The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
PERSECUTION OF
| jews CONTINUES
SAYS R0THENBERC

persecution Of Jews, with bloodshed
and cruelty, in Poland and Hungary
ds reported by Morris Rothenberg,
chairman of the Executive Commit
Hew1sh Congress, who returned here
Eeeentfy from the Jewish World Re
lief Conference in Carlsbad, Mr..
Eews in Poland. have ceased at no
thine since the armistice. He says
that while anh-Semetic excuses in
meetings held in America, assaults
upon persons and property in
smaller degree continued throughout
Poland
larger proportions" sai6 Mr.. Roth
benberg, until within the last few
months Jews have found it unsafe to
walk in the streets. Conditions came
tiles in the Polish parliament ap-
pealed- to the Minister of War and
Minister Witos, who promised that
Fthey would take steps Ito stop these
Mr.. Rothenberg said that during
tthe advance of the Soviet armies on
WARSAW the Jews readily enlisted in
1.-THE Polish armies, butt that -fhey were
attacked and prosecuted by the Poles
land were given the most filthy and
menial work to perform" The Jews
ties but the persecution was not miti-
gated, he charged
Immediately after the first VIC
tories all Jewish soldiers were driven
from the various fronts" Mr.. Roth
ienberg asserted, their ammunition
was taken away, their uniforms re-
tnoved and they were put under
guard as though they were offenders;
The Polish soldiers began to regard
1.-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 was a lie. In
order to cover these outrages the
Minister of War issued an announce
,ment that a large number of arme
Jewish Bolsheviks were found in
many cities.
the Poles and was not mentioned In
the dispatches for the outside world
because It was apparent that these
statements could not be substan-
ltiated."
Mr.. Rothenberg charges that the
Minister of War and Minister Presi-
dent Witos refused to see Jewish
DELEGATIONS who called upon them to
irages. THE spirit Of the Jews in
Poland is being utterly crushed by
these terrible events and they fee
that they cannot much longer beal
up unless these terrible excuses are
istcpped," he added.
! According to Mr.. Rothenberg, 300
Jews have been murdered in Hun
gary from December, 1913, to June
1920, and he charges that the Officers
and soldiers of the White Army are
the chief fomenters of anti-Semitfsm
He said that the young national
ists'' declared that they were willing
to stop the pogroms provided law
, were enacted that would destroy the
Jews economically.
This is now being DONE" said Mr.
Rothenberg. Laws have been passed
furnishing profiteering by flogging
= But the producers are not affected
by this law, it is only the middle
who are found guilty are f1ogged anC
put in concentration camps ant
exiled."
Ousting of Jewish civil-service en-
pEoyes in Hungary is also reported
. by Mr.. Rothenberg. Claws are ais
being passed specifically directe,
against the Jews without mentioning
them" he said, "aS for instance Ii
censes of all persons engaged in com
mercial or industrial pursuits are re
voked and application must be mad
for new licenses which may be issue
at the discretion of the departing n
in charge. Such licenses are not be
ing granted to Jews, thus utterly pre-
venting them from pursuing thei
former occupations. A law was pass
ed that only those belonging to mill
tary formations could be admitted t
universities AS Jews are not al
flowed to belong to these formation.
Jewish students are unable to ge
into the universities. Many of ther
have been compelled to go to neigh
boring countries in order to pursu
their studies and are experiencin
=, terrible want and suffering"