APPEAL TO THE KING.
London, September 20, A deputation of Jews resident in London has presented to King Edward a petition asking His Majesty, to intercede iwitu the Czar in favour of the Jews at Siedlce. In response to the deputation, the Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sir Charles Hardinge) has telegraphed to the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg (Sir Arithur Nicholson) in Fegard to the matter, and also concerning reports of preparations for massacres of Jews of Warsaw and elsewhere. St. Petersburg, September 20. Two hundred persons who have been arrested at haphazard air Siedlce, in Poland, are to . be tried before a court-martial composed of the officers implicated in the recent massacres. Representatives of the British Jews are appealing to the Russian Government to stop the holding of courts-martial under such terrible conditions, and to thus prevent " a terrible crime." The Premier (M. Stolypin) has informed a deputation of Jews that he has telegraphed to the local authorities that it is not desirable to summarily try the 'Jews arrested at Siedlde.
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Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 3
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173APPEAL TO THE KING. Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 3
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