White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-27
FRIGHTFTL ATROCITIES COM
MITTED UPON HELPLESS JEWS

a made pubic tht feouiao VI Q
years investigation of the crue1ties
inflicted upon Jews by Russian sol
diery.
1t is an affecting story, and beside
its horrors even the most exaggerat-
ed accounts of suffering In Belgium
fade into insignifcanee.
Among the members of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee are Louis
Marshall, Oscar S. Straus, Jacob Fl.
Schin, Cyrus Adler, Jacob II. Hol-
lander. Julian W. Mack, julius Ro-
senwald, A. Leoweil, Isaac Bernheim
and others OF the same type. No one
will doubt the truthfulnes of any re-
port vouched for by such men.
The report details at length the
most horrid cruelties inflicted upon
the poor Jews.
The savage cossacks locked whole
congregations in the synagognes 10
which the frightened creatures had
fled.
They then stripped and foully out
ragged the women and girls before
the eyes of their fathers, husbands
and brothers. When their lust was
satiatcd they cut the women to pieces
with their whips and put the men to
death with savage tortures. In many
instances they fastened the poor
wretches to the synagogues and
burned them all to death.
Women, old and young. some with
babes pressed to their bosoms, some
about to become mothers, were strip
ped and knouted and outraged in
broad daylight in the public squares.
while the Russian army officers look
ed on and jeered at the beastly In
humanity of their soldiery.
Specific details of names, dates
and places are given, showing that
Jewish men were crucifed, or COW
cred with oil and burned alive, while
these incarnate devils laughed and
shouted In glee over the agonies OF
the tortured.
Whole villages driven be-
meath the blows of the knout to van
der forth to die of hunger and cold,
while their homes we're given to the
flames.
Tens of thousands of ~inoffensive
creatures we're herded like cattle into
box cars. In the depth of the Rus
sian winter. and left to freeze and
starve and die. The sick, the feeble,
the insane yer all packed together
in these cruel carr of death.
The committees confidential agents
estimate that over THREE MILLION
JEWISH MEN, WOMEN AND chill
DREN have been pillaged, robbed
their homes and crops burned and
they themselves driven forth to wan
der in the fields and swamps, there
to suffer and to die.
1t is the most hideous story Of
human %savagery and human suffer
ing that has ever stained the pages
of history-and IL Is a shame and
disgrace that dts horrible details
have been concealed during all these
months by the censors of the civiliz
ed nations which are in alliance will
ithaca D,cafon oouo0oc
There have been more i%noffensiv'
Jews exposed to death. robbery, out
rage and terror than there are inhab
itants in all Belgium. Yet the who'll
world has been made to ring witt
Belgium's story, while the censor
and war boards of Christian Englan,
and France have not permitted
word to be told Of the awful miser
les endured by these millions of de
fenseless Jewish people under tn
whips and bayonets of the barbarian
Of the Russian steppes.
1t is time this conspiracy of silenc'
was broken, time that the awfu
truth was made known, time that tn
American people learned what orgie
of lust and frightful cruelty have de
yastated Galicia and Poland. tim
that Russia's savage government ant
savage officers and soldiery were N
longer protected from the e~xecratiol
of the world because they are in al
lance with civilized nations whicl
are interested In concealing the bar
barities OF their allies.
"The Examiner" did not hesitat'
to speak its Indignation over thu
sufferings OF the Belgians. Neither
will II consent to hide its indigna
ton over the Infinitely worse suffer
ings inflicted by the savage Cossacl
hordes upon the wretched Jews-an,
inflicted by express order of tn
Cars military commanders. with tn
express approval Of the Gar himself
in the face of protests of the Rus
sian Liberals, the better class Of tn
Russian people. and the majority o
the Russian Duma.