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Show FORTY-FIVE KILLED IN ANTI-SEMITE EIOT. ST. PETERSBURG, - May 12. The Minister of the Interior has cabled an official . account of the recent' anti-Semite outbreak at the capital of Arabia, Ara-bia, He says forty-five persons were killed, and 424 were Injured, and that 700 houses and 600 shops were looted. The Minister attributes the rioting to religious ill will and reports of ritual rit-ual disorders leading to a clamor for an attack on the Jews, and says the Immediate cause of , the outbreak was the ill-treatment of a Christian woman by a Jew. The Interior Minister, on the direct Instructions of the Czar, has notified the Governors that they will be -held personably responsible for their failure fail-ure to take proper measures to prevent pre-vent similar acts of violence. v. 1 |