EVICTION OF JEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 10

EVICTION OF JEWS.

"The fate of 11,000 Jews at Kieff is trembling in the balance." So writes a Russian correspondent to the Jewish Chronicle of a recent date. As matters stand, they all have to find new homes in tho Pale of Settlement. A large number of, them, it is added, have already been exiled, and a fair proportion of them await banishment hourly, although there is still some hope that the time-limit may, in tho case- of those who have not yet been driven out of the city and its'suburbs, be extended to April. This arbitrary and inhuman proceeding is the result of a circular issued some time back by the Premier, which the St. Petersburg police authorities are accused of having strained beyond its logical interpretation. The local police, it is said, have always considered Jews as lawful residents of the city, but the central authorities claim that all Jews who have lost their privilege to reside outside the Palo since tho issue of the circular must be banished. In consequence, not only the Jews themselves, but thousands of Russian tradesmen have been thrown into a state of panic. Ona of the effects of the expulsion orders, as the Jewish Chronicle points out, will be that the overcrowded Pale of Settlement will belch forth a vast emigration to England, Canada, and tne States, and that thus Russia will be adding to the »oci«l trouble* of other countries, already heavy-laden.