The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-20
PRESIDENT ASKED TO SAVE JEWS IN
 EUROPEAN LANDS
Zionist Organization of America and American Jewish Committee Jointly Ask Woodrow Wilson to Prevent Threatened Mas sacres in Poland and Roumania.

Representative Jewish organizations of America are taking active steps to avert the threat of massacre which hangs over the heads of Eastern Eur ope, and particularly in Poland and Rumania- Hon. Julian W. Mack, president of the Zionist Organization of America, and MT. Louis Marshall, chairman of the American Jewish Committee, have joined in a telegram addressed to President Wilson, ac- quainting him with the facts concern ing the threatened massacres, which have come to their knowledge within the past few days, and asking him to take such action as may save the thousands of European Jews from the impending horrors. The telegram to the President reads:
 "On this, one of the most memor- able days in the worlds history, when the death warrant of autocracy and militarism has been signed and. that yearned-for hour of emancipa- ton has arrived, to the speeding of which our beloved country has by the guidance of Divine Providence played SC to save the unhappy Jews of Eastern Europe from the destruction which at this very moment threatens them. There has just come to us from Co., penhagen the following cablegram:
 Received alarming news from ab- solutely reliable sources. Jews of all East European countries threaten ed by greatest danger of progroms Riots in country and approaching de- | mobilization lead to general anarchy of which Jews will be first victims. Wild agitation rousing basest in stincts everywhere, especially Ru- | mania, Poland. In Paper Dumini- ca Proprului circulated by authorities amongst peasants Minister of Educa- ton recommends cruel practices to 1 force Jews to emigrate. The well known politician, Mile, breaches boy | colt against aliens (meaning Jews) | severer than in Poland. Posters in 1 cite population to slaughter Jews. l Pogroms expected to break out any moment. Black hundred receiving l arms from army while Jewish self 1 defense impossible, lack of arms. Also l in Poland agitation for pogroms. At | Warsaw Jews attacked in streets and shops demolished, plundered. Worse pogroms than 1905 dreaded. Chief Commander Polish forces, General Vitaldorski, in proclamation eighth | October denounced Jews as leaders | of Bolshevism, demands as hostages
 all Jewish representatives, corpora
 tions and municipal councils all Rab- bis and directors schools, synagogues
 to be shot moment of beginning Bol-
 shevist activity. In this minute ot
 panic Jewish population seeking pro
 tection from cruel excesses regards as only hope immediate effective inter-
 national intervention. It must b(
 made clear claims of only such na
 tions will be recognized who by
 treatment of national minoritie
 prove worthy of political national in
 dependence. Only immediate actint
 can save millions of Jews from ter
 ribIe danger. In name of these mil
 lions we urge for help. Fulfill you duty, help save our brethren"
 This information supplements tha
 which was conveyed to you in tn , communication of the American Jew , ish Committee submitted on Frida. last concerning the Polish situation and serves to demonstrate the i'm portance of an insistence upon tn
 immediate termination of the anti
 Jewish boycott now raging in Polan
 by those who called it into being an
 who are now seeking with the aid o = our country to erect the new Polan I without adequate constitutional safe guards for our oppressed, people. also indicates the supreme peril i 3 which the Jews of Rumania fin themselves and forbodes what may b expected in Germany and the forme . territory of Austria-Hungary unles
 strong and immediate preventiv | measures are taken. We place i'm U pIicit reliance on your desire to req
 ize the ideal of basing all governmer
 on the principles of liberty, justic
 and humanity and we trust that sue
 action may be taken as will stay tn
 hand of the Destroyer that is agai
 raised against the age-long victims
 hatred, prejudice and intolleranc With deep concern we look to yo
 for helD