FRENCH TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5

FRENCH TRIAL

GENERAL PETLURA’S ASSASSIN PERSECUTION OF JEWS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, PARIS, October 21. Tito (rial of Sclnvarzbard has developed, as expected, into an investigation of General Pcllnra’s responsibility or otherwise for Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine. A string of witnesses for five days declared that General Pctlnra befriended the Jews, hut to-day evidence was given to the contrary. Mr Goldstein, a member of the P.etrograd Bar, but an anti-Bolshevist, who was compelled to leave Russia, testified that an order to save the Ukraine and kill Jews came from General Pctlura’s headquarters. There were no massacres before General Pctlnra was head of the army, and none after he left. A Ukraine woman medical student named Grinbcrg said that she nursed Jewish victims of the pogroms. She described the massacre and violation of girls and children in the streets by General Pctlura’s soldicrv.