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Show BLOODY FIGHT Alii JEWS Eight Killed anil bny Wounded. Socialists Make Attack of Destruction on Disorderly Disor-derly Houses. Police Look Idly on While Men Battlo With Knives and Demolish Property. WARSAW. May 25 Eight persons have been killed and 100 wounded, nineteen seriously, In a fight here between Jewish workmen and the Jewish keopers of disorderly dis-orderly houses. Both sides used knives. The dead and wounded wero terribly mutilated Tho disturbances continued all day, and wero still in progress late tonight. The damage to property has ben considerable. consider-able. There has been no pillage, but the destruction of tho furniture In th various houses has been absolute Mob Aimed With Axes. The mob armed with axes, smashed the doors and windows ajiel brought the furniture out In tho streots, where they broke It Into small pieces Tho owners of tho furniture. In attempting to defend their belongings, were attacked, at-tacked, beaten and even killed. Knives and revolvers were used freely anil many persons were terribly Injured. Tho authorities look no steps to prevent pre-vent the riots until late tonight, when the Cossacks fired on tho crowds at two points, wounding four persons Police A i A RnAnt itrtrc The correspondent Of the Associated Pic;- spent several hours In the Uis-tUl'hed Uis-tUl'hed district, but did not see a singlet active policeman. l")ii:;g the day patrols occasionally appeared, but :hey witnessed the proceedings merely cm spectators. The character of the disturbance is unprecedented. un-precedented. Tho whole afTair Is a conflict con-flict between respectable le-jph Socialist So-cialist riasses and the disreputable Jewish element. There are conflicting stories as to the origin of the trouble. One report Is to the effet i that the respectable Jews, tired of h i;mg the members of their race called keepers of disorderly houses, thieves and usurers and other opproblOUS names, re-BOlVCd, re-BOlVCd, the police were receiving bribes for protecting disreputable houses and persons, to take the matter Into their own hand'. Roughs Levy Blackmail. Another report lias it that Jewish roughs. In the gulee of members of the Bund, were levying blackmail upon shopkeepers, shop-keepers, thus enraging the Socialists, in any the Soc ialists r, r seemingly determined de-termined on a crusade against the undesirable un-desirable persons of their own race, with the result that crowds of men and i,vs are now systematically ruining the disreputable houses. Extraordinary scenes wero witnessed Late tonight, whu tha crowds visited ths better section of the city and demolished apartments filled with costly effects. Wardrobes, pianos and mirrors wre thrown out of the windows The mob In the streets left open spaces for the failing articles, nnd then completed the work of destruction In one place a quantity of valuable Jewelry was taken out and deliberately de-liberately Smashed with stones Hardly a Resort Escapes The whole affair was carefully organized The leaders wero supplied with Hie addressee of the owners of disreputable dis-reputable houses, and scarcely a single resort la Warsaw escaped destruction. ' |
