| Show J t s AND CHRISTIANS Author of the Strained Str and Ritual Ril ll Murders Was Wat W S the Newspaper Such Suel ol ot 0 lu Ih ui Iho the St SI Petersburg May Ia 23 Correspond Correspondence ence enee of iC r the tho Associated d Press There is vIrtual unanimity of or opinion In tin th lh press barring the time papers that lint the author of or the strained rela rein relations Ions lons nail of or the tue ritual murder colum was has Os tile the newspaper tz XA A XAI I Petition of or tho the Jewish community I I of oC to 10 the director of or the department of or police In lii II pointing this out guys In Iii generally and In Kis 11 particularly there were no strained relation between Jews and Christians until a 1 very Ver ery recent rel llah date This is II explained by bl tile the peaceful and orderly character of or the tile local loel population and when were wee being betag be g pillaged II ia ge all nih 11 timid Int southwest HUMla the tho ordinary imp l of 01 bin remained 1 The society paper named nome ppe the 1 was the tile direct t tor or of o tho tue trouble This neRI it er was established five fivey y years ago R O He lie Il stating In tn n til tl ii Its hit Il there was no flU local organ or an of or the tile It I therefore found virgin soil ol and from the beginning had hAi Influence Its Il second cond nd year eR the he began heln n a 1 bait baiting Ing In of or the Jewish population In fuel fact bolting baiting ty I 1 became heme Its recognized This has long Ion been ben Illon known to every reader of or the th HUl lon n scarcely a month passing without i tt the tho I citation of oC some Rome utter utterances uler ances by b this by tome fome other pa paper paper per rI We could quote articles the lie re ic report ro port continue which amount to 10 a elm sim simple plo rail coIl ll for tor the time extirpation of or the Jews Jewa en masse The Tue le Jewish h community went nt on to soy SAY the thu local loal censorship administered by b time the vice sloe 10 governor evidently approved the course of or tho Iho cOlre anti and di directed Il rEdel attention to the time Persistent re ic ro fual of or the tho St Sl Petersburg 1 admin administration to permit time the of ot any nn other newspaper at Kishineff m It IL I continued preaching Death to the Jews or All I Jews should hould Iw be Ir killed off until time the Its attacks of massacre 11 cul In the accusation of oC ritual murder The Tho Th Jewish community estal these acts anti and then lien thel related rl te that leaflets were handed about the tue Wel streets and In the th cheap and ten tea stating taUn tint that the lie czar cear has IMS ha decided to kill ki the Jews during the first three thre days tas of or Kuter Ift |