The Denver Jewish news., 1919-10-22
HERMAN BERNSTEIN IN POLAND ,7ZZDS ET7DEf7CE
OF POGROMS AND OTHER ATTACKS OF JEWS


concerned that under no circumstances
viii it be permitted for evlldoers tP wrong
any Polish citizens.
Against the offenders shall act with
all energy and severity"
On June - the Minister of Military AZ
fairs was obliged to issue the following
order. No. 152. to, the aruy:-
1.-THE regrettable incidents which oc-
lcurred In Solec St. Warsaw. on June ~.
las the result OF the condemnable behavior
,of some individuals disgraeing the uni
form Of the Polish soldier compel me 70
repeat the orders issued previously In con-
sequence of excuses perpetrated by SOL
dtsrs on the Jewish population.
ITO this end order as follows:-
"a. In case of excuses committed
against civilians by soldiers the nearest
military authorities will intervene imme-
distely with all energy in order to suppress
the disturbances.
"b. All persons suspected of having taken
part in such an incident Will be arrested
on the spot and with the corresponding
report be brought before the nearest
martial court.
&C. Every disturbance and the orders
which will have been issued in the mat
ter must be Immediately reported to me.
ii. Soldiers from the detachments to
which the offenders belong are to be de-
prived of the right to leave the barracks
when off duty until the sentence Of the
offenders has been pronounced.
=. III COHioTuiity Win
issued the commanders will instruct the
soldiers about their duties toward the
civilian population about the equal rights
of all citizens and the penalties imposed
In cases of transgressions of civil rights.
Soldiers Duties Limited.
"It is not the duty of soldiers to adj
minister justice or to inflict penalties for
offences against the state or for profiteer-
ing.
''rheir duty is limited to an eventual
arrest of the persons under suspicion and
to reporting the occurrence to the nearest
military or police authority. which will
issue orders provided to the court
ANY other procedure will be considered
as crime and punished with all severity.
"A1l subaltern soldiers should be further
enlightened about the organization of pro-
vocateurs paid by our nelghboring enc
mics. and their ways and means Of propa-
ganda aiming at the weakening of our
state. A special stress should be put on
the efforts Of the provocateurs. which. by
influencing the soldiers. endcavor to cause
trouble and excuses directed. not against
the external enemy, but against the civil
population of this country or its separa te
classes.
SOLDIERS must be taught that excuses
organized, by provocateurs and in which.
through. their ignorance. they are induced
to participate. bring against the Polish
people the accusation of Intolerance. and
are especially harmful at a time when wa
afe busy building up our state. Should
offences by soldiers occur again the in,-
mediate and Indirect commanders will be
held. responsible for the lack Of necessary
Influence and required discipline In the
detachment subordinate to them.
II. The Attorney General of the Army
will issue orders that in each case Of
fences committed by soldiers against civil
iiasis- the proceedings be Instituted i'm
mediately and the sentences pronounced in
the course of seven days. and a copy of
the same submitted to me.
I'm case of a sentence of guilty, its con-
tents are to. be published in the orders OF
the day.
I 'The present order to be brought to the
knowledge OF all detachments. authorities
and Institutions,
General ConaManaePs ResRensIhIe.
The general commanders of the dis
tricts are made responsible for its strict
execution.
ITO be sent for further acton to the
general. commands of the districts of
Warsaw, Lublin. Kelce. Cracow, Lwow.
Lodz. to the headquarters of the Polish
Army the command Of General Haller's
army and to the command of the Polish
Army, Poznan.
1.-THE Minister for Army Affairs
"JozEF LESNIEWSKI.
Lit. General"
The following is the report made by the
Government District commissary in
District of Chelm to the Minister of For
eign Affairs in reply to q request for Of
fetal information REGARDING disturbances
in Chc1m on June 3 and a.
Government District commissary in
Chelm.
Il. CT 2s-P
tn tho matter of Mr. Schiper's. NJ p,
and other Interpretations in the Diet con-
corning anti-Jewisk disturbances.
"Chelm. July 4. 1919.
To the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Warsaw
No. 6isl+-PPS. 1e63-l. have the honor to
state that reports relative to anti-Jcwish
disturba noes which took place in CheIm
on the Sd and 4th Of June were despatched
by the Commissary in accordance with
the respective circulars to- the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs on the 18th of June
L.S9 Up. FIJI
Rtnsse Placed Unpn Jews.
1t wasss since the beginning of the Aus
TRAN occupation, as well as at the time
when my predecessor. Mr. Boro"' was
in office, that the Jews. amounting here
to seventy-five per cent of the population,
organized and instigated by their leaders.
Dr. Fenstert.au and Kanfer, late Austrian
officers, began to exercise In their reln-
tions with the Christian population that
sort of aggressiveness which caused even
a just Irritation among those who. least Of
all. could. have been reckoned as i'll dis
posed toward them.
Soldiers from General Haller's army.
and ordinary soldiers later on, hearing
these complaints, took the Christian pcpu-
iation under their protection and occa-
committed insignificant offences.
"On June it came to blows between
recruits and the Jews. The energetic in
reference Of the police. sendarmerie and
militia. which Immediately followed.
stopped the disturbances.
ut has been ascertained that eleven
Jews and two recruits suffered slight in
juries. Windows of a Jewish pra yer house
were broken. Several recruits broke into