PARIS MURDER TRIAL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 26 October 1927, Page 9

PARIS MURDER TRIAL.

ENQUIRY INTO JEWISH POGROMS. (BI CABH-NtISS ABSOCIATIOX-COMBIOHT) AST) N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received October ..25th, 10.50 p.m.) PARIS, October 24. The trial of Schwarzbard has developed, as was expected, into an investigation of General Petlura's responsibility or otherwise for the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine. A string of witnesses for five days has declared that General Petlura befriended the Jews. To-day evidence was given to the contrary. M. Goldstein, a member of the Petrograd bar, but an anti-Bolshevist who was compelled to leave Russia, testified that the order to save the Ukraine and kill the Jews came from General Petlura's headquarters. There were no massacres before General Petlura was head of the army and none after he left the Ukraine. A woman medical student, Mile. Grinberg, said she had nursed the Jewish victims of the pogroms. She described the massacre and violation of young giris and children in the streets by General Petlura's soldiery. [Samuel Schwarzbard is on trial for the murder of the Russian General Petlura, who was shot on the Boulevard St. Michael by a Russian Jew, who fired five times at him, five of the shots being effective.]