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Show EMPEROR A TARGET Claim Made That Jews Used His Portrait to Shoot At. ST. PETERSBURG. May 12. Some private pri-vate reports from Zhitomir place the number of persons killed as high as forty. The Governor of Volynla has caused the streets of Zhitomir to be placarded with rotlces to the effect that the troops have received instructions to fire upon any persons interfering with the Jews. The Official Messenger's account of the Zhitomir Zhito-mir outbreak attributes it to the provocative provoca-tive attitude of the Jews, who. It adds, ustd a portrait of" the Emperor as a target tar-get in shooting practice, and committed many assaults on Christians. |