The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-09-30
CONTINUED PERSECUTION
OF JEWS Is REPORTED


reported by Morris Rothenberg, chair
man of the Executive Committee of
the Provisional American Jewish Con-
gress, who returned here recently
from the Jewish World Relief Confer
ence in Carlsbad. Mr.. Rothenberg
declares tina tattacks on Jews in Po-
land have ceased tho time since the
armistice. He says that while anti
Semetic excuses in Poland were nit
igated by the protest meetings held in
America, assaults upon persons and
property in smaller degree contin-
ued throughout Poland"
Gradually these assaults assumed
larger proportions said Mr. Rothen-
burg, until within the last few
months Jews have found it unsafe to
walk in the streets. Conditions came
to such a state that the Jewish depu-
ties in the Polish parliament APP
pealed to the Minister of War and
Minister President Witos, who prom
ised that they would take steps to
stop these outrages but nothing was
DONE"
| Mr.. Rothenberg said that during
the advance of the soviet armies on
Warsaw the Jews readily enlisted in
the Polish armies but that they were
attacked and prosecuted by the Poles
and were given the most filthy and
mental work to perform" The Jews
complained to the military authorities
but the persecution was not mitigat-
ed, he charged.
Immediately after the first victor
les all Jewish soldiers were driven
from the various fronts" Mr.. Rothen-
berg asserted, their ammunition was
taken away, their uniforms removed
and they were put under guard as
though they were offenders. The Pol
ish soldiers began to regard the Jew
ish soldiers as criminals. Every time
the Poles took city they killed Jews
who came their way, and numbers OF
old Jews were shot without trial. The
officers in charge afterward said that
they killed bolsheviks. This was a
lie. In order to cover these outrages
the Minister Of War issued an an
nouncement that a large number OF
armed Jewish bolsheviks were found
in many cities. This information was
fed only to the Poles and was not
mentioned in the dispatches for the
outside world because it was apparent
| that these statements could not be
substantiated."
! Mr.. Rothenberg charges that the
Minister Of War and Minister Presi
dent Wltos refused to see Jewish del
. egations who called upon them t.
complain about anti-Semetic out
RACES. "The spirit of the Jews IL
I Poland is being utterly crushed b,
these terrible events and they fee
I that they cannot much longer bea
up unless these terrible excuses ar,
stopped" he added.
According to Mr., Rothenberg, 30,
Jews have been murdered in Hungar,
from. December, 1919, to June, 1920
and he charges that the officers ant
soldiers of the White Army are tn,
chief fomenters of anti-Semitism Fl,
said that the young nationalists" de
clared that they were willing to stol
tn epogroms provided laws were en-
acted that would destroy the Jew
| economically.
I This is now being DONE said MI
! Rothenberg. Laws have been passe,
Furnishing profteering by fiogging
But the producers are not affected b,
tbs law, it is only the middlemen
which means the Jews. Those VIII,
are found guilty are logged and pu
in concentration camps and exiled.
!! Ousting of Jewish civil-service EN-
! ployes in Hungary is also reported b,
Mr. Rothenberg. Laws are also be
! ing passed specifically directe,
; against the Jews without mentioning
them" he said, as for instance Ii
censes of all persons engaged CON
mercial or Industrial pursuits are re
! yoked and applications must be mad
I for new licenses which may be issue
! at the discretion of the department
! in charge, Such licenses are not be
ng granted to Jews, thus utterly pre-
! venting them from pursuing thei
! former occupations. A law wa
( passed that only those belonging I
. military formations could be admit
| ted to universities AS Jews are no
: allowed to belong to these forms
, tons, Jewish students are unable I
get into the universities. Many q
! them have been compelled to go I
' neigh hOrinp countries on nc1o, /.