Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-29
Jews PROSECUTED IN
POLAND AND HUNGARY
Chairman Of Jewish Congress Says
Crueities Have Continued
Since Arnlistice.
nv Associated Prcss to Every Evcnint

ny Associated Press TO Evesy EVhHs
New York, Sept. 2S.-Continued per.
srrut,on of Jews, with bloodshed and
cruelty, in Poland and Hungary is report
I'd hy Morris Rothenberg, chairman of the
exc,,tive committee of the Provisional
Ansr,can-Jcwish Congsess, who returned
here r,ccntly from the Jewish World
Relief conference in Carlsbad. Mr..
Rothcnberg declares that attacks on
Jews in Poland have ceased at no time
since the armisticc. He says that while
anti-Serpctic excessses in Poland We're
mitigated by the protest meetings held
i'm America, assaults upon persons and
propcrty in a smaller degree continued
throughout Poland.
Gradually these assaults assumed
larger proportions" said Mr.. Rothen-
hrry, until within the last few months
Jews have found il unsafe to walk IN the
str,rts. Conditions came to such state
that the Jewish deputies in the Polish
Parliament appealed 20 the minister OF
war and Minister President Witos, who
promr.,d that they would take steps to
stop these outragos but nothing was
done"
Mr.. Rothenberg said that during the
s<}yance of the Soviet armies on warsaw
tn, .Lcxr readily enlisted in the Polish
r~r,,cut~d by the Poles and were gwen
The 'smost filthy and menial work to
perform" The Jews complained to the
military authorities, but the persecution
was not mitigated, be charged
ssfranodiatcly after th. first victories all
Lyvf.h soldiers were driven from the
various fronts" Mr.. Rothenberg asserted,
sSheir ammunition WAS taken away,
their uniforms removed and they were
put under guard as though they were
offenders. The Polish soldiers began to re-
gard the Jewish soldiers as criminals.
Every time the Poles took a 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 WIS
a lie. In order TO cover these outrages the
minister of war issued an announcement
that A large number of armed Jewish Boil
shrviks 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 sub
stantIated.
Mr. Rothonbcrg charges that the
minister Of war and Minister President
Witos refused 10 see Jewish delegations
who called upon them to complain about
anti.Sernetic outragas The spirit OF
IN, Jews in Poland is being utterly crush
ed bv these terrible events and they feel
that they cannot much longer bear up
unless these terrible excesscs are stopped,
he added
According to Mr.. Rothenberg, 500
Jews have been murdered in Hungary
from December, 1919, 10 June, 1920, and
he charges that the officers and soldiers Of
the White army are the chief fomenters
of anti-Semitism He said that the young
Nationalist" declared that they were
willing to stop the progroms provided laws
were enacted that would destroy the Jews
economlcaly.
'sThis is now being done" said Mr.
Rothenberg. Laws have been passed
puni.hinc prohteering by hogging. But
the producers are not affected by this law,
il is only the middlemen, which means the
Jews. Those who are found guilty are
fiogged and put in concentration camps
and exiled
Oustinc of Jewish civil service employees
in Hungary is also reported by Mr.. Roth
enberg Laws are also being passed
specifically directed against the Jews
without mentioning them, he said, "as
for instance licenses of all persons engaged
IN commercial or industrial pursuits are
revoked and application must be made for
new licenses whic may be issued at the
discretion of the department in charge
Such licenses are not being granted to
Jews, thus utterly preventing them from
pursuing their former occupations. A
law was passed that only those belonging
TO military formations could be admitted
TO universities. As Jews are not allowed
~ talopC IN these formations
students are unable 10 get into the uni
ver.ities Many of them have been COM
PEELED TO go TO neighboring countries in
order 10 pursue their studies and are ex-
periencing terrible want and suffering"