ANTI-JEWISH HORRORS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 146, 20 June 1906, Page 5

ANTI-JEWISH HORRORS.

THE INSTIGATOR PROMOTED. FRESH MASSACRES FEARED. (Eeceived 8.22 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. The horrors of the Bielostok massacre .ire becoming more and more apparent, as Lj the fact that, like most of its predecessors, this ghastly slaughter was largely instigated from official sources.

The Douma, in keeping with its rights to guard the popular interests, ins'sted on despatching Commissioners to the scene of the massacre, where there were dreadful signs of the fiendish barbarities that had taken place. One horror will exemplify a score of others. This was seen by the Commis- - 5: oners in the local hospital, where a patient lay whose eyes had been literally driven in with large nails. Further details of the outrage show that all the Jews in the house whence the first shots were reported to have been fired were collected in the yard and shot and bayoneted without quarter. An. unfortunately characteristic official move is reported in regard to M. Sheremetieff, Superintendent of Police at Bielostok, who is regarded as the undoubted prime instigator of the massacre. While ihis individual's removal has been effected as a salve to th? njured feelings of a large and indignant section, the good effect of the transfer^γe<? has been wholly nullified by the official's promotion.

Fifty Jews have been killed at Starosielie, near Bielostok, while other anti--emitie are threatened at Minsk, Viina, Kovno, and Grodno.