Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-01
NO STOPPACE Of
PERSECUTION Of
JEWS IN EUROPE
Poland and Hungary Con-
tinue Anti Semitic Excess
es;; Hundreds Shot With
out Trial, Rothenberg Says
(By The Associated Pressl

New York, Sept. 30.-COntinued
of Jews, with bloodshed
and cruelty, in Poland and Hun
enberg, chairman of the executive
committee of the Provisional Amer
lean Jewish congress. who returned
here recently from the Jewish
World relief conference in Carts
bad. Mr. Rothenberg declares that
attacks on Jews in Poland have
ceased at no time since the armis-
tice. He says that while anti-Se-
mite excuses in Poland were miti-
gated by the protest meetings held
in America assaults on persons
and property in a smaller degree
continued throughout Poland"
Gradually these assaults as
sumed larger proportions" said
Mr.. Rothenberg, 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 deputies In the Po-
lish parliament appealed to the
minister of war and Minister Pres
ident Witos, who promised that
lHcY WOulu ldht SltpS W sup tItoS
outrages but nothing was done"
Jews in Polish Armies.
Mr.. Rothenberg said that during
the advance of the soviet armies on
Warsaw the Jews readily enlisted
in the Polish armies, but they were
attacked and prosecuted by the
Poles and were given the most
filthy and mental work to per,
form" The Jews complained to
the military authorities but the
persecution was not mitigated, he
charged.
Immediately after the first vic
tories all Jewish soldiers were
driven from the various fronts, "
Mr.. Rothenberg asserted. their
ammunition was taken away. their
uniforms removed and they were
put under guard as though they
were offenders. The Polish soldi RS
began to regard the Jewish sol
diers 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 after
ward said they killed holsheviks'
This was a lie. In order to cover
these outrages the minister of war
issued an announcement that a
large number Of armed Jewish boil
sheviks 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 thai
these statements could not be sub
stantiated.
Mr.. Rothenberg charges that the
minister Of war and Minister Pres
ident Witos refused to see Jewish
! delegations who called upon them
to complain about an-Semitic out
RACES. 1.-THE spirit Of the Jews ir
Poland is being utterly crushed By
these terrible events and they fee
that they cannot much longer peal
up unless these terrible excuses are
stopped" he added. --.
According to Mr.. Rothenberg
800 Jews have been murdered II
Hungary from December, 1919, tt
June, 1920, and he charges that tn
officers and soldiers of the white
army are the chief fomenters o
anti Semitism. He said that thu
young nationalist" declared tina
they were willing to stop the 20
groms provided laws We're enactet
that would destroy the Jew
economically.
This is now being DONE" salt
Mr.. Rothenberg. Laws have beel
passed Furnishing profiteerlng D.
flogging But the producers ar
not affected by this law, it Is onl'
the middlemen, which means tn
Jews Those who are found guilt
are flogged and put in concentra
ton camps and exiled."
Ousting of Jewish civil serVic
} employees in Hungary is also report
ed by Mr.. Rothenberg. Laws ar
also being passed specifically oil
rected against the Jews withou
| mentioning them" he said, las TO
, instance licenses of all persons en-
gagged in commercial or industria
/ pursuits are revoked and apphca
tion must be made for new license
which may be issued at the discre
tion of the department in charge
such licenses are not being granite
to Jews, thus utterly preventih
, them from pursuing their forme
, occupations, A law was passe
, that only those belonging to mill
: tary formations could be admitte
: to universities. AS Jews are not a.
f lowed to belong to these forma
tions, Jewish students are unapl
to get into the universities. Man
= of them have been compelled
= go to neighboring countries IN OF
q der to pursue their studies and ar
| experiencing terrible want an
q .,,f