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Show TEH THOUSAND JEWS FLEE FROM RUSSIA , , . . , . . .. Further Details of Anti-Semite Riot at Kischeneff; Two Thousand Houses Wrecked. LONDON. May 1. Letter which have been received in London from Kischeneff, Bessarabia, confirm previous accounts of the Easter anti-Semite riots. Over J000 shops and stores In Kischeneff were wrecked. Not a building in the Jewish quarter was eparetT.' There was much de-struetion de-struetion on the- fashionable-thoroughfares, and only military protection saved the banks and commercial houses. The town today has the appearance of having withstood a siege, and there are 15,000 troops there. The streets are petroled by armed rotn. 8eventy persona are known to have been killed or to have succumbed to' their Injuries. Of this number sixty-two sixty-two were Jews. - Although the flots took the form of a savage and merciless attack on the Jews, there is little doubt that the outbreak was engineered by secret Rnsaian Industrial societies desiring to Injure and discredit the Government. The rioting ceased immediately im-mediately when the Government authorised author-ised the Governor and the commandant to fire on the rioters. Until this authorisation authorisa-tion was given the soldiers did not fire a single shot. Ten thousand Jews have lied from Kischeneff. - |