Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-21
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
ARE NOW ENDED
So States Correspondent of the
Associated Press.
WHO WIRES NEWS FROM eRoDNo
Correspondent Says the Inhumanity
Displayed in Riots Would Have Done
Credit to MongoI Hordes of Gnhls
Khan In His Conquest of China.

Displayed in Riots Would Have Done
Credit to Moneol Hordes of Gnhis
Khan In His Conquest of China.
Grodno, June 20.-Owing to the re-
. fusal of the censor at Bialystok to
permit the free telegraphing of the
result of the investigation by the AS
sociated Press of the massacre OF the
Jews there, its correspondent came
here. The anti-Jewish rioting at Bal
lystok is new ended. The troops
are in full control and in view Of the
outcry raised, it is certain that the au-
thorities will not permit a renewal OF
the horrors recently witnessed at Bia-
lystok.
This region is greatly excited ow-
ing to fears that the Bialystok mas
sacre was only the signal for a gener-
al attack on the Jews throughout the
conspiracy existed it is too late to car
ry out the plans as the most imper-
ative orders to prevent further out
breaks have been issued to the gov
ernor-generals from st. Petersburg.
! When the correspondent arrived at
Bialystok Sunday morning, the worst
was already over, but on all sides
there was revolving evidence of saw
age beastiality on the part of the
blood-drunken mobs, which sacked
and burned the Jewish houses, shops
and stores. For Y hours, with
slight abatement during the day time,
the mad orgy of blood and pillage
went on unchecked The inhuman-
ity displayed would have done credit
to the Mongol hordes of Genhis Khan
in his conQuests of China and cen
tral Asia early in the thirteenth CEN
tury.
At first the police and troops urged
on the mob, but finally, when dis
mayed by the bloody deeds accom-
plished, they reluctantly sought to
obey the orders of their superiors to
put an end to the work of the bands
of roughs, who were so far beyond
control of the local forces that 'regi-
ment after regiment had to be thrown
into the city before order could be re-
stored.
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ferocious pursuers,
who, in the majority of cases, were
not content with killing their victims,
but tore them to pieces like wild ami
mails. And while this was in prog
ress, the troops either stood idly by,
or, as more frequently the case, fired
into the houses and shops where Jews
were concealed under the pretext that
they believed them to be revolution
lists, but really to make way for the
murderers and plunderous. who fol-
lowed in the soldiers wake.
While it is impossible to give the
exact figures the visits of the CORE
spondent to the hospitals and GENE
teries enables him to approximate the
killed at 100 Jews and 20 Christians,
and the wounded at $50 Jews and
Christians.
The question of the origin of the
massacre was carefully Investigated.
Although many of the Jews denied
that bomb was thrown at the Cor
pus Christi procession Thursday, the
fact that a bomb was thrown is estab-
lished beyond doubt, but the ques-
ton of who threw the bomb remains
unsettled.
The accounts of Impartial witnesses,
however, demonstrate that an insult
ing cry enraged the Jews, who at
from one end of the city to the other
the police spread the report of the
attack, thus tanning the religious IA
naticism of the Christians and setting
loose the wrost elements on the Jews,
on whom the crowds watching the
procession had already turned.
The Jews at first fought with revol-
vers and bombs, and with these weap-
ons the majority of the Christian vic
Tins were killed. But the Jews were
soon overwhelmed, and fed for shell
ter, like rabbits to warrens, into eel
lars or attics.
The soldiers, who led this chase,
and butchery, sometimes laughing
with Indifference, but never failing
to fire in houses where Jews, some,
times to the number of a hundred,
were making a stand against their
assailants. The soldiers said the Jews
were revolutionists, and that was their
excuse for firing on them. The au-
thorities who wanted to do something
to stop the massacre, were utterly
poWerless.
Although 1t is freely charged that
the higher authorities of Bialystok de-
liberately organized the massacre, or
if this was not the case, that it was
carried out under orders from st. Pc
tersburg, there is no evidence to sup
port xeither charge.