repose Of the souls OF the dead, prayer of praise
r hymn of edoration and the Kaddish, in memory
OF the dead in which all will participate.
One thousand copies Of appeal have been sent
out to ministers Of Christian faiths, in ew-York
City and Brooklyn. by Leopold Cohn. superin-
tendeut OF the Villa msb burg and Brownsville Mis-
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Cohn, IN his appeal, asks that a special COL
lection be taken in the churches to-day or next
elroay for the Jews IN Russia
The additional contributions TO the national re-
the total $40, ,54S II.
Among the contributions were:
Boston 5000 90
Lancaster Penn $500 90
Towns OF Fl ISis Ventura Uxnard. Ca... 1000 90
Goversville. N 90
Congrsgatonal Church OF st aiatthe........ $40 S.
tIsstonia- n 90
JeTtdiGn Miss tsecond collecon) 800 90
Robert A Van $50 90
Wsingford Conn. 200 90
Presbyterian Church Plsinheld y. 81
Downing Clark 100 %