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ever, may not even visit them for a short time and close their
dying eyes, because they have not the "right of habitation.'"
Such services of love are possible only through a violation of
the law!"
Similar reports exist concerning the terrible Jewish pogromsin
the Naprzod of Crâcow.
4. The Austro-Hungarian Press Headquarters reports as
follows upon Russian atrocities against the Jews:
"As proved by official investigations, the Russians after
the occupations of Galizisch-Dolhopole, shot one inhabitant and
crucified a second on two firs which had grown together. They
mounted guard before this martyred man for three days ere
he died. A Jewess lying ill in bed was literally butchered and
her husband shot.
In Dichtinez, the Russians burnt down 42 houses, including
all the houses of the Jews, the public school and the town
hall. The occupants of the houses were driven out almost
naked, etc."
The truth of all these portrayals is shown by the following :
The journal "L'Humanité" published a call of the Jewish
proletarian Socialist organization in Russia, the "Bund,"
addressed to the civilized world. According to this, most unheard
of Jewish persecutions have taken place in Russia since
the outbreak of the war. This address tells of Jewish persecutions
in the military zone and of pogroms in Poland, even
in Lodz; of mass expulsions, and emphasizes the fact that on
the slightest pretext the Jews were summoned before a military
court and condemned either to death or to hard labor.
The address closes with an appeal to the civilized nations
to remind Czarism that even in times of war the conscience
of civilized peoples would find words to condemn these disgraceful
acts. "L'Humanité" adds that this account is the
most striking "dementi for the reports of a certain press, which
declared that the Jews have been promised political equality by
the Czar. There had been no change in Russia's domesticpolicy
since the beginning of the war."
A leading article in the "Novy Woschod" gives us a glance
into the various afflictions that have befallen the Jews during
the first six months of war, and declares, among other things ::