The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-02
SLAUGHTER JEWISH
CHILDREN IN POLAND

The Tag Warheit, the Jewish daily
! newspaper of New York city oil
! Wednesday May 2Sth, reports the fol-
/ lowing:
! "All the savage atrocities which
! have been perpetrated against hui
/ mainly and has startled the world. are
/ insignificant and as nothing, in com
/ parision with the outrages which the
/ pogrom leaders in Poland are com
hitting daily and have demonstrated
( in the recent program in Proscurow
! The Vienna Morgen Zeitung OF
| April 24th. report the details of these
programs which startle the magma
ton and quicken the heartbeat OF
! Godfearing people,
The Hebrew school which was
situated in the Froscurow district
where several hundred little children
were attending their studies was at
/ lacked by a band of cold blooded
murderers who battered down the
doors of the schoolhouse and heart
! lessly ravaged and killed the inno-
cent little children who knew of no
! wrong which they had committed and
could not have so sinned as to war
rent the punishment they were given.
The dead bodies of these children
We're thrown from the windows upon
the street. a,.-z-
In another school on one Of The
streets of this district these bandits
found other children of the Jewish
faith, who had made their escape
from the scene of the other atrocities.
These children were shamefully
treated, ManF-of them We're bay
onetted and their bodies were carried
through the streets on the ends of the
bayonettes lifefess.
Mothers who recognized the life
less bodies of their children hanging
from the bayonettes, fell to the feet
of the aSsasins and pleaded for com
passion and for the return To them Of
The bodies of their children, These
poor women were slaughtered as were
their innocent offspring.
In a Jewish hospital on the
'komannetzkiya street. the raiders
without regard To the condition of
the sick and the feeble committed
rape upon the women inmates and
aged them. finally putting them
to death.
"At the home for the aged, they
tortured beyond expression in words.
and too gruesome to he pictured. the
old inmates. Limbs were separated
from their bodies, and other parts of
their bodies We're so distigured and
cut up that most of them came to
their death instantly,
IA the royal schooihouse the in
structors were ordered TO indicate
and produce every child OF the Jewish
faith, THE children were tined rp hv
the pogrom leaders ana were shot TO
death,
1T appears tina, their special OBJ
ject in these raids and cowardly pur-
suit was the manning and the killing
of women and children
In the principal streets of the
s. ~ - F i,sf
children were dragged TO their
death"
The truth of these atrocities has
been brought to the attention of the
Peace Conference and civilization OF
the world. . II is almost beyond hui
man possibility to enumerate the
many outrages or to picture in writ
ing the gruesome happenings in that
dark country which now seeks the
charter of freedom and political in
dependence at the hands of the civil
lied nations OF the world.
Protests against such inhuman acts
have been organized in every city Of
the United States and Great Britain.
Richmond will respond TO the call
ana present IN numbers at the
ass-meetlng at John Marshal High
School tonight, -where the following
speakers Will address the gathering
Governor Davis, Congressman Monta-
que, Prof. ID. II. Anderson. DIR Doug
las Freeman, Rabbi l.. y. Caiisch
DIR. Lazarus karp, John Hirshch berg