The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-20
JEWS DID NOT PROVOKE RIOTS.
cB iRGE TH 4T BOwB WAS rRROWN
AT CHRISTIANS WITHDRAWN.
Complici'y ~ is,eio~tOk OnHciais In the Mae.
sarre Confirmed - On, tr0m PliIaged
Jewish shops Found In Husafan Hon'ra
Threats Made TO lbnnia Members
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LoSDoS. Juno %. 1t IL announced chat
although tho Government IN not prepared
to make representations Co Russia regarding
tho Bielostok massacre, Foreign Secretary
Grey has telegraphed TO the British AM
baasador at St, Petersburg asking for full
information.
The Jewish newspaper In London are re-
ceiving full reports confirming not only the
completely, but the initiative Of the local
officials. Formal official p~roclamations are
now posted in Bielostok withdra wing the
statement that a bomb was thrown by a
Jew at a Corpus Christi procession.
E~yewitnesses told horrible stories to the
commission Of inquiry appointed by the
Duma. Two justices Of the peace testified
that the troops were ordered to turn their
backs while the roughs plundered houses.
Some outrages on individual Jews were Of a
horrible character. One had his legs W
Oft. Many bodies had nails driven into
the heads and trunks. A Jewish physician,
who was found attending to the wounded,
was beaten to death among his patients.
ST. PETERSBURG, m 19.-The situation
for the moment reveals rather the help
l~essness of the Government than the imme-
date probability of a concerted revolution
airy outbreak throughout the empire,
The essential fact established by the
Duma commissions inquiries at Bielostok
is that the department of political police
of the empire, which was separated from
the Ministry of the Interior while Con.
Trepoff was Governor Of st. Petersburg,
,.ata;p. ;ts oanorata axiatapoa With 1rnrla
resources and freedom Of action. Its
agents act Independently of the Ministry
of the Interior, which has no power to dis
miss them. Their real headquarters is at
Peterhoff and Gen. Trepoff is their vigiant
chief.
It has been demonstrated that the army
Is willing to attack the Jews, however
difficult it may be to make the soldiers shoot
peasants.
The nervous unrest pervading all classes
was instanced this morning, when over a
hundred members OF the Duma received
identical letters from anonymous. eelf-
styled patriots, declaring themselves pre-
pared to attack and destroy the Duma. which,
they said, was a nest of traitors. President
Mouromtzeff and leading members Of the
House we're among the recipients of these
letters, as well as many Of the peasant
members who have made radical speeches
since the Duma opened. Some sought to
bring the letters before the House, but the
President succeeded in persuading them to
ignore them.
The Duma debated to-day the equali1a-
ton of the rights of citizens. Deputy Pet
razhizky e~loquently appealed for tho suf-
frage for women. Deputy PetI unkevitch
made a stirring address on behalf Of the
Jews,
The bodies Of seventy-four victims Of
the massaores were buried at Bielostok
yesterday. Thirty sufferers in the hospital
are not expected to recover from their
wounds.
Fifty Jews were killed at Starosielce on
Friday. Anti-Jewish risings at Pogroms,
Osso vice and GodionGz were suppressed
before much damage was done. Six Chris
tians we're killed in Bielostok during the
massacre.
The investigating committee of Jewish
members of the Duma found in a Russian
clergyman's house jewels worth $500,
the proceeds of loot, and in the fat of a
cashier of the State Bank jewels worth
a. 500. all stolen from Jewish shops, 500 of
which were pillaged.
Serious outrages in Poland are reported.
Bands of terrorists have attacked a railroad
train and a country house and the wealthy
Jews are hurriedly leaving the country.
While a general strike has not begun
and apparently is not Immediately i'm
pending there is much unrest everywhere
in the labor world and isolated strikes are
common observers here have little doubt
that these movements will eventually
crysta llize into a universal strike.
The bakeries here are closed, and part
Of the printers, masons and some other
workers are idle. The situation here, how
ever, is better than it is in the provinces.
where the ferment is more marked.
The great fear is a general railway strike.
The employees Of the Syzran-viazma line
nave begun a strike, and the employees on
other lines are discussing their action and
showing an inclination to follow them. 1t
is reported that the Government has ar
ra nged in the event Of matters becoming
worse to put soldiers or every engine, with
orders to shoot the drivers il they quit
their posts. Military trains are ready
for an emergency in the capital.
There are the usual daily reports Of rioting
and other lawlessness in the provinces.
Gov. Humbert of the Kovno prison and his
assistant, Akatof, were both injured by a
bomb thr own at them to-day. The man
xphn thraw tho hnph earapad.