The Denver Jewish news., 1918-12-12
Pogrom Horror Grows
Poles Boycott, Jews
New Massacres Feared at CZernOwiee
Eleven Hundred Dead in Lemberg
And Massaeres Reported in Seven
Other Galician Towns.

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pOgrOm that may break out at any
moment in Czernowice. an Austrian
city which lies close to the Roumanian
Border. The Jewish National Council
of Vienna reports that a large num-
Der of Roumanians have already cross
ed the border into CZernowice and have
begun agitation which must inevitably
lead to massacre unless immediate
steps are taken to prevent this new
outrage which it is feared Will spread
to all of the Roumanian territory re-
Gently occupied by German and Aus
trian troops.
4 series of cables received by tho
Zionist Organization of America give
details and absolute confirmation of
| the terrible pogroms reported in Lem
berg and other parts of Galicia. Most
\ of these details come from Il prom
inent Lcmberg journalist Max IIelner
whose reliability is vouched for by
the Copenhagen ZiOnistsoffice.
He reports that the pOgroms began
in Lcmbcrg Immediately after the ar
rival in that city of Polish Legionaircs
on Nov. 22nd The Legionaircs storm
ed the Jewish shops, plundcrcd them
and then hawked tire goods about for
| sale. They attacked everyone who op-
posed them. As proof that these eN-
ccsses were sanctioned by the military
authorities if not organized by them.
Reiner points to the fact that the
Polish COmmandant issued procla-
nation giving leave to the soldiers to
plumber for forty-cight hours. The
Jewish militia was disarmed and many
members of that body killed by the
I.egionaires.
After the Polish conquest of Lem.
berg. the Polish legionaires marched
| into the Jewish streets In double file
under command of their officers. sys
tematfcally 'plundering all the shops
breaking doors open with their rifle
butts and hand grenades.
On Nov. .23rd, after all the wine
cellars of the city had been looted
the massacres began. ia first the leg
| ionaircs slew several Jews walking III
the streets. Aftcrward they drove the
Jews into their homes and slaughter
| ed whole families. Several families
were entirely exterminated and sew
eral hundred men and women who
had fled into the synngog hoping til.
POLES would respect these holy place
L., 81, fIn IN which the
lcgionaircs consigned the synagog
| Those who attempted to jump out OF
| the windows were shot down. The
number of victims in the synagog was
over hundred.
The whole Jewish quarter was cut
| off by the legionaires and every house
systematically destroyed by fire ana
bombs. People who fled from the
burning houses were driven back by
legionaircs using bayonets. They were
either burned or slain. y few of the
Weather Jews were able to buy their
escape. On Nov. 23rd in the afternoon
the entire, Jewish quarter had been
entirely destroyed. Charred bodies lit,
tered tile streets. No exact estimate
of the number dead is possible. but it
! is certain that the number exceeds
eleven hundred. Ten thousand Jews
are shelterless and eighty per cent Oh
the Jewish population of Ecmbcrg Is
absolutely ruined.
The Polish population is very much
pleased with these pOgrOms says Rein
er in his report, and the Polish ladies
and gentlemen walk the streets even
as the Frenth gendry walked the
streets on the morning following the
massacre of St Bartholomew, to en-
Joy the grtlsOme spectacle. Not before
the morning of the oath was martial
law proclaimed by the Polish Com
mander, altho its proclamation on the
o2nd would have prevented these mas
sacres Rciner charges that this ON s'
sion was deliberate. He points out
that after the proclamation of martial
law only three loOters were shot, but
not single officer, or soldier of thu
Polish Legion has been apprehended
altho many of the Polish Officers who
participated in the looting have been
recognized After the pogrom the Pol
ish commanders issued n proclamation
in which they declared that the ex
cesses had been provoked by Jews
having shot at the legionaires.
The Copenhagen Zionist office has
supplied the following details of the
boycotts against the Jews that prevail
thruout Poland and Galicia. In War
saw. blackedged posters were put NJ
all over the city containing the names
and denouncing as traitors all wht
had been selling provisions to the Jews