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Show i CHEFS POLES iPEBSECUTEJEWS Assaults on Persons and Property Prop-erty Continue, Says investigator NEJYV YORK. Sept. 30. Continued persecution of Jews, with bloodshed and cruelty, in Poland and Hungary is reported by Morris Etothenbersa. chairman of the executive committee Of the provisional American Jewish congress, who returned here recently from the Jewish- World Relief conference con-ference tn Carjsbad: Mr. Rothenberg declares that attacks on Jews In Roland Ro-land have ceased at no time since the armistice lie says that white antl-'n antl-'n etlc excesses in Roland were miti-I miti-I gated by the protest meetings held In America, "'assaults upon persons r.n.l I property in a smaller degree continued throughout Poland " "(Iradually these assaults assumed larger proportions," said Mr Roth.-n-lierg, "until within tin last U vv month, Jew.-, have found It unsafe to walk in the streets. Conditions came to such a state thar the Jewish deputies I In the Polish parliament appealed to Ithe minister of war and Minister Presl-I Presl-I dem Witos. who promised that they would take steps to stop these outrages , but nothing was done.' Ol si ED FROM ARMY. Mr. Rothenberg said that during thr advance of the soviet armies on Warsaw the Jews readily enlisted i.i the Polish armies, but that they were attacked and persecuted by the Pol s and were given the "most filthy and menial work to perform." The Jmvs complained to the mllltar authoriies, but the persecution was not mitigated, he charged. 'Immediately after the first vle-lorie vle-lorie : 11 Jewish soldiers were driven from the various fronts." Mr Rothenberg Rothen-berg ajsserted, "their ammunition wc.it ' en away, their uniforms removed and thej .'ii put under guard us though H were offenders. The Palish Pa-lish soldiers began to rogard the Jewish Jew-ish soldiers as criminals. Every time 'he Poles look a eity they killed Jews who came their way, and numbers of Old Jews were shot without trial The officers in charge afterward said that they killed bolsheviks This was a He. In order to cover these outrages tho minister of war issued an announcement announce-ment that a large number of arm d Jewish bolsheviks were found In many cities This Information was fed only to the Poles and w;ls not mentioned in the dispatches for the outside world because It was apparent that these rtatcments could not be substantiated." HEARING REFUSED. Mr. Rothenberg charges that the minister of war and Minister President Witos refused lo see Jewish delegations delega-tions who called upon them to complain com-plain about antl-Semetlc Outrages. The spirit of the Jews In Poland is being utterly crushed by these terrible , . ents and they feel that they cannot 'much longer bear up unless these terrible ter-rible excels - are stopped," he added. A cording to Mr Rothenberg, 300 Jews have been murdered In Hungary from December, 1919, to June. 1920, and he charges that the officers and soldiers of the White Arm) are the chief fomented o( anti-Semitism He said that the "young nationalists" declared de-clared that they wire willing to stop the pogroms provided laws were enacted en-acted that would destroy the Jews economically. HUNGARIAN ONDITIONS 'This Is now being done." said Mr. Rothenberg Laws have been passed punishing profiteering by flogging But, the producers are not affected by this law, It is only the middlemen, which means the Jews. Those who are found guilty are flogged and put In concentration camps and exiled " Ousting of Jewish civil-service employ em-ploy s in Hungary is also reported by Mr. Rothenberg "Laws are also being passed specifically directed against the Jews witnout mentioning them," he said, 'as for instance licenses of all persons engaged in commercial or industrial pursuits are revoked and application must be made for new licenses li-censes which may be issued at the ilixcretlon of the department in harge. Such licenses are not being granted to Jews, thus, utterly preventing them from pursuing their former occupations. occupa-tions. A law was passed that only those belonging to military formations I could lie admitted to universities As Jews are not allowed to belong to i these formation. Jewish students arc unable to get into the universities. ' Many of thern have been compelled to go to neighboring countries in order to pursue their studies and are expert-enclng expert-enclng terrible want and suffering." |