The Washington herald., 1919-05-27
HALT SLAUGHTER
0FJEWS, SENATE
EDICT To EUROPE
Governments to Be Warned
Material Assistance viii
Be Withheld.
CABLE SENT TO POLAND
Resolution Calling Upon
President for Drastic
Action, Adopted.

The United States government
yesterday demanded an end to the
massacre of Jews in Europe. The
Senate. by unanimous vote. depIored
the slaughter of innocent men
women and children, and called
upon President Wilson for action.
The State Department. before
adoption of the Senate resolution
had despatched another note to the
Polish government, calling on it to
dtsist from the terroristic tactics
its citizens have employed against
Jews. The American governmen nj
proposed to stop further massacres
and will take drastic means if nee
essary. One of the latter will be
the refusal to grant offending na-
tiOns either material or normal sup
port. and material support these
days can come only from America.
Calder Presents Resolution.
Senator Calder. of New York. was
the author of the Senate resolution,
which was adopted without debate.
Usually it is the custom for a reso-
luton to lay over for one day.
The Calder resolution. though. was
passed Immediately 1t follows:
Whereas, it is reported that inno-
cent men. women and children. par
ticularly of the Jewish faith. are be-
ing outraged and massacred in Poland.
Rumania and Galicia; therefore. be it
Resolved. by the Senate of the
United States of America that the
Department of State be. and hereby
is directed to communicate such re-
ports to the President of the United
States. and request that he confer
with the representatives at the Peace
Conference of the countries where
such outrages and massacres are re-
ported to occur, and inform them that
this body and the American people
generally deeply deplore acts of yio-
lence and cruelty committed against
men, women and children because OF
race or religion"
Cable Sent to Poland.
Frank Polk. Acting Secretary of
State, cabIed Hugh Gibson, Ameri-
can Minister to Poland, to further
represent to the Polish government
the attitude of the American gov
ernment. Our attitude-as far as
the State Department is concerned
is one which calls for an immediate
end to the outrages. Similar action
was taken with regard to the Ru-
manian government. The United
States. it was made plain by off,
Gals will enter into no negotiations
with any future Russian government
unless it is assured in advance OF
poIicy which will prevent pogroms.
The action of the Senate is sure to
he followed by similar action on the
mart of the House within the next
day or two
Representative Isaac Siegel. of
New York. called on Mr.. Polk yes
terday afternoon with additional IN
formation of the massacres in Po-
land, and it was on receipt of this
80 the acting secretary sent an
other cable to Minister Gibson IN
Warsaw.
Predicts FriShtfuI Slaughter.
OhiCiaIs here are greatly eXer-
c,sed over the reports of the mas
sacres. Mr.. Siegel declared that the
overthrow of Bolshevism in Hun
gary would be followed by the
Greatest excesses in the history OF
the world. Unless some definite plan
is Forthcoming from the American
government now, there VIII De
nothine to stop the slaughter of
thousands of innocent persons.
Representative Siegel has just re-
ceived a supplementary report on
conditions in Poland, as affecting
Jews. from Miss Carrie Lowenstein,
former secretary to Felix Warburg.
New York banker. who is now in
France in charge of Jewish relief
work.
children were bayOnetted. shops
robbed, their owners murdered. men
and women stripped of their clothes
and beaten On the streets. accord
ing to Miss Lowenstein. She charges
that Polish authorities in small
towns are responsible for these
norroms. Jews in Poland are no
longer allowed to ride in the rail-
road trains. or to use street cars.
Cry to U. S. for Help.
Polish Jews cry to American
Jews for help" her cable con-
cludeS.
MIR. Gibson has prepared a re-
wort on atrocities in Poland on
.ews. which includes events up 10
the end of November. Mr.. Siegcl
was Informed yesterday. This re-
mort is so bulky. and contains such
n mass of data on the inhumanities
nracticed on defenceless men, wom-
en- and children that it was too long
nahlad II WAS therefore
naiIed. and it's receipt is expected
1yitbin the next week or two.
Mr.. Siegel presented Mr.. Polk with
n complete list of the forty-eight Jews
LilIed in the Lemburg pogrom. Men,
women and children, ranging in age
all the way to so years. were muir
dered. The list arrived by courier.
This il one instance where the verac-
ity of the new Polish government is
called into question. as it denied the
occurrence.