The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

LUZ, RUSSIAN HOldnO sept IL.
The Jews of Russian Poland, now
in the hands of the AustriaIs and
Germans. appear to have suffered
prior to the Russian retirement.
more thar the normal amount of
hardship imposed by war. An in
vestigation by a correspondent OF
the Associated Press discloses that
there was a rather promiscuous ex-
ecution by the Russian of Jews &C
cused of espionage, that many per-
sons were subjected to physical as
saults of greater or less violence,
committed with knouts or flats OF
swords, and that in many places
chiefly out of the way villages and
rural districts. there was some plul-
dering of Jewish shops and houses
by Russian soldiery.
The correspondent visited the two
chief cities of this district. LODI and
Piotrokow. His proposal to visit oth-
er cities was met by the statement
of Jews consulted that nothing
much happened in the cities and that
the proposed trip would not be worth
while. He questioned some Jews
from the districts around LODI and
Piotrokow. but was not able to visit
the small villages and the rural dis
tricts generally, where the Jews al
lege most of the massascres, plum
behring's, violations, etc. occurred. The
outstanding feature of every case III
vestigated was hat III the word OF
one Jewish scholar nothing happen
ed to the Jews without a previous
denunciation. In some instances TINS
feature of the case was Immediately
admitted: in others it was Dug
to light by further inquiry.
A typical case of the latter sort
was that of a Jew named kozlowsKl,
a store keeper. The story first told
was this: When the Russians came
TO his town in November. they were
angry because it had come to their
ears that some Jew of the village
had boosted that the Germans would
make short work of the Russians
The Russians lined up all the male
inhabitants of the town and threat
ened to shoot or hang them unless
the man responsible for the words
complained of was delivered up.
ThereupoH Kozlowski stepped for
ward. assumed responsibility for the
words in question and was hanged.
The correspondent finally sue
ceeded in having a a with koZ"
lOWski'S son, who witnessed INC
affair. When the Russians first en-
tered the village they asked Tor
Kozlowski. He had been hiddeLi by
a friend but was eventually found
He managed to escape from the SOL
diers guarding him and the COM
mander of the Russian regiment
had all male Jews drawn up in a
line and announced that all would
be killed unless Kozlowski was de-
livered up. K~oslokski informed or
the threat, presented himself. he
was taken away by a squad OF sol
diers and shot.
"But how did the Russians Know
there was a Koslowski in town and
why did they want him. was ASH
ed by the correspondent.
"a rival in business had sent word
TO the Russians that KOslOwskl was
a SPY and that he was storing M
goods for the Germans" was the
answer.
Accepting as true the story OF the
manner of the execution, as 1T was
told by the father and son OF the
victim. it was marked by a spectre
cruelty which frequently marked en-
ecutiohs during the Russian raid in
to East Prussia last October The
correspondent at that time found
many instances in which the VIC
tins were stood against walls n
instead of being killed by volley
fire. as is usual in such executions
were killed by soldiers firing ar
will. Koslowski appears to have
heen executed in the same mahna"'
Polish denunciationS, according
to witnesses were responsible FOR
the only three cases of ~atrOcity or
cruelty found in Lodz itself. Russian
soldiers came to the home of Abram
Kochan in November and took him
away. His wife was prevented from
following him. This was on a Fri
day. The mans body was found
outside the city on the following
Tuesday. He had been shot.
Israel Blockman, an old man,
told how the Russians took his son
from the house on a Wednesday
and how the body was found two
days later outside the city. He had
been shot and ~bayohetted.
Meilach Eilenberg, a mar of about
45. got into trouble with the Lodz
authorities in November by making
and selling cigarettes without a IL
cense. An official visited him and
Eilenberg paid SO roubles as hush