The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1882-01-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

WARSAW.  The following figures have been published relative to the teeent anti-Jewish riots at Warsaw:— During the disturbances 292 Jewish taverns were destroyed ; 603 shops, restaurants, medical establish. merits, and places of worship; 493 private lodgings; 24 wounded Jews were treated in the Jewish hospital, of whom one died from his injuries; 3,100 persons Were arrested in connection with the riots, nearly the Whole of whom were confined in the Citadel of Warsaw. Official information shows that the riots extended beyond the confines of the city. The correspondent of the Novoe Vremya mentions that outbreaks occurred in several villages, the names ,cf which are given. The number of ruined families 4411 been officially estimated at over 5,000, and, if the average number in a family be taken at four persons, it Would appear that some 20,000 individuals have been ruined and deprived of the necessaries of life. Stories are circulated that the bodies of several Jews killed during the disturbances were concealed by the rioters in the cellars of houses and other places. The correspondent of the Novoe Vremya decl.res that such reports are imaginative, and that he only saw the body of one Jewess who had been murdered. He adds that U n the same house he found a child which had been most severely wounded.  Mr. B. L. Benas, president of the Liverpool Branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association, sends to the papers a letter received by Alderman A. B. Forwood from the Bishop of Liverpool, in which his lordship says : " I have read the accounts of the horrible treatment ifhich the Jews have lately received in some parts of Russia with great grief, disgust and indignation. I could not have belieyed that in the 19th century such abominable atrocities could possibly have been perpetrated in any Christian country. I have always regarded the Jewish nation with the deepest interest. I cannot forget that the world owes a debt to them Which can never be repaid, and of which we do not realise the value. However much we may regret that their faith is not the same as ours, I am quite Certain that they are the last people on earth who Ought to be persecuted by Christians. I am confluent from my reading of unfulfilled prophecy in the Old Testament that there is a great future before the Jewish nation, and that a day will come when they will be a blessing to the world. In the mean"time, however deeply I regret that they do not see eye to eye with us in the matter of creed, I desire always to treat them with tha utmost kind. S 5, courtesy, and charity, and I abhor the very idea of their persecution. I know not wliat ean be done at this juncture in order to express our eYmpathy with the sufferers in Russia. I cannot bring toYeelf to believe that the Russian Government is aware of all that has happened, or thoroughly grasps the feeling of abhorence with which the recent events in some of the Czar's dominions are regarded throughout the civilised world. I trust, however, that all Christian men in England will raise a loud 97 of rekonstrance, and enter a moral protest against the treatment to which so many unhappy Jews have been i.lubjected. In that protestj desire most heartily to