Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-13
$4,000 JEWS KILLED
IN SAVAGE POGROMs
Carnival Of Butchcry Reported by
the Zionist Organization of
America.
MASS ACREs IN UKRAINE
Helpless Population Is Reported
Murdered Wholesale by Petlura's
Soldiers and by Bolshcvist Forces
us We'll.

NEW YORK, Oct l2.-The following
statement was Issued by tho Zionist
Organization Of America, SIS Fifth Ave-
nue.:
Authentic reports have reached
this country OF a series of massacres
which have ragged in the Ukraine since
last November. which have resulted in
the slaughter of 10000 Jews. Wlole
the soldiery of General Petlura, the
anti Bolshevist crusader and General
Grigorien. whose officers in many
cases were members of the Black
hundred which won rnurdcrous no
toriety during the CZarist regime.
a number of Dogroms were carried
out also by Bolshevist troops. in spite
Of rigorous measures by their officers,
who shot down hundreds of them, ac-
cording to these reports. which are
made by Meir Grossman. member of
Ukraine. and DIR. a. Koralnik. Both
OF hcse men. who made their way
10 London from kief in order to make
,heir report are well-known journal
ISIS The responsibility for the re-
ports of this staggering crime against
helpless people Is borne by the
Jewish National Secretariat and by the
ZIONIST organization of America.
Stay In Thirty-EIght Towns
Attached to the rcpor, is list OF
onirty-eight towns in Southern Russia
thousand and five hundred were killed
at Proskurov. Two thousand were
Killed in Eliz1bethgrad. There the mob
.hrew bombs into the cellars where
"hoie families had taken refuge.
In Zabakritch cle butchery lasted
TWO days. The Jews had locked them
selves in their houses. rhe bandits
entered and in grim silence struck the
Jews down ono after another At
Icherkassi 500 werc killed. At Litirc
too. The whole population of Bobri.
mated, except one old woman and five
children. The Jewish communities OF
koublitch. Alcxandrovna, Medtiboge
a RadomysI were wiped out. A,
ilaoidicvkn all the men. 800 in num-
ocr. were killed. Tie town of NovI-
Misgcvode was set afre and 200 killed
souF hundred were killed 1t Freschtinc
ana 300 at Harssine.
inc report sets forth that Mt the
present moment the Ukraine is divided
INTO the following regions OF power:
kief. Tchernigon. parts OF Pcdoi,a-
Noihyn!a and Ekaterinoslav.
Denikin holds Kharkon. Kherson.
rpoStnee 'n os Iimsa and parts OF tne
- Between both regions Petlura
the so-called Ukrainian directorate,
9 eeGHupies parts OF the Provinces OF po-
- In the whole OF tho Ukraine
region there are large robber bands OF
various dimensions
Month of Terror
The whole period from the end ~
november, 1918 is filed with series
or posroms. They were comnit,cd
r pariis oy the troops. parity by the
lower middle classes. and also by the
peasants and workmen. The PRINCIPAL
tcniprits were the troops of petlura a nd
be!onS to the Black Hundred. as well
az countless bands. The Bolshevist
troops have also committed many
posroins. hut their military command
eers took rigorous measures aeains,
Them. and had many hundreds of sol
diers shot who had taken par. in m.
excesses But the military authorities
semitic feeling to the extent OF re-
raining from sending the Jewish com
mission to the front.
Three main periods OF the pogrons
can be distinguished. The FIRST neriod
was during the victorious campaigns
OF tetlu,a "a, against the He.man No
includes particularly tie terrible po-
Froms OF Ihitomir and Ovrutch. The
second period was from February 10
ApraL 1919; when the Petlura troops
shevists and countless bands arose.
Particularly d!sa strous was the two
days massacre at Proskuron. Febru-
scnki was the organizer I, has been
absolutely established and registered
,nat !. 'ou Jews were murdered on this
occasion os IN many cases entire fami-
lies were con- pleteiy wiped out.
Aid Given Survivors,
When the Central Relief Committee
leaned nssIs,e OF me po 6do, il sent com
Gurof to assist the SURVIVORS. but the
comm issioner often did not know TO
, Thom ne should give the money. as
AT FNtshitin, near Proskuroff. 400
Jews were killed, An especially VI terri ~
elo affair was the holding up OF a
ity OF Mcnschikorie. near Kief, when
1o3 Jews were seized on board and
drowned. Over sixty corpses were re-
covered.
The worst period has been raging
since April OF this year. The troops
S S Pa o deh sod
Equally terrible were the excuses at
Eiizabethgrad where about 1000 were
killed AZ Trostientietz there was
peasants rose against the Bolshevis;
authorities the Christian section OF the
Gar.son went over to their side and
Thereupon all the jewish inhabitants
of the little town-down to those who
ed into a communal building and kept
In prison there for two days, and
after prolonged dcfiberations were
murdered More than 400 oersons were
then slain.
Exact Record aInde.
The Jewish National Secretariat has
pcrroms from the end ref0e Of n %ov a ,ae
1915, down TO May IS. 1919. Pogroms
and bloody excuses are recorded TO
have taken place in 1877 places With
regard to another forty or fifty places
it cannot be stated definitely what di-
mansions the excuses assumed. as the
secretariat is unable to get into com
rnunication with them. The total num-
Der of Jews who are said to have been
killed in these ,poEroms is from 10000
to $4,000. a long list of names of
those murdered is in the hands of the
national secretariat.
The figures given are quite reliable.
and probably even fall short OF the
actual truth.
"The Jews tried 10 organize self
defense: but this was not permitted by
the Rolshevists. who urged the Jews
10 join the Red army If they wished
TO defend Jewish lives The pogroms
were everywhere marked by the same
horrible features, bestial murder lust
and an increditable passion for de-
struction.
under the Bolshevist regime moth
ing has been left of national auton-
onTy. and the numerous Jewish instr
tutions- not only the communities and
no local antOnOmtsf hodjas brt o1c