Show JEWISH CONSCRIPTS Devices Adopted to Escape From military Service I The St Petersburg correspondent of the London Times writes H A very curi in ous note appears in the newspapers in connection with the Finnish troops and the Jewish question to the effect that Jews who have to undergo their share of military tary service in Finland will be permitted to reside freely in the Grand Duchy until of How magnanimous June 1st 1886 magnanimous the government to permit its Hebrew their military subjects to perform mitary duties to the Crown without let or hindrance and then to reward them when no longer required by ignominious i restrictions and expulsion The Jews naturally appreciate this unfair exchange to the full and do their best to I evade military service altogether It is a I significant fact that in the last ceuscrip I tion nearly 16000 Jews failed to put in an appearance in their various districts or I appearnce more than 50 per cent of the whole number num-ber of those who evaded the Jaw > The I i Bashkirs and Tartars t say nothing of Bahkir sectarians like the Mennonites for Instance I I trns lke of for stance are also much complained stnce using various means such as injuring usig yaroua their fingers and lessening the measurement measure-ment of the chest in order to escape military I itary service A number of Bashkirs have been to account for reducing the i size of brought their chests by semistarvation and other tricks and thus obtaining medical trck In Russia a j certificates of exemption Rusia i Script exempton if his by the doctors is i eonscript rejected i onsrpt half the chest does not measure at least hal measue I length of his stature I ° ueqnaitoo j small district there were 150 men disqualified I I of dis-qualified a on this account out of 500 which qualfed strict investigation It alI I fact led to a strct investgaton I found several months afterward that I severl recovered then those rejected had quite their normal healthy condition and measured I healby necessary round the even more than was rounr chest cIes c |