The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
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New York Tanuary 1S.-Details Of ex- eesses committed against the Jews in TO
 land. in which z52 members of the race
 were the victims of mob violence, are
 given in the report of the mission heade
 by Henry Morsenthau, which inyestisatec
 these outbreaks and which was made
 public here tonight The mission which
 was appointed Jy Secretary Lansing o;'
 the request of Ignace Jan Palere&shi.
 then president Of the Polish council of
 ministers. was composed of. i1t addniar
 to Mir. Morgepthau. Brig Gen. Edgar
 Calvin and Homer Johnson. It arrived fo
 Warsaw on Ja;y ls, 1913, and remained in
 Pollard for two months, during which time 1t traveled by automobiles more than
 25oo miles, making a personal investisaties,
 in every town where and-Jewish out
 breaks had beeh reported
 While admitting. that in eight specific cases the Jews had been made the tata t
 of outsrage, piliage and murder, the re-
 port of the mission declares that 1t wciAa be unfair to place the blame for -hses
 excesses upon the Polish nation as a whole.
 Just as the Jews" the report says, would resent bc'ng condemned as race for the action Of few of their ande- sirable co-relisionists so it would le cor respondingly unfair to condemn the To- fish nation as a whole for the violence committed by uncontrolled troops or f5eal moos. These excesses were apparently rat meditated. for if they had beer part of a pre-aonceived Nan the number of Killed would have rul into the thousands in- stead of amounting to about 2S0. It is be- lieve1 that these excesses were the result of 9 widesprsa1 | anti-semitic prejudice, aggravated by the belief that the Jewish inhabitants were politically hostile to the Polish state.''
 The eight cases of mob murder which are given in detail occurred at the towns of Kieloe, Leinberg, Pinsk, Lida. Nilno KoeIbussowa. Czestochowa and Minsk on different dates for November Ii, 1918 to August 9, 1919 The most serious occuTre at I4emberg, Iinsk and Wilnc. In the for mer town on November 21, 1918, the re- por4 says, gensral rioting and disorder
 took place. following the collapse of the Austrian empire, and was aggravated bN the presence of some. 15,0A0 uniformed de- serteis in the civ and numerous criminals released by the t'krainians from the local fails. During these disorders 3s houses were burned, the synagogue was de stroye6 and e4 Jews were killed. Order was restored by the formation of offi- cers' patrols tnder experienced leaders and since then the Polish government has sentenced a large number of rioters tc varying terms If Imprisonment.
 The outbreak in .Pinsk occurred or Apil :, 1919, when hand of Polish sol diers. with the official permission of the town commander, Major Luszynsk,r, ar rested 75 Jews of both sexes on the groun I that they were holding bolshevist meet ing. Thirty-five of the prisoners, the re port says, were shot with scant deib- eration and no trial whatever. Early the next morning three wounded victims were shot in cold blood as soon as life revealed itself n them" The report adds that the women prisoners were stripped and beaten so severely that several of them were bedridden for weeks after. Ii was aseertained that there was no basls for the charges of bolshevism brought against the victims and that none of the 1 offenders has ever been punished or ever i been tried Bolshevsm was also the ac. bcusat for on which the Wilno pogron was basel The outbreak occurred on-Apil i9 | 1919 af.er the Poles had taken the city 1 with a loss of , men killed in three days street fighting. In the same period ts Jews were Killed including four women 1 and roore than 2000 Jewish houses anf stores were footed with loss estimated 1 by the Jewish community at f0,G00,GE rubles In addition hundreds of Jews were deported, numbersof them being kept 1T | boxcars fer four days without fool ol water.
 1 The report deals at length with the causes Of the anti-semitic feeling in Po' land which is declared to be to large extent political, rather than racial or re | ligions.
 l Baliof that the Jews will be treated with justice by the Polish republic is ex- pressed by the report, which declares that "a new Polish constitution is nov | in the making