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Show PRIEST TORN TO PIECES IN ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 16, 2:35 P M.---M. VINAVER, A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTI-TUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF THE LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT, HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING DISPATCH FROM BIALYSTOK, DATED 2:45 THIS MORNING: "THE RIOTING PROCEEDED THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITH UNABATED UN-ABATED FURY-AND IS STILL CONTINUING WITH NO SIGNS OF CESSATION. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEND PARTICULARS OF THE HORRORS." ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 16, 4: 10 P. M. UNCONFIRMED RUMORS ARE IN CIRCULATION TO THE EFFECT THAT ANTI-JEWISH OUTBREAKS OUT-BREAKS HAVE OCCURRED AT B REST-LITOVSK AND VILNA. IT IS ALSO REPORTED THAT A CATHOLIC PRIEST HAS BEEN TORN TO PIECES AT BIALYSTOK, BUT THIS IS OFFICIALLY DENIED. The Government is undoubtedly frightened fright-ened at what has occurred. Martial law has been declared at Blalystok and troops are being rushed to the scene, but, according to the latest reports, the hunting down of unfortunate Jews continued unabated yesterday afternoon after-noon and night, accompanied by Indescribable Inde-scribable horrors. The commission dispatched dis-patched to Blalystok by Parliament can be relied upon to make a pitiless exposure to the country of any dereliction dere-liction of the authorities. The leaders in the lower house of Parliament are convinced that It is the present intention of the Government Govern-ment to prevail on the Emperor to order a recess of Parliament, and they have taken the Important resolution not to obey the Imperial order. This amounts to open defiance and Is a purely revolutionary step. The plans of the leaders were secretly formulated, formu-lated, but it is known that if the Government turns the lower house out of the Taurlde palace the leaders contemplate con-template an attempt to continue the sittings independently. In other words, they will try to seize the reins of power. The eternal parallel of the French revolution, which keeps recurring, recur-ring, is thus again In evidence. The members would probably be required to swear as did those of the French assembly to meet wherever circumstances circum-stances require It until a constitution is established on a solid foundation. WARSAW, June 16. The latest messages received' here from Blalystok say the sacking of Jewish bouses and shops, accompanied by conflicts in the streets between the mobs and the troops, continued until late last night. Many Jews, Poles and Russians, civilians and soldiers, were killed or wounded. The suburb of Bojary was totally burned and eight streets at Blalystok were completely sacked. The rioting Is said to have extended to Lapy station on the St.- Petersburg railroad and to Staroselce station of the Southwestern railroad. At both places the Jewish shops were looted and Jews were murdered or beaten. A mob devastated the Jewish shops in the town of Chernayawiez, the Arst station out of Blalystok on the line of Grodna. In Warsaw two police sergeants were shot and killed, another policeman police-man was wounded by terrorists, and a policeman who pursued the assassins was shot and killed by a passing woman. On War Footing. ODESSA. June 16. Instructions have been issued to the effect that all the infantry regiments and army reserve men in the southern and southwestern provinces are to be temporarily placed on a "home war footing," in view of the possibility of the peasants rising against the nobles. The Cossacks are to be mobilized Into flying brigades. It is stated that similar instructions have been Issued to the provincial commanders-in-chief in central and northern Russia. Censor at Work. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16, 4:30 p." m. The direct telegrams from Blalystok Blaly-stok to the newspapers here today contain con-tain no fresh information.". No doubt the censor controls the telegraph. Dispatches Dis-patches sent by the Associated Press remain unanswered. The Bourse Gazette prints a special dispatch from Grodno declaring that t the Governor of that city ' has expressed ex-pressed himself to the effect that there is no hope of stopping the butchery of Jews at Blalystok for two orjthree days. He is quoted as. saying" that mobs are invading the trains passing through Blalystok and are dragging out and killing passengers. ' The Jews who escaped from Blalystok are wandering, wan-dering, starving, in the fields or woods. The gravity of the general situation grows hourly. ' The bourses of - St. Petersburg Pe-tersburg and Moscow are in a panicky condition and the Social Democrats and Social Revolutionists, considering Parliament Par-liament to be a negligible quantity, are pushing, their campaign for an armed uprising with increased vigor. Demonstrations Dem-onstrations are daily occurring in the streets of Moscow in favor of a gen-eral gen-eral strike with" which the proletariat leaders are trying to precipitate a conflict con-flict The agitation among the workmen work-men here has reached a boiling point and patrols are again in heavy force in the industrial quarters. In the country coun-try the rural guards are .throwing in their lot with the peasants, refusing to protect the landlords. The progress of the revolutionary propaganda in the army is seriously alarming the Government, Gov-ernment, and to add to the popular excitement ex-citement comes the massacre of Jews at Blalystok. While the reports conflict con-flict as to the immediate responsibility for the outbreak, the authorities here cannot escape responsibility for the provocative black hundred telegrams which ' they caused to be printed throughout Russia, appealing to the worst passions of the mob against the Jews as .the enemies of .the country, a - "" . v Jews in Panic. ODESSA, June 16. The Jews at Kishinev are in a state of panic, in view of reports that a Jewish massacre mas-sacre is threatened. They hastily closed and barricaded all their houses and stores at noon today and the town is now patrolled by cavalry, while pickets of infantry are stationed at strategic points. Plunder and Murder BERLIN. June 16. 5:10 p. m. A dispatch dis-patch to the Tageblatt from Blalystok, dated Saturday, 2:40 p. m.. says: "Plundering and murdering continue. The garrison here and from several neighboring places is in possession of the city, which is on Are. Further fires are continually breaking out. The situation is frightful. A few Jews through high payments have been allowed to escape, " . t |
