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BY order of the military authorities
the Jewish population OF Knishin,
GoniondZ and other, towns Of the Bye
lostok district, government of Grodno,
about 5000 in number. were notified to
leave within three days Of May 4.
Finally the term was extended to May
Is. The Jews were removed 10 places
in the Pale of Settlement not in the
war one. (Golos Byeiostoka, Reich,
No. l27)
The YcrreiskoVd Nedpelpa, No. 3,
contained the following statement by
the representative OF the Moscow Jew
ish relief committee. sent from Byelos-
tok On May 80: This week I visited
Grodno. All Jewish women and chill
dren are leaving Grodno. Practically
the entire Jewish population leaving.
On the Esd. $50 people were sent away
TO Elisavetgrad, to-day they are send
ing peop.e away to Berditchev, Rpvno
and Vinitsa- About 1000 arc ready to
cave. Part OF the Jewish population
OF Sokolsk. government Of Grodno. was
ordered to leave: 100 families were
ordered to leave Kuznitsi; 10 families,
that Is about 1000 people. were or
dered TO leave Novy Dvor. Their term
expires June g."
The RuSskoye Sloro published a tele-
gram on May 20 from Rovno to the
effect that 260 families arrived there
from the government Of Grodno. The
Rierskdyd Misl of May 2S said: Yes
!, terday there arrived in Kiev a party OF
Jews. numbering about 600. expelled
, from ErIdnn until thn anl NJ tho uyar
The party consists OF women, chill
dren and a few old men. The Jews
are going to Elisavetgrad and Ekater-
inoslay." The Hoint. No. les, pub
lished a telegram from Homel, stating
that PA refugees arrived there from
the government OF Grodno.
In he beginning OF May the %authori-
ties commenced TO eXpel the Jews
from the governments OF kourland
and Kovno. According to'the RishSky
Vestnik (Retch, No. 1900 an order va
published on April 80 announcing
the expulsion OF the entire Jewish pop
ulation from the government Of kour-
land, on or before May 4. The eX-
peeled were permitted to settle on the
left bank of'the Dnieper in the gov
ernments of Mohilev. Chernigov. Pol
tava. E~katerinoslav ,Tavriga, with the
exception OF the Crimea. 1t was de-
clared that the Jews who would not
leave voluntarily by May 4lwould be
sent away with their families to'one
OF the above, mentioned places on foot.
conveyed by guards. and would, in ad-
ditton. be tried for the violation OF
military orders.
tn. alv,g,l., . n t,Np 2 Ean4 1laaa
watch on the expelled Jews, fearing
lest some of them might remain in
the Baltic provinces. Those who went
20 Riga for the' purpose OF settling
there were compelled to leave i'm
mediately by way of Dvinsk To the
government = OF Mohilev (Retch, No
800. The commandment of 'the city OF
hRevel awaited himself OF this topper
tunity} to issue, an iorder iby'which' all
EJews expelled from other places were
to be kept oht,of Revel% I'M his .onder
he declared: s"I forbid 1.-THE arrival in
this fortified region OF persons of the
Jewish faith, expelled on o of
military requirements from the gov
ernments Of { Kourland. Lifland and
Kovno, and generally from the ZONE
Of military, operations" (Retch. No.
1879
1t Is hard to say with, certainty Just
how many Jews were expelled from
Kourland. According to calculations,
the number was between 0 1000 and
10000. To estimate the Significance
of these figures We must bear in
mind that the Jews have the right
to reside only in'towns in Russia with
in the Pale Of Settlement, that Kour-
land is outside the Pale'of Settlement
and that, consequently the Jews must
have lived there for many years and
generations and have been part and
parcel Of the life Of the towns in'that
province.
1t is quite clear that by the ex-
pulsion OF the Jews OF Kourland a
heavy blow was dealt to that region.
The most important sections lost a con-
siderable portion Of their population
which was active and useful from an
economic point Of view, and thus they
have been practically ruined. 1t was
reported in Mitau that 5000 Jews left
that city at once and arrived in Req
hltsa. in the Government OF Nitebsk
CRassret. No. 49,, The Reich (No,
l23) said: After the expulsion OF
the Jews from Vindava only about
1900 or 1000 inhabitants remained in
that town. All stores and
factories are closed"
To be Just, II must be said that In
Mitau the Russian authorities were
generous and, departing from their
general methods. they allowed sew
eral, Jews foreman, there DR.. FeItel'