The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-02
REPORTS THE MASSACRE
OF JEWS IN UKRAINE
Cable Message from Leo Motkin Says
One Hundred and Twenty Thous-
and Have Been Slaughtered

and Have Been Slaughtered
New York, Aug. 1-Massacres in |
the Ukraine, in which message sent |
from Paris by Leo Motkin, Secretary
Of the Committee of the Jewish Dele
cations at the Peace Conference, to !
Louis Marshall, the President OF that
committee, who is now in this city.
This cable message, which was given
ous yesterday, is as follows:
Paris, July 80, 1919.
Marshall, New York:
Zuckerman arrived and confirms
former communications. He reports
new and terrible pogroms, which oc-
Cured during June at Kaminetz, Pod
DISK, Kitaigorod, Ourinine. etc. The
latest news is certified by three
rabbits and by other Jewish repres-
entatives of Khotne. know these
men, who are from the Ukraine. They
state that altogether 10000 have
! been killed Ia prosku, u a,one
{ 9G4 inhabitants and numerous passing
people have been killed and 200
wounded. Among the killed were l.
500 school children. Ukrainian Juda'
ism fears total determination. 1t is
impossible to check the exact figures.
In al of the pogroms undoubtedly
dozens of the usands have been massa-
cred.
tSigned) MOTK1M.
The Ukrainians reported guilty Of
L.. xrot.
with the Poles, who have been largely
exonerated by the reports of Henry
Morgenthau and others of pogroms
attributed to them The alleged mas
sacres CT Jews by Poles at Pinsk oc-
Cured when Poles were passing thru
the city to fight he Ukrainians. Mr.
i,arshall made the following state
nent:
Similar reports reached me while :
was n Paris which came indirectly
f."m the Ukraine and from men of
nigh standing and responsibility Every
enoit was made 10 pre- cure detailed
Information. but own, TO the sale
CT ;n.rchy which pr walls IN Tho | k
, r.n' and the .,"iculty Of conmuni.
, -, II it has bee imp u -
orr .rch details as aIa inl crtan' l
desiable. 1t is, however, unlr,i,'ud
that y e massacre that have taken
pace have bee,. principally perpetual
= I'd by large oTseE..r,. ba Is II RIB
bers, one CT them under the leader
ship of General Gregorieff, whose
death was reported a few weeks ago
Those familiar with Ukrainian con
, ditions regard the situation of the
jews who live there as precarious so
long as the chaotic conditions which
: now prevail shall continue
The only hope for relief is to be
found in the speedy Establishment. OF
= suong and liberal yovornmen- an
the requirement. that such govern.
inent shall as condition. If being re-
!, coEnized by the allied aud ass D. .aed
powers give adequate guarantees for
the protection of the lives, liberty and
property OF all the inhabitants. All OF
the reports which have received ccin
eidc Iii their estimates OF the mum
Der OF the victims.
W hile It is quite Likely that the
q estinla -es may be excessive, and
!. ardenty hope that it is, | neverthe
less beneve from ali the intormatio,
mat has come 10 me that the mum
!. Ders VIII be found TO run in the tens
,. OF thousands. nave learned that Iii,
french Government mas seat CON
# mission into the Ukraine TO investl
|. gate conditions, and it is probable thai
y lVur COMMITTEES vii likewise under
d take an inquiry into conditions in the
:. hope OF helping the survivors and the
presenting 10 the proper authorize.
an accurate accOun. Oh the Iacts :,
tnat II may be made the basis of act
z ion TO put an end to these atroci
2 ,ies. me parallel between condit
G icns in Armenia and the UKranle !,
t iIust s.aftlIng.
he Zionist Organization of Ameri
t ca Issued the following statement yes
teruay:
Justice Louis D. Brandeis of tn,
: United states Supreme Court na
to.APie.eu "a tour VI taies inc, s..u /.
AZ" ~ toute t1f falis. ms par,
wn.Sn inC.uded JACOB Defiaas, ,1Ie.
uuVe Secretary of the Zionist Organ
."atiUn vi America, vi wnlcn Jusuce
Diai1AeiS is Honorary fresident. ana
frolSssor -A4t.CL 1IhI.c1a VI a..
University Oh Waves, ana time,
Dii.ish Under Secretary, visited Jaffa
IJeFSSu4enl, Iel -AyiT ana over LM..,,,