Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-20
INHUMANlTY DISPLAYED
Would Have Done Credit to the Mon.
Sol HOrdeS Of GelghlS Khan in His
COaqueSIS Of China and Asia.
TROOPS URGED ON THE MOBS
During tho Rloting the Jews
We're Hunted Down by
FeroClous Pursuers.
MANY JEWS WERE TORN TO PIECES

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires
Grodno, Russia, June 2O.- Owing to
the refusal OF the censor az Bialystok 10
permit the free tclegrnphing of the result
Of the investigation by the Associated
Press Of the massacre OF Jews there It's
correspondent came here The anti
Jewish roting at Bialystok Is ended. The
troops are in full control. and In view
Of the cutlery raised, il is certain that
the authorities viii not permit renewal
OF the horrors recently witnessed az Bialy-
stok
This entire region IS greatly excited,
owing TO fear TINT tho Bialystok massacre
was only the signal for a general attack
on the Jews throughout this district and
IN Poland but, It any such conspiracy
existed il is too late 20 carry out the
plans, as the most imperative orders TO
prevent further outbreaks have been
issued 70 the governors and governors
general from ST. Petersburg.
When the correspondent arrived at
BialYstok, Sunday morning, the worst
was over, but all on sides there was re-
voting evidence Of savage bestiality on
the part of tho hlood-drunken mohs,
which sacked and burned tho Jewish
houses, shops and stores For ~ hours
with n slight abatement during the day
time, the mad orgie Of blood and pillnge
went on unchecked. The inhumanity
displayed would have done credit 20 the
Mongol hordes Of Genghis Khan in his
conquests of China and Central Asia
early IA tho Thirteenth Century AZ
FIRST police and troops urged on the mohs,
but finally, when dismayed by the bloody
deeds accomplished, they reluctantly
sought 20 obey the orders Of their SUI
periors to put an end to the work Of the
apaciOus bands Of roughs, who were so
far beyond the control Of tho local force
that regiment after regiment had TO be
thrown into the city before order could
be restored
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ierocious pursuers, who
in the majority Of cases were not content
with killing more victims, but tore them
10 pieces. like wild animals, And, while
this was in progress, tho troops either
stood idly by or, as was more frequently
the case, fired into the houses and shops
where Jews were concealed, under the
pretext thhat they believed them TO be
/ revoutionists. but really to make way
for the murdcrors and plunderera, who
followed in the soldiers wake. While
it is impossible to give the exact figures
the visits Of the correspondent 20 The
hospitals and cemeteries enable him 4
approximate the killed az 100 Jews anc
20 Christians and the wounded 40 l5l
Jews and soven Christians.
The question of the origin Of the mas
sacre was carefully investigated. Although
/ ..... 90 tI. I,,,-s 1antal fhuf a homl
was thrown 81 the Corpus Christi process
sion Thursday. the fact that a bomb wa
thrown is established beyond a doubt
but the question OF who threw the homl
remains unsettled The accounts Of i'm
partial witnesses, however, demonstrat
ihat an insulting cry enraged the Jews
who attacked the religious procession
Next from one end OF the city 20 th
other, the police spread tho report Of N
attaclz. thus tanning the religious fanati
cism ol the Christians and setting loos
the worst clements upon the Jews, o.
whom the crowds watching the prooes
sion had already turned. The Jews q
first fought with revolvers and bombs
and with these weapons the majority q
the Christian victims were killed. Bu
the Jews were soon overwhelmed an
fed for shelter, like rabbits TO warrenl
into cellars or attics. The soldier
watched this chase and butchery, som'
times laughing with indifference, .bl
never failing TO fire into houses whei
Jews, sometimes to the number OF
, hundred. were making q stand againi
their assailants The soldiers said th
q Jews were reyolutionists, and that w
their excuse for firing on them. III
authorities who wanted to do somethin
10 stop the massacre were, with u
police and troops, in open sympath
with the mohs and utterly powerles
Although il is freely charged that u
higher authorities OF Bialystok delibe
atelv organized the massacre, or, II "a
S we're not the case, that il was carried OF
t under orders from St. Petersburg the
is no evidence 20 support either oharg
G according to the investigations OF u
=. Parliamentary Commission, whose mer
, bers were especially anxious 70 elucida
this point. NJ SchepSin OF Odessa
4 member Of the commission, said
: "We wished especially 10 bring hor
n the responsibility TO the government,
the massacre were organized in st. Peter
j burg. But our conclusions are that
y wns not planned in St. Petersbul
y Neither do we find proof that Nhiet
y Police Sherometiefl Of Bialystok was
partv to the plot. However, the
!, sponsibnitv Of his subordinates,
u gether with that Of the rank and file
10 fhe poice and some Of the militia
n officers. who fondly imagine that
odions system Of Won Plehve and Irep
Z has not ended. Is clearly proven,
4 have failed to clear up whether a poll
3. man or an anarchist threw the bon
l. our investigations only demonstr.
that the real cause Of this and SIM
= tragedies is the position Of the Je'
4 which makes tho ignorant Russians C
| slider them TO be pariahs outside the p
lection Of the law The Jews eve
| where are now organizing societies
self-defencc, and as soon as they Sh
| the slightest resistance TO perseeut
they will be treated by the troops o
ignorant populaoe as reyolutonistsi