The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
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prspared tho way for Disturbances, lnas.
much a. the Catholics, for thu fTst tlms
slncs Ises, werc able 10 or eanlSe under tho
Care edo, granting religious tolerance.
The members of the Ortbodoa Church wers
also organized. and religious pal n lee nship
made q clash inevitable.
Agents employed by the police. cay the
correspondence. started the bomb throw
Ing and dischargina Of pvolvers. Their
accompllces In the crowd started cries
against tho Jews. Tho Hebrews immedi-
ately blaNed away among the indignant
crowd. and the massacre began. The
correspondents declare that the result
was ~ sanguinary a. thoss Of the worst
outragcs In the past.
Most Of the accounts place the killed
and wounded at 100. One places the nun
Der at 1000.
ST. PETERSBURG, June i7.-Deputy Vina-
YER received q telegram from Bielostok
to-day saying that the town was surrounded
by troops. Entrance Is forbidden. The
soldiers volleyed upon the inhabitants this
morning.
BIKLosToK, June iT.-More troops, IN
Guiding q battery Of artillery, arrived here
to-day. Quiet was restored this evening.
Numbers Of Jews, who are fleeing from the
city, we're escorted by soldiers to the rail-
way station. The refugees nave lost all
their property and money, and all Of them
are hungry.
There was further rioting Saturday
night and this morning.
LONDON, June l7.-Lucien Wolf, a we'll
known journalist and vice-president OF the
Jewish Historical Society Of England, has
received a telegram signed by NJ. Vinaver
and four other Jewish members Of the
Russian Duma stating:
THE outbreak at Bielostok is clearly the
beginning Of an organized massacre similar
to the bloody October days. Only energetic
Intervention can prevent a terrible catas-
trophe. The peril is imminent. Appeal to
all influences to help US"
The fact that the telegram, which is
dated to-day, was despatched by way Of
Helsingfors, Finland, is regarded as an in
dication that the senders feared the results
of sending such information from st Peters,
burg.
LONDON, June 1s.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Tribune says that the
Governor-Genera of Grodno has tele-
graphed saying that the first official account
of the Bielostok affair was mendacious in
stating that the Jews first attacked a pro-
oession. The procession was not attacked
at all,
The correspondent ays he learns hat a
local official Of the name of Stukalich was
responsible for the assertion that Jews
started the trouble.
The chief Of police at Bielostok. report
ing Sunday evening, said the trouble was
ended, but added that another massacre
Ia threatened at Grodno,
The dispatches from Russia continue to
be of the ugliest import. They bring
stories Of restitution, lawlessness, muntiy,
riot, outrage and anticipated massacre of
Jews. Another general railway strike
seems to be impending. A st. Petersburg
correspondent, dealing with the evidences
Of a coming revolution, says it Is daily
more apparent that the real fight will take
place independent Of the Duma.
The Constitutional Democrats are being
superseded by the Marats and Dantons of
Russia, whose fiery speeches opening up
yistas Of land and loot are more e~nticing
than the duller programme Of the moderates.
Every symptom of Russia's present condi-
ton could be paralleled from the early
days Of the French Re volution, only in
Russia the war cry OF Zemlya i volya Qand
and liberty takes the place Of 'Liberte,
EEalite ct Fraternite.' The Government
must decide at once whether 1t will resign.
II it does not soon a great fight will begin.
The st.. Petersburg correspondent of the
Times, describing the situation as one Of
anarchy everywhere, and the outlook as
we'll nigh desperate, says there Is only one
means left Of preventing a catastrophe,
only one chance Of bringing the Govern
mept to listen to reason. That is the fear
OF a financial crisis. The newspapers say
that the Government is already anxious to
replenish its Golfers. The last loan was
negotiated on the understanding that 1t
would not be directed against the Duma.
Foreign bankers must o realize that
they we're deceived, and they may be ex-
pected to act accordingly. This is already
indicated by the fall in Russian bonds
abroad, and the bourses in st. Petersburg
and Moscow are in a state bordering on
panic. The brokers talk Of sending a col
leotive memorial to the throne pointing
out the certainty Of financial disaster unless
the Government yields to the Duma.
The correspondent declares that the
Bielostok massacre far eclipses In horror
and dastardly reconciliation all previous
outrages. 1t is now known and officially
admitted that it was planned two weeks
beforehand. It Is also officially admitted
that the telegram alleging that Jews had
attached a procession n killed priests and
children was a baseless fabrication. 1t
has been asoertained that several regiments
quartered at Bielostok were used, not to
check the massacre, which consequently
lasted all Of three days, but to fire indis-
criminately into Jewish houses, thus com
pleting the ruin and bloodshed.
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