Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-13
100000 JEWS IN !.
LONDON OBSE RYE
DAY Of MOURNING
Vast Procession Marches
Through Streets as Protest
Against MasSaCreS OF Their
Race in Polish Cities.
Rv Margaret Walter.

ESPECIAL coRRzsRohokhck TO hoNS'HS 'OurN~Ni
London, Aug 12.-"Who are they?
What does it mean? Why are they
SO sad" Suddenly into the middle
of oxford circus, one of the gayest
and busiest spots in London at 4
O'Clock in the afternoon. thick
sluggish silent stream of black ROBBED
men, women and children flowed over
pavement and foot passage damming
up traffic, stopping omnibuses and
hating the crowds of shoppers eager
" intent upon the first week of mid
summer bargain sales. Nobody SEEM
ed to know what it was all about.
Excited people exchanged whispers
about Bolshevism. A nervous little
woman with a child clinging to her
spirit plucked the sleeve of a khaki
clad boy in the slow moving process
sion, questioning him. I'VE are the
Jews. This is the day of mourning
We protest against the massacre of
innocent Jews in Poland"
Unnoticed by Press.
The papers hadn't taken much no.
tice of the announcement that the
Jews in this country had set aside
day of fasting and mourning for their
co-religionists in Poland so people
We're taken by surprise when what
seemed like the whole population of
the East End began to inundate Lon
don's fashionable West End.
The day began with meetings at the
Peoples palace and the pavilion in
Mile End road and Whitechapel,
where Izreal Zangwill Leopold
Rothschild, Sir Stuart Samuel and
other distinguished Zionists told the
people that murder must not be hush
ed up. At all the meetings resolu-
tons were passed calling on the gov
eminent and the peace conference 10
put a stop to the prosecuting of the
Jews.
Every Jewish Shop Closed.
Every Jewish shop in London was
closed for the day. Jewish factory
people left off work and even theater
people took the day. After the meet
ings in the East End, the Jews. 1907
600 strong joined in huge process
sion to Queens hail. where they surg
ed round the entrances. Admission
was only by ticket so only the eapac-
ity of the hall could get in. The rest
of the great army flowed along Ok
ford street and Hyde park, where
speeches were made, mainly by dis
charged soldiers and silver badge
men, most of whom wore wound
stripes and service, ribbons and deco
rations.
It is a good six miles as the crow
flies from the Mile End road to Hyde
park and considerably more weaving
in and out of the city's maze OF
streets. s--
On foot and in crazy ramshackle
carts and carry-alls they marched
AS they went along they were Joined
by new groups until, it seemed as If
the sombre stream would never cease.
There was no show of ostentation,
one or two rude homemade banners
bore Hebrew legends or repeated the
protest Every few yards were
groups of Jewish soldiers freshly re-
turned from the east, their bronze
cheeks pale and their dark eyes
ablaze. They talked in low voices as
they marched and told their friends
of things they had seen with their
own eyes. Then letters had come
from Palestine telling of lamentation
in Jerusalem and how 5000 Jewish
soldiers stationed there were over
come by the heartrending scenes fol-
lowing the blowing of the jubilee horn
when, led by the aged and learned
rabbi, all Jewry threw themselves in
parozysms of grief upon the stones
and raised their voices in one mighty
wall to heaven over the persecution
of their kin in Poland.
No Chatter Heard.
For once the chatter of the young
girls was silenced; hundreds of them,
garment workers, fur workers and hat
makers, seemed to have reverted TO
their eastern roles of submission and
abasement. They walked, dressed In
rusty black mostly. their arms hang
ing listlessly, their eyes downcast,
Swallowed by long lashes. Their faces
were pale and there was no sign OF
the gay little feminine vanities which