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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 12 September 1881, Page 1

''- At-a meeting in Melbourne to organise \.& fond to aid the persecuted Jews of .putHem.^ussVa^ '.tliefMaypr In .ppenhijg' the proceedings said.— "As ; British suo- : jects, we were all 'lovers of liberty and' : of those English laws based upon equity 'and jusftceuriderj which wearegoverned. As such i^vfeiicould have, no sympathy with tyranny, intolerance or oppression in any { |>art : of the world. (Cheers]) We had read" in the • pijess 3 of th% re 1 •".'' O!Bat I ntta^k» i ,by. rj mobs in Russia upon, peaceable and industri6u§ Jewisli'citi;^n^how they . had* been" 'fobbed and murdered/arid that without', regard ;to age or sex. Men, woman/ and children :had been: assassinated ; in. the, j open streets of Cities, In the space c ofo'ne t nipnth^-iti^ May last— Jewish property I had, Seen- destroyed nbyj mobs to the ex- • ■tefit oi : £1 6,000,000, and^ hundr eds . pf 'fetoilifes^had^been turned adrift under , jjo . seelc „?Qr -^od/aji^islielter.in \o&sa£ Uifta. !':s{> his mind such barbarous atrocities; at bad laielyobe'ea^pinihitted in, Odessa, Kiev, and .other cehtres ;bf poputatiojn ia tKa.^ -most unhappy and wretcheid country, Russia; were unpafajeled in modierailiistory." - HeraldK annotmces;; jtbat J f lOOO ; fiave been co - ; , iebted and 'forwarded hpme ; to Rttssin. : The same journal : says:*~' tThe '': ■accounts that reach^us from- the isc'ene' of thp, outya^es are h&rrifving' -jin th|e' ! extreme,' an<J the jauihbrities seem io | wink at all. The follbwing little episode culled- from the "Jewish World," will .aerye as . .an illustration :— "From lUaessa we hear, of % funeral. :^atherinjg •* 'ia^thft .enclosure ;,of. :tne., hospital, wheije a Jew had died fr6m ihjupies received . va. J&e /late ri^s ? : being a^cted^by !a M^J'9% $!§¥okSy who ' s^yck at. tnerir' iwamea^ ftn4 t ehildren with theirjshdrk 7 -tM6k thdng whipi, whilst ;th"e offlcei«iV a coni^aua] J adcording to ttie " Paloidok/' ..a^ngs^clio^ed' himself -jwit^ laughter at Jhe^: eflin'slernation. , of; the ;jagbighte|d" r people. The corpse was takett-back'to"! the hospital -and privately bjy.i' •riightA ©he person Was '^ljurefl s|o' sev'eifely; i tfiat'h I e r is i ttojfc expected^ tp ,live. '^eyish;.; rla^yers^ docjtors^' a.n^° -wjereileavingifor Gonsianfcinople, and »/' - ptheri i cities,- ;6GO families^ thys VplHntailily; v '.^Hing 'tb/emsielvfis' from iOdessa^, ot , iV :. mt . :([: ( . i: . : fi ... '„ , .. A/mantiaELd ; his \ wife,;of : the inamer of Zysse^hav^gust been i: sente r n;oea;'4t th'e:Mittjelftnd; ; l Assi^es, Cattton s ' ' B'erpe' ' f to ' I penal. gej ; v^(d^ ior,. life .for fia^in'jg.'mu|-. | (JecediaU their children,numbering either . five [ 6p B&venii They admit haying 1 piit ' : : five tp' 3eath^ idti'd' tbere 'is ! .reason to t:be;liev,e,tha(t, ( th^yj [killed twp, otb ers ; wtipse births they coneealed. "•. > Their (motive for committing ;>criines so terribly utU : naturferand revolting 'was simply to ' saye ihem selves" ih'e trouble and expense iof bringing theiri children up; for, thoogh. in ' humble circumstances, the' Zysseis seßm to 'have been far from poor, a considerable iSiim of . money .having been found ia their house when they/iWe^e j arrested; 'The: plan they adopted io-i get- rid of .the children "vyas 1 , to depri\je J .them of food, and when, th^ prpce^s fofjj. starvation did not appear quick enougiy : or the little: ones cridd too-nxach, it was = a,ccelerated b^^st^anlling- ,knocp'ng; them pn.t^eJheajf^ Whekljiejurygavte ' in their verdjcA tfiey. expressedx regret that under 'itb.3 : present law of BfiPnfe,' : : the : Zyssets could, npt be sentenced 1 to" some punishment than perpetu^V;, imprisonmenti ; ,: ■» ; Princ© Alexander o f Bulgaria has isa degree estaiblishirig courts mai 1 - ! tial fer the trial of administration om-. J3ia]Si a ' ..;■• .1 ui I, :Q ,i " : A It hfts'Tbeeo estimated that every shell fired by ! an army duritfg siege bperations ( costs, with the ypowperyiriijH iwhieh the inoctor is .cb^rgedi the-sum • ■'Jt.li'M ini u(io«a^o-iiq e;-i;:. v j.oth-.^oiofci j j