New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Jews i'm Russia
NearExtinctiO11
From Pogroms
Thousands Flee to Borders
as Wave of Anti-Semitism
Spreads; 10000 Families
on Rumanian Frontier
Budenny Forces Accused
Relief Worker Says Sole
Hope of Prosecuted Is to
Reach U.S.or WestEurope
Special Cable to The 1,rihuna

Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, July 19.-The entire Jewish
population of Russia is threatened with
determination, and the only thing that
will save them is wholesale immigra-
ton to western Europe and the United
States. according to DIR. Kreinen,
prominent Jewish social worker in
soviet Russia, who has just arrived
here from Moscow. He has been en-
gagged in an effort to coordinate the
work Of Jewish relief organizations in
Russia.
DIR. Kreinen until recently was chair
man of the central Jewish relief com
mlttee for giving aid to the victims of
pogroms. He was attached to the office
of the commissariat for national minor
tiles in Moscow. Under the Kerensky
government he was chairman of the
central bureau of all the Jewish relief
societies in Russia. DR.. Kreinen il
going to London fortified with a mass
of documents bearing on the tragedy
which has overtaken 100000 Jews in
Russia.
Series of Pogroms Raging
The pogrom wave has now entered
Great Russia itself, coming from the
Ukraine into White Russia" said DR..
Kreinen to-day. "a series of cruel
pogroms is raging now north Of the
Volga and in the Province of Smolensk.
The Jewish people can see no salvation.
Complete anarchy reigns in the small
towns and villages of the south, and it
IS only in the larger cities that any
thing like order prevails.
"The famine which is sweeping over
Russia is expected to aggravate this
condition. The situation is explained
by the fact that the peasants refuse to
accept the tenets of Bolshevism and
have never exhibited such strong prop
erty instincts as at present.
According to reports by the Soviet
government, the pogroms are perpe-
trated by irresponsible rowing band 8
made up of former soldiers from the
armies of Petlura and Balachovitz, but
the fact is that these bands could not
exist if they were not supported by the
peasants. Stray detachments of the
Red army are joining these bands. The
regular troops Of the Soviet govern
ment are powerless to stem the tide of
anti-Semitism.
The recent transfer of General
Budenny's cavalry to White Russia was
designed to check the pogrom wave
there. Instances have been reported,
however, in which Budennys own
troops joined In carrying out pogroms.
Jews Fleeing to Frontier
THE Jewish people throughout Rus
STA are in panic. They are forsakino
their homes and property and fleeing
toward the frontiers. More than 40 900
Jewish families are now huddled along
the Rumanlan border, where they are
ilvlng amid unspeakable SURROUNDINGS
AT least a hundred among them are
dying daily. Not single child under
seven years old survives to-day. The
only relief from the present situation
will be in wholesale emigration of the
Jews from Russia. The Jews cannot
rise to their feet in Russia and are
doomed to perish unless their brethren
In the rest of the world come to their
aid.
Even though it were possible to
break up the bands responsible for the
pogroms in Russia, it would be quite
impossible to stamp out the wave of
anti-Semitism that is enveloping many
sections of the Communists. When we
consider the growth of anti-Semitism
in Russia on the one hand and the
economic policies Of the Soviet govern