The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-26

lowered eyes OF thousands of women
and the tragedy is too great and gen.
eral to be an object Of shame.
"In many places the Jews were
made TO sing and dance and then they
were slain by the hundreds. Just
think of them dancing and singing
with sobbing voices before being put
to death! In many places all the men
were slaughtered, SO that when you
enter a synagogue you find 1t full
| of women and children saying KIDD
dish
IF the prosecutions are allowed TO
continue the entire Jewish population
In eastern Europe will be wiped out.
This cannot be prevented BY the au-
thority Of the Peace Conference. for
the massacres are the work Of gangs
OF bandits and no organized Govern
mer. can exercise any power over
| them.
Our plan Is to organize a special
Jewish anti-progrom army of several
regiments and we have already many
volunteers. We look to the Jews OF
America to aid in financing II and to
furnish volunteers.
Posroms in sixty-four Towns.
II am on an Official mission as
chairman OF the Ukrainia committee
and can only talk on the ground Of
positive and official information, I
mean information officially gathered
and accepted as absolutely true. So
far we have such information of pog-
roms and massacrcs In sixty-four
towns by the Petlura army, an army
made up OF peasant bands. There are
| d. lANr tal.
dreds of other stricken towns. but
our official investigations have not yet
covered them and so do not mention
them. We believe that Neff IL safe
from pogroms, while outside of Kieff
Ukrainia Is beyond any real control
J and Is q prey at any and all times to
roaming bands or to anti-Semitic bat
talions of the Petlura army.
when the Bolsheviki win over some
Of the Petlura regiments by Bolshevik
propaganda the Petlura regiments go
! right on massacring and robbing the
! Jews; indeed their ignorant mud
: died brains confuse the pogrom agita-
ton with the Socialist propaganda of
the Bolshevilxi. The war cry or motto
Of the Bolsheviki army was You have
three enemies, the officers Of the White
. Guard, the land owning nobility and
the bourgeoise.' But the White Guard
X officers and the nobility could not be
, found, for they had fed from Ukrajnia
long ago. and the rich bourgeois mad
also fed. The only kind of bourgeois
J which the Petiura battaiions--those re-
Gently converted to Bolshevism--did
find were the poor. wretched Jewish
J tradesmen, and these were mistaken
J for bourgeois The words Jew and
bourgeois became mixed up so that the
, Jews were robbed and butchered
: This happened all the wore easily be-
cause It seemed 10 Petlura's ignorant
followers that the Bolshevik agitation
was the same as that of Petlura, who
told them to attack noblemen and
: Jews.
War Made bandits.
"The peasant bands that make the
pogroms in Ckrainia are not made UP
, Of the ordinary peAsants from the
various armies. There pogrom makers
, have been out Of orderly. peaceful oc-
equations during five years of war, and
In addition they are unaccustomed to
order on account of the frequent
, changes in the Government Ukrainia
; has had eight different governments
, in the last two years. and as a result
1 the masses and the armies have no
faith or respect for any government
: A battalion or whole regiment some
, times breaks away from the existing
, Government and. goes roaming and
footing and killing.
1T is seldom that the real peasants
participate IN the pogroms Some
times the real peasants even come to
n the rescue of Jewish victims"
= The picture of central Europe pre-
h sented by Abraham Cahan, editor Of
g the Jetoish Daily For,card, who has
= Just returned to New York after ten
d months in Europe &nd three months
1 in Germany, Austria and Poland, IL
D equally terrible.
: "Monarchism," said Mr. Cahar, "in
I eastern Europe is absolutely dead.
: am convinced OF II profoundly after
p interviewing all sorts of people in all
q walks of life. walked the streets
r hours at a time asking about this.
did come across some people who were
: very much interested in monarchism,
n but I found that these were chiefly
n underworld people who have been &C
A customed to living on tips such as the
walters in the big hotels. In Ger
a many and Austria 1t seems that only
:. those people who are like the walters
in having been educated in bowling
: end scraping and In dancing atten-
ton on men have any love for the old
10 regime.
y 1.-THE Junkers are lying low. There
:, is friction only between the Socialist:
a and the middle class people. No one
Cares raise his voice in favor of Jun
:, kerism. I remember one day wen
= up to a big over-fat German manu-
. facturer saying to myself. Now II
!, hear a defence of the old regime
said something about the old regime'
"a prospects not seeming very bright
" and the German waved his fist In tn
I, air, exclaiming: ia, ia! The mon
& archism is played out once for ALL
N when say the tip-takipg class o
"A central Europe is the only one tina
" seems to have any love for monarch!
IA I'm not referring to Hungary and Pc
land There the walters won't taxi
J. tips because sentiment is keen agains
3 II. Even those who want to take tip
O. daren't do 1t for fear of their fellows
l. was surprised to find that even II
"a Austria tipping is looked down upoi
ly by classes that used to accept tips.
- "In Austria they now have tn
Va VoIkestoehr, small army made up en-