Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-20
Zangwill on the Jews as a Factor
In the War---and After the Wa,


spect. But the main measure, transpires
from all the Duma speeches, consisted or con.
sists-for It has not yet quite ceased--in driy.
Ing out whole populations at a few hours notice
from their homes and possessions; In turning
some six hundred thousand Jews into yaga.
ponds and mendicants. The sick, including
women in childbirth and cases OF contagious
disease, were dragged from their beds the
orphans from the asyums, the lunatics from
the Warehouses. and such as could be packed
In any goods trucks available were sent of
without food water with letters OF con.
segment like goods: the others. men. women
and children. had to 90 afoo. through the
wintry roads
III baby died on the way. the parents couId
not stop to bury It; II the scarlntina or typhus
patients died in the train. the bodies we're not
removed. Dzioubinsk the peasant deputy,
told the Duma OF an evacuation OF Jews which
he had himself witnessed in the Govern.
ment OF Radon. AT eleven o'clock at night"
20 ran his description. "the whole Jewish popu.
lation was suddenly exed. Whoever was
found at daybreak would be hanged In tho
darkness OF the night began the exodus 70
the nearest city, thirty versts Chat is twenty
miles) distant. There was means OF trans.
port. The old. the sick. tho paralytic we're
carried by the others"
letter was read In the Duma from a younE
American Jew who had emigrated from Rus
STA ten years before at the age of eighteen,
leaving his relatives still there When war
broke out he rsked his life in returning to
Russia via Archangel to enlist, because, he
wrote. II love the land OF my birth more than
my life. than the liberty enjoyed In
America. In the Carpathians lost ny
right ARM almost UP to the shoulder and vs..
invalided home. On my way / met, quite b.
chance. at railway station my mother and
my family, expelled from native place
This tragedy broke me up again. and am now
in the military hospital OF Riga. Toll
the gentlemen OF the Right" he wound W.
that do not regret the arm have lost VIVA,
regret is the human dignity enjoyed on the
foreign soil OF America"
The Russians Prosecute
Even Their Jewish Soldiers.
"Gentemen." cried the Leader OF the SO.
cial Democrats. "in burst OF irrepressble
Indignation. ut lis now year that we being
told that this shambles. this ocean OF blood. is
In the name OF law, truth and Justice In the
name OF the highest principles OF freedom
equality and fraternity. II So let me ask the
government few questions Under what law
is whole people made TO answer for the
crimeslet us assume they are the hcaves,
crimes-of some Of It's members? What kind
Of truth ia It when lying communications are
being fabricated and published in the official
organ OF the government, that the Jews OF
Kuzhi have betrayed the Russian soldiers to
the enemy? Why have the various periodical
publications been ordered to publish this lie
under threat OF penalties? What justice is
this that requires that Jewish volunteer who
has been several times in battle. and Is now
crippled and mutilated, shall be expelled with.
IN twentyfour hours from places in Russia
where he was looking for employment
What humanity Is this which forbds the
Offering OF food to hungry Jewish fugitives
immured In sealed wagons at the stations?
What freedom is this TO have the whole jewish
press suppressed and destroyed by single
stroke OF the pen? What fraternity Is this
when part OF the army is melted against the
jewish soldiers who are risking their lives In
the same trenches side by side with the others7
The Germans accused of violating the ac
cepted rules OF war but, gentlemen. In
tho name of what code OF law are orders Is.
sued to the Russian Army to drive the peace.
fu Jewish population forward under the Are
OF the enemy's bullets? BY virtue Of what code
are Jewish subjects OF Russia being taken as
hostages and thrown into prison, In order
subject them to torture and 10 have them shot?
The Germans are being branded for not hay
Ing spared Rheims Cathedral. But let me ask
you Wnat clinical OF aeStnetlC principle under
lies the outraging OF Jewish woman within
the precincts of the synagogue whittier she had
fed In the hope OF escaping her terrible fate?"
Such have been the legal suferings OF the
Jews In Russia In war -time-the mere military
measures. l have omitted, you will remember
the facts furnished by my Jewish informants
] have not repeated a syllable which Russia
has censored. Nor have referred to the hor
Of the actual warfare; the fact that the
jewish Pale the very heart of the war
zone. bombarded and pillaged by both be
gerents, taken and retaken, its miserable in
habitants shot and hanged as spies by each
side in turn. | have not recalled to you the
myriads OF orphans and widows created legtl.
mately on the battlehelds
friend Of mine. a neutral relates that in
Switzerland he met a Jew from Russia who
having seen all these things. sits In his room
all day long writing appeals to the rulers and
potentates OF the nations. begging them to
make an end of the sufferings OF the Jews
You perceive that he Ia mad