Show SEE CHOLERA SCARE German Expert Predicts Epidemic Epi-demic in Europe Physician Narrowly Escapes Death as Result of Talesof Murder Believed Be-lieved by Mob Bad Status In Czars Land Oerlln Asiatic cholera undoubtedly undoubted-ly will be epidemic In Europe next spring and summer and tho terrible scourge will come from Russia where cholera Is raging In many localities notwithstanding tho olllclal statement that tim emlliro Is free from tho disease dis-ease This is the opinion of Prof Rheln furth a noted German medical export ex-port An article based on his personal observations during a recent visit to Russia appeals In the Nord Deutsche Zeltung Tho methods of the Russian bureaucracy bu-reaucracy In dealing with the people In the districts affected with tho scourge certainly are open to criticism criti-cism writes the professor In his article ar-ticle The people are kept In dense Ignorance of even the most cojjimon means of fighting cholera and of rules governing cleanliness dirt and sanitary sani-tary conditions They are ruled through their superstitious fears and politics enters largely the official light against the disease It Is through the Ignorant and superstitious su-perstitious Ideas of the people that the political factions In Russia wreak revenge re-venge on the government by harassing harass-ing even Imperiling the lives of government gov-ernment agents Tho result Is that careful measures against cholera are carried out In a careless perfunctory manner Thousands dlo who under tinother system could have been savtd Hut what of that Tt Is only peasants Jews mere human animals and so It goes on faction fighting faction and all lighting the government To Illustrate his view the professor relates an Incident of which he was a I witness and which occurred a few weeks ago on tho Island of Talahak In the great Russian fishing district of Pskov When I arrived at the Island cholera chol-era had broken out among the fishermen fisher-men writes Prof Rhclnfurth A Dr VnljanskI had been sent by the government to tho official barrack hospital to assist the local physician Several weeks previously a party of students from the University of Dor pat had visited the Island to study the fishing Industry Soon thereafter cholera chol-era broko out and Interested persons went among the peasants and wild rumors were circulated The students had been sent by the government to poison the people It was said and they had been seen throwing powders Into tho lake of Pskorska August 10 tim anniversary of a former cholera epidemic a crisis was u reaciieu A nmtuiiK imu meu cimuu In the Islands council house Somo ono started tho talk about the students stu-dents Instantly cries arose all over the holltlte students were railed official of-ficial murderers Dr Voljanskl had been sent to kill the people It was asserted and If he did not confess 1 < 111 him was the cry Unfortunately Dr Voljanskl entered en-tered tho building at that moment He heard the cries of the Infuriated I penpln and ran toward the office of the chief of police followed by the peasants They surrounded the buildIng build-Ing and demanded that the doctor ho turned over to them A police officer sent by tho doctor to the harbor to get a boat ready for him to leave the Island was almost killed by tho mob u ur voijansKi evidently was a man of courage for ho faced tho crowd and persuaded It to agree that It would permit him to leave tho Island Two of the leading men promised to escort him to the harbor and they started for tho shore Dut the greater part of tho mob was beyond control rho physician and his protectors had gone only a short distance when the people overtook them and despite the valiant fight of his two protectors he was beaten nearly to death and thrown Into the sea The captain of n mall steamer about to depart had I observed the attack and had a boat with an armed crew In readiness Vol janskl was drawn from tho water and loiutfed I the steamer which left the harbor at once Enraged at tho escape of Its Intended In-tended victim the mob started for the house of the resident physician Dr Volliov He was beaten and prob 1 I ably would have been killed but for thu arrival of several companies of soldiers and police who beat tho mob I Into subjection killing and wounding all found outside their houses and keeping up the massacre for several days Russian newspapers said little about the matter Tho conservative newspaper Russkajo Snamja deplored that tho government did not drive the entire population from the Island This Is Russia of today |