The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-28
JEWS MASSACRED
 IN BUEN0S AIRES

Details have just been received by ehe Zionist Organization of America of pogrom, in Buenos Aires. Argen- tine on January 9th last, with all the usual East European features, when during a strike, rumor was spread that the walk out" was the begin ming of q Bolshevist revolution melted Tby the Jews. Even articles of wor- ship were torn open to make certain they contained no dynamite. The Zi- onist Federation of Argentine. which has nado an official report of the po- grom to the American OrEa nization, Is unable to estimate the number of killed, because the police were busy all of one night removing corpses from the streets of the Jewish guar ter. and huryinE the victime in a com mon grave. It was only the ener- getio intervention of the Zionist Fed er'atfon of Argentine, which enjoys diplomatic relations with the govern ment and with Teprese natives of for etgn governments that prevented the Soogrom from having even more tragic results. But the fire of hatred stiu flares, and the Jews are seri- ously contemplating emigration.
 The report of the Zionist Fedora ton of Argentine briefly narrates the facts of the general strike. and the organization of @ White Guard by students to savo the land from Bol- shevhz1, although 1t speedily became evident that the alleged ''Maximalist Revolution" was merely an absur6 runor magnified by the yellow" press, The report then says:
 From the verg7 beginning the dis order assumed enti-Semitdc character. The first attacks on Jews occurred on the streets The White Guard invaded the Jewish district and every Jew, in fact, every persons who looked like a Jew, was stopped, bT-utally beaten, and dragged off 10 the police station. The White Guard did not discriminate between young and old; a 7O-year-old gray beard. and a 15-year-old boy were treated alike. The game was speedily given a name, The Russian Hunt When this sport paHed, the White Guard, amply protected by the poHce, and frequently with the lat ters cooperation, organized 'patri- ot+c' demonstrations which wended their way through the Jewish quar- ter, and raided the meeting places of various Jewish organizations, sacking them and setting fire to the furniture which they piled in the streets. Not even the synagogues were spared, and in one where a number of Jews were praying, the police levelled their mus kets at the assembly and ordered them to throw up their hands They were searcheG but of course nothing dangerous was found. The police or dered phytacteries to fbe torn open in order to make sure that they did not contain dynamite.
 ''NoHt the raiders gave their ~atten- ton to Jewish homes. All night long, to the accompaniment of incessant YrhnOf{por Jn continued on the pretext that Maxi maltsts were being hidden from the police. Houses were wrecked and men, women, and children, unmerci- fully beaten. All the men were ar rested and many women. Hundreds were taken to the police station in a dying condition There they were de- n4ed food and drink and some of the wives and children of the prisoners who brought food to the men were beaten and thrown out and warned that if they returned they would also be put in cells. During the raids many sick women and others in del- tcate condition, were thrown from their beds, and beaten an5 driven, half-naked, into the streets Over one thousand Jews were arrested The number killed cannot be ascertained because the police were busy all of OAHS IiStDL TeII1ONinB SOTIeSeS rom the streets and burytng them in 8 com mon grave.
 Due to the official character of the Zionist Federation and its prestige in official and unofficial circles, and the relations which it has established with foreign diplomats, this organiza- tion was in a position to take ener- gettc steps to bring this reign of ter TOT to an end. The representatives of the Zionist Federation waitel upon the chief of police of Buenos Aires and made g. successful demand that these outrages on the Jewish popula- ton be drought to a speedy end. At the same time it issued a statement to the press denou Ccing the accusa- ton of Bolshevism which had been hurled against the pogrom victims and which was made the pretext for these outrages. As a result the chief of police issued an order 10 all the