THE JEWISH PERSECUTION IN RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1056, 1 April 1882, Page 4

THE JEWISH PERSECUTION IN RUSSIA.

Horrible Atrocities. Ax account of the events of 1881, with regard to the persecution of the Jews in Kussia, is furnished to the Times by r a correspondent, who says : —“ It is time that the English public should become aware of the character and extent of the persecutions which the Jews of Russia have undergone during the past year. The Warsaw riots have come merely’ at the lastterm (as yet) of a series of similar outbreaks which have ravaged the south and west of Russia to an extent of w lich people outside the country!, have not the faintest concept news which ha/frUawSSCdTuie bordeis have been most meagre detcriptPjk etjb'fly in the forms of telegrains announcing that anti-Jewish riots had occurred in such and such a place. Coming at various intervals, they have altogether failed to strike the imagination, and it is due solely to this cause that the public opinion of England, so ready to undertake the cause or suffering humanity, has not given vigorous expression to its feeling of abhorrence. Men ruthlessly murdered, tener infants dashed to death, or roasted alive in their own homes, married women the prey of a brutal lust that has often caused their death, and young girls violated in the sight of their relatives, by soldiers who should have been their guardians, loss of property is of little moment, yet they have been accompanied by the razing of whole streets inhabited by Jews, by the systematic firing of the Jewish quarters of tow ns in Western Russia, and by’ the pillage of all the property on which thousands of Jewish families were dependent for their existence. In addition to all this, many' Russian towns have heartlessly seized the occasion to expel from their limits crowds of Jews who have been left by this inhuman and deliberate measure homeless.