Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-21
EpoR1s OF HORROR ARE INCOMPLETE
Censor Refuses to Permit Correspondent to
Send Full Account.
RENEWAL OF CONFLICT NOT EXPECTED
Great outory Raised Will Prevent Another
Anti-semitio Outbreak.
POLICE ASSISTED RIOTERS TO KIu lEws
Fer seventy-Two HOnrs OrEie Con-
tiRues and Thsn omcers Act
on Orders frqm Their
supeYioFs.


dRoDHo. Russia, June 2.-Ovtng to the
refusal Of the censor at BiRlystok to per-
NIT the free telegraphing Of the result of
the investigation by the Associated Press
correspondent OF the massacre OF Jews
there the correspondent came here. The
ant-Jewish rioting at Bislystok is now
ended. Troops are in full control and in
view Of the outcry raised it is certain that
the authorities will not permit a renewal
or the horrors recently witnessed at Bialy
stok.
The entire region is greatly excited owing
10 the fear that the Bialystok massacre
was only the signal for a general attack on
the Jews throughout the pale and In Po-
land. but " any such conspiracy existed it
is too late TO carry out the plans, as the
most imperative orders TO prevent further
outbreaks have been issued TO the gov
srnors and governor general OF st. Peters
burg.
When the correspondent arrived at Bialy-
stok Sunday morning the worst was already
over but on all sides there was revolving
evidence OF savage bestilality on the part
OF the blood-drunken mobs which sacked
and burned the Jewish houses. shops and
stores.
For seveaty-two hours. with a slight
abatement during the day time the mad
orgie OF blood and pillags went un-
checked. The inhumanity displayed would
have done credit to the Mongol hordeS OF
Genghls Khan In his conquests OF China
and Central Asia early in the thirteenth
century. At first police and troops urged
on the mob. but finally. when dismsyed by
the bloody deeds accomplished, they reluo-
family sought TO obey the orders OF their
superiors to put end to the work of the
rApacious bands Of roughs who were 10 far
beyond control OF the local forces that regi-
ment after regiment had TO be thrown into
the city before order could be restored.
During the r4otfng the Jews were hunted
down by ferocious pursuers. who, In the
majority OF cases, were not content with
killing more Victims, but tore them to
pieces like wild animals. And while this
wa in progress the troops either stood idly
by or. ~ wHs more frequently the case,
fiFed into the houses and shops where Jews
were concealed. under the pretext that they
believed them 70 BE- revolutonists. but
really to make way for the murderers and
piunderers who followed in the soldiers
wake.
While it Is impossible to give the exact
figures the visits OF the correspondent to
the hospitals and cemeteries enables him
10 approximate the killed at 100 Jews and
twenty Christians and the wounded AZ $50
Jews and seven Christians.
origin I'm Doubt.
The question OF the origin Of the mAssa-
ere was carefully investigated. Although
many OF the Jews denied that q bomb was
thrown at the Corpus Christi procession
Thursday, the fact that bomb was thrown
was established beyond a doubt, but the
question OF who threw the bomb remains
unsettled. The accounts OF impartial wit
neasee, however demonstrate that an in
cutting cry enraged the Jews, who attacked
the religious procession. Then from one end
Of the city to the other the police spread
the report OF the attack, thus flaming the
religious fanaticism OF the Christians and
setting loose the worst elements upon the
Jews. on whom the crowds watching the
procession had already turned. The Jews
at hrst fought with revolvers and bombs
and with their weapons the majority of the
Christian victims were killed. But the
Jews we're soon overwhelmed and ned for
shelter like rabbits to warrens, 10 cellars
or attics. The soldiers watched this chase
and butchery, sometimes laughing with in
difference, but never failing 10 fire into
houses where Jews, sometimes TO the num-
Der OF 100. were making stand against
their assailants. The soldiers said the Jews
were revolutiouists and that was their ex-
euse for nring on them. The authorities
who wanted to do something to stop the
massacre were, with the police and troops
IA open sympathy with the mob, utterly
powerless
Although II IL freely charged that the
higher authorities OF Bialystok deliberately
organised the massacre. or, IL this was not
the ease, that II was carried out under or
AArs from st. Petersburg. there is no evi-
asnee to support either charge
Msmber OF Duma Talks.
NJ schepkin OF Odessa. member of the
commission said: we wished especially
70 bring home the responsibility to the
Eoyernment II the uhassacre was organized
In st. Petersburg. But our conclusions are
that IL was not planned in st. Petersburg
Neither do We hnd proof that Chief OF Po-
ilee sherometieff OF Bialystok was a party
70 the plot. However, the responsibility
OF his eubordinates together with that OF
the rank and file OF the police and some
OF the military ofncers, who fondly imagine
that the odious system OF Won PhIeve and
rrspon have not ended, is clearly proven
I'VE have failed 70 clear up whether q
policeman or an anarchist threw the bomb
our Investigations only demonstrate thai
the real cause OF this and similar tragedie,
il the position OF the Jews. which make.
the Ignorant Russians consider them 70 b,
parlahs, outside the protection Of the law
The Jews everyShsresare not organising
societies for self-defense. and as soon q,
they show the slightest resistance TO perse
eution they will he treated by the troops
and ignorant populacs as revolutionists fo
whom a simple death is too good Psrlia
ment must insist on the punishment Of tn,
guilty"
Prepared In Advance.
A proof OF the charge that the masSAer,
was prepared IN advance. the Jews CLAIM
that the keepers OF the government win
shops received notice the day before tn
outbreAk 10 remove their cash from an
shops 70 safer plsees-
me tales Of atrocities committed ar
innumerable, and while some Of them ma,
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