The sun., 1906-02-05
TIE MASSACRES AT ODESSA.
strIJEf>GS or THE JEWS AT
J;iJ HiNJs or NOBS.
vourn and Babies Thrown From Windows
People Drained WIN Clubs or Sla'lgh.
,o-rI uth Long kui,rs Fidelity Of
,,r lew, 90 I.cIr fal,!,- Misery.

e. inc. tie Black Sea reflected the smile,
,nu,b paradcd with flags and trumpets,
ol nrpir,,Jr, embraced in tears, and
',,,n.n. a, ON a Russian Easter day, felt
h,,rt # they we're not kissed, All because
the car had issued manifesto and free
rnn had ri.en from the dead. The long
.,r,eee vas surely near its end, and those
,rbo mad fallen for the cause had not died
in vain
Two DAYS later they buried freedom, and
che Government ia still busy stamping
down the bloody clay to lay her ghost
Tbsre il no talk Of manfestoes and con-
oessions now,
Every promise has been falsified, every
hona has been deceived. No meetings
e,ccpt Of loyal Hooigans may be held.
IA nanars except the Government organ
n, violen @ may appear Even the organ
~ ,le Con-'itu;i alists-a party almost
,oo moderate to exist--has been suddenly
suppressed.
Tho friends Of liberty choke the prisons.
As ,,,,n zoe. down the streets one sees their
white faces peerirg between the bars. The
s,acnat!on of tyranny Is broken only by an
occasional murder of some police officer
conspicuous for brutality. or by bomb
such A. wa- thrown last week into the
CATS Liebmann. on the central square.
y, schools have been open since October.
Tho university ia likely to remain closed
Until August
Tre' of hogan It when he urged the Gov
ernor, Noidhart, TO allow a demonstration
Of the lovali-t Black Hundred on NoNem-
ber f. For three days the town lay at the
mercy Of la " and order and in the cemetery
VOL rnrv -ce the ublong Of loose earth
where $50 bodies we're flung into common
gray'.
TrcDoT and Ncidhart are out of Office
for tic moment but the memorials of their
work remain Even in the middle OF the
town shops that were richest still have
Their shutters up, their glass is broken to
piece, and their goods are gone. And In
the poor northern and northwest districts
whole rows Of houses staad deSolate.
The marks of bullets are thick on the
wal,-. The gaps where windows were
are covered with boarding. In many cases
the roof, have been broken in or burned
away, and even on the main streets you are
shown the windows, three stories high,
from which babies and girls and women
were tllEIlttl upon llle Slolly pd'ciHcitS.
1t was in the miserable lanes of this north
west district that the plunderlng began
"a district so wretchsd that my top
boots kept sticking in the filthy slush OF
the streets. and the worst slum off Com
meroial road would have seemed guar
dians' paradise in comparison. But pass
ing through this quarter l crossed a deep
watercourse and came out upon the kind
of land which passes for country at the back
Of Odessa.
1t is part of the wide steppe which stretches
for mile on mile around the basin of the
pneister and far away into Bessarabia--
an uninterrupted plain like the Orange
River veldt, but now streaked with melting
snow. On the edge of this -teppe stands
a sen-detachcd town. OF large village,
called Slobodka Romanovka, noted for
its madhouse and its hospital.
Providence itself must have placed these
buildings there, for nowhere else could
they have been more wanted. Aud indeed
It was the Chosen People of Providence
who wanted them most. | believe the
village numbers about 2s,oO0 souls, and
there i hardly house which does not still
show the marks Of the wrecking and MUIR
der.
Clubs v,re the weapons chiefly used by
the champions Of Christ and TIE Gar
such clubs the Turks used in Constanti-
nope Ehen they Drained the Arnenians
in the aeno of tho Prophet and the Sultan.
But long butchers knives We're found even
better TOR k.ling children. and where there
waS any re. stance nothing came in more
hseIu than a receiver al five yards range.
In thti three DAYS massacre nearly all
who suffered were Jews. Out Of a popu-
lAtlon of about 6c0OC0 in Odessa the Jews
ara estimated a. something between 200 COO
and 3OJOUr 80 that there was plenty of
game for the Christian -portsmen. The
JeD ol ode i-,, arc said by their Christian
nei5N5nr- to la Of ii particularly unplea SAINT
type I cannot say for ccrrain whether
that is 80; I only know they have par
tcu,aryunpe SAINT time. And yet unpleas-
eht " not, they are an amazing people.
Their tAGi~lldn nelChbors chalk cross
on their shutters In dangerous times or
sti1i w plaster ~ inf over the door. Most
reorlc n | wrote from Moscow, now wear
Zig crosses round their necks, so that when
tbs present Governments supporters come
round cutting threats they may have some
chance Ci salvation. No Jew will do any
such ding not for life itself will he do it.
F"op.s sIv he could not conceal himself
his lock his dwelling, his pa ssport Ill betray
him. hat Is partly true. though If l were
aJow would cover my house with crosses
IN the hope Of "a aylng any one / cared for
IRON Icing flung out Of top window.
But even II such hope were vain. that is
no reason why a Jew should cover his
outside shutters and tint them with Hebrew
hs ripti0ns or information a bout his kosher
goods
Yet on ruin after ruin | have seen these
ms'ry'lons written, and what is more
reEnarkalIe | have seen the surviving
owners r"painting these inscriptions as
theY patched UP the wrecka ge Of their
houses. Whether chosen or not it is GER
alniy peculiar people.
saw one old typo of wretched Israel
VINO had been counted a prosperous man,
out had lost family, ducats and all. When
"e days of mourning were over he bor-
fo"ea rev cigarettes and sat down on
,he pavement outside his former home.
Ne5t week ba had more cigarettes to sell
ana now in fcw days he hopes to open a
,ooacco shop where before he sold clothing.
iaouot II all the Christians in Russia backed
ss th"y ara by all the power of the army,
ponce and Orthodox Church, can extermi-