Evening star., 1920-09-27
REPORTS JEWISH
PEOPLE OUTRAGED
Rothenberg Declares Off
cials in Poland and Hungary
Will Not Stop Pogroms.

NEW YORK. September '7.-Con-
tinued persecution Of Jews. with
bloodshed and cruelty. in Poland ana
Hungary is reported by Morris Roth
enberg, chairman of the executive
committee of the provisional AIneri
can Jewish congress, who returned
mere recently from the Jewish world
Tehe1 conference in Carlsbad. Mr..
hothenberg declares that attacks on
Jews In Poland have ceased at no
time since the armistice. He says
mat while antiSemitic excesses in
fPland We're mitigated by the protest
meetings held in America, assaults
upon persons and property in a small
ef degree continued throughout Po-
land
Gradually these assaults assumed;
larger proportions" said Mr.. Rothen-
berg, until within the last few
months Jews have found it unsafe tc
walk IN the streets. Conditions came
70 such state that the Jewish depu
Ties IN the Polish parliament appealed
to the minister of war and Minister
PRESIDENT Witos, who promised that
they would take steps to stop these
outrages, but nothing was done"
Jews Loyal to Poland.
Mr. Rothenberg said that during the
advance of the soviet armies on War
saw the Jews readily enlisted in the
Polish armies. but that they were at
tacked and prosecuted by the Poles
and were given the most filthy and
menial work to perform" The Jews
complained to the military authori-
ties but the persecution was not miti-
gated, he charged
Mr Rothenberg charges that the
minister of war and Minister Presi-
q
delegations who called upon them to
complain about the anti-semitic out
RACES. THE spirit of the Jews in Po-
land is belng utterly crushed by these
terrible events and they feel that
they cannot much longer bear up un-
ped" he added.
According to Mr.. Rothenberg, 300
Jews have been murdered in Hungary
from December, 1919. to 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 nationaliStS" de-
clared that they were willing to stop
the pogroms. provided laws were en-
acted that would destroy the Jews
economically.
FIosged and Exiled.
This is now being DONE" said Mr..
Rothenberg. Laws have been pass
ed Furnishing profiteering by fiogging.
But the producers are not affected by
this law, it is only. the middlemen.
which means the Jews. Those who are
found guilty are fiogged and put in
concentration camps and exiled."
Ousting of Jewish civil service en-
ployes in Hungary is also reported
by Mr.. Rothenberg. Laws are also
being passed specifically directed
against the Jews without mentioning
them," he said, "as for instance Ii
censes of all persons engaged in COM
mercial or industrial pursuits are
revoked and application must be made
for new licenses which may be issued
at the discretion of the department
in charge. Such licenses are not being
granted to Jews, thus utterly pre-
venting 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 to belong to
these formations, Jewish students are
unable to get into the universities.
Many of them have been compelled to
go to neighboring countries in order
to pursue their studies and are ex-
periencing terrible want and suffer
ing"