KISHINEFF

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6313, 13 September 1907, Page 5

KISHINEFF

RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES DENY POGROM. By Telegraph-PreM Aasooiation-Copyrlgat. (Received September 12, 10.10 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, September 12. Russian authorities deny that a pogrom was carried out at Kishmen, as reported yesterday. Kishlnefl, capital of the Hessian government of Bessferabla, stands on .a tributary of the Dniester, 162 miles north-west of Odessa. Its population' is nearly 115,000, of whom about 10.000 are of Eussian race, tho others being, in about equal proportions, Moldavians and Jews. In 1903 the town be* came notorious for anti-Semitic riots. A supposed “ritual murder," ,of which Jews were wrongfully accused, had aroused great feeling against them, and on Sunday, April 12th, riots broke out, Jews being subjected to murder, pillage, and rape. Altogether it was estimated that forty Jews were killed and 300 injured. About 880 rioters were arrested, of whom 30S were punished. A sensation was caused a few weeks later by the in The Times" of a despatch, tho genuineness of which was officially denied, showing that the authorities had full foreknowledge of the disturbances being prepared against the Jews. . , . . Lodr, a great manufacturing centre in Poland, has been the scene of many disorders of late.