AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JEWS AND GIPSIES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1516, 22 January 1886, Page 3

AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JEWS AND GIPSIES.

A St. Petersburg telegram in the Times says: —An < ncounter has taken place in a email Jewish settlement in Bessarabia, between the inhabitants and a party of gipsies, in which the Jews, contrary to custom, appear to have been the aggressors It shows what forocity the Russian Hebrews are capable of when tLey have numbers on their side* A caravan of 20 or 30 Anster i*n gipsies came over the frontier to dispose of their goods, and were assigned a camping ground by the poHce some distance from the Jewish village in question, close to which they had at first halted. This removal was ordered as a precaution against possible disturbances, as the Jews were celebrating one of their holidays, and would not buy anything just at that time. But shortly before decamping five of the gipsies entered a drinking shop, and while there one of their boys outside in the street wys set upon by a crowd of juvenile Hebrews. The result of this incident was that the gipsies were furiously attacked and half-murdered. A mob of 200 or 300 Jews knocked them down with stones, sticks, and ironbars, tore out their hair and beards, rifled their pockets, stripped the gipsy women of their ornaments, and ptondeptd the caravan,