Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-06-21

1t Is with fear for friends and kin
that many of them read of the rioting
and disorder. Some talk of protest,
If it mikht do any good, is heard. The
actions of the authorities are de-
nounced as unwarranted and inhu-
man3ff
BIALYSTOK, June 21.-Three Off
cial Investigations to determine the
responsibility for the massacre of the
Jews will be at once opened. These
are to be conducted by the commission
of the lower house of parliament, the
minister of the interior and the min
istry of justice. All witnesses of vio-
lence and sufferers by excesses are in
vited by the ministry of justice to sub
NIT depositions to the judge of the To-
cal court
1t is said that in replying to jew
ish deputation which visited him be-
fore the Bialystok outbreak the gov
ernor of Grodno said he thought a lit
tie bloodletting would be useful, add
ing: "That was the case in June, 1905.
Only forty Jews were killed, but we
had peace for six months afterward."
The police are enforcing the restora-
tion of pillaged property.
This entire region is greatly excited
owing to fear that the Bialystok mas
sacre was only the signal for general
attack ON the Jews throughout the
pale, and in Poland, but if any such
conspiracy existed it may be too late
to carry out the plans. as the most i'm
peratiye orders to prevent further out
breaks have been issued to the govern
ors and governor generals from st. Pc
tersburg.
When correspondents arrived at Bl-
alystok the worst was already over,
but on all sides there was revolving
evidence of savage bestiality on the
part of the blood-drunken mobs, which
sacked and burned the Jewish houses
shops and stores. For seventy-two
hours, with a slight abatement during
the daytime, the mad orgy of blood
and pillage went on unchecked. The
inhumanity displayed would have done
credit to the Mongol hordes of Genghis
Khan in his conquests of China and
central Asia early in the thirteenth
century
| At first police and troops urged on
'fife mob, but finally, when dismayed
by the bloody deeds accomplished they
reluctantly sought to obey the orders
of their superiors to put an end to the
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so far beyond control of the local forces
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 ferocious pursuers,
who in the majority of cases were not
content with killing more victims, but
tore them to pieces, like wild animals.
The troops either stood idly by or fired
into the houses and shops where Jews
were concealed under the pretext that
they believed them to be revelutionists.
The question of the origin of the mas
sacre was carefully investigated. AL
though many of the Jews denied that
a bomb was thrown at the Orthodox
procession In honor of Corpus Christi
day, the fact that bomb was thrown
is established beyond doubt But the
question OF who threw the bomb re-
mains unsettled The accounts of inn
partial witnesses, however, demon
strate that an insulting cry enraged
the Jews, who attacked the religious
procession.
At Riazan the Bolkhofsky regiment
has mutinied, the men surrounding the
Officers club and firing upon 1t. Sew
eral officers were killed. Panic pre-
walls at Riazan. A pogrom Is expected.
The Jews are fleeing.