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Show PROCLAMATION MADEjDPOEAND London, Sept. 9. 1:50 a. m German Ger-man newspapers, which have reached London, quote the following proclamation procla-mation issued by Austria to the Jewa in Poland "The heroic armies of the mid-European states of Germany and Austria Hungary have entered Poland Our flags bring justice, freedom and equal rights as citizens, religious freedorr I and freedom to live undisturbed In economic and cultural life "Too long you have suffered under the Iron yoke of Moscow, Wo come as friends. The foreign barbarian yoke is gone. A new era begins for Poland. We will use all our strengtli to put It on a sure foundation of equal rights for the Jews. "Do not be deluded by the flattering flatter-ing promises of the czar, which ai ready have been heard too often. D13 not the czar make the same promises prom-ises ln 1905? How did he keep hlr. wordT "Think of the awful banishment of the great masses of Jews; think of the cities of Kishinev Gomel. Blaly- J stok and Sedlec and their hundreds of pogroms. Now that the czar feels J himself between the hammer and the j( anvil he renews his promises Your sacred duty Is to work with us with all your might for freedom." oo |