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Show RUSSIAN .CHURCH" SAVES JEWS. It has recently developed that the J powerful influence of the churcn was used . in Bessarabia. : Russia, to prevent trouble between Christians and Jews. . For the first time, so far as known, the church stepped in to avert another Kishenev affair. Before Easter" the governor of Bessarabia, Bes-sarabia, Prince Ourusoff, called the at- . tention of - Bisnop Yakoff,' of Kishe- nev, to the malicious reports spread I among the people that the Jews were ' collecting and sending money to aid j Japan. The ' governor declared the 1 rumors absurd. From the beginning of the war the Jews in Bessarabia, like the rest of the I population, had shown their readiness to serve their fatherland, which was expressed in their declarations, ot loyalty to the throne and their dona-' tions to the sick and wounded. This was pointed out by the governor, -who urged the bishop to direct his clergy to communicate the facts to the people. peo-ple. The bishop . immediately instructed in-structed all the priests' of his diocese ta explain on every convenient occasion occa-sion the loyalty and patriotism of the Jews, and to point out that reports to j the contrary Were false, adding that he should be informed of all cases where enmity was displayed toward the Jews. , . " In St. Petersburg this order is regarded re-garded as an extraordinary precedent, which is bound to Influence the future relations of the Christians and the Jews. . |