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to take part in the execution of
have coll c c t c d about 12,000
this plan. Although these com- marks, mostly from Russian
munications, as already above Jews,
mentioned, have nut been inves-
tigated, and it is possible that
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they are not absolutely reliable,
the department, in view of the Raised to Hungarian House of
Magnates.
s eriousness of the matter, has the
honor to request you to inform
The wholesale manufacturer,
the authorities subordinate to you
lanfried Weisz, of this city, has
of this matter, especially the cus- been created a member of the
toms authorities, and to point out I lungarian House of. Magnates in
to them that in case they get to return for his distinguished ser-
hear anything of such news, they vices towards improving the
shall report thereon immediately equipment of the army. Ile also
to you.. They have also to make contributed very .largely to the
clear to all tax inspectors and Red Cross. Besides Mr. Weisz,
their assistants, that, upon their there are five other Jews in the
official journeys, they have to House of Lords.
make the (officials of the district
and village authorities acquainted Death of Chief Rabbi Dr. Caro.
w ith th e contents of this letter,
The death occurred here last
with the instruction that all meas- week, in his seventy-first year,
ures must be applied to prevent Of the Chief Rabbi, of Lem-
such crimes, if they should be berg, Dr. Fzekiel Caro. The
departed rabbi was 'born in
planned."
184-1 at Pinne, in the province
of Posen, passed through the
Jewish Theological Seminar-y at
French Help (?) for Russian
Breslau, and was graduated Doc-
Jews.
tor at the Heidelberg University.
The local correspondent of the After holding, the office of rabbi
Russo-Jewish paper, levreiskaia at Lodz, Dirschau, Erfurt,' and
Nedielia, received the following Pilsen, he was appointed as
statement from a well-known preacher in 1891 to the temple in
Iewish deputy of the French Par-
Lemberg- . Dr. Caro has written
liament concerning - the attitude various works, including a his-
of his colleagues towards the tory of the Jews in Lemberg, un-
lewish situation in Russia: "As til the partition of Poland. ' lle
a French deputy, it is very diffi- was a very effective speaker and
cult for me to answer your ques- held an influential position in
tion. That could be regarded as Lemberg, having acted for many
interference in the internal affairs years as member of the Lemberg
of a foreign country. I express Communal Council. llis remains
my full sympathy for the cause have been te.mporarily interred in
that you defend but You must the Jewish section of the Central
understand what caution I must Cemetery of Vienna. The funeral
exercise:: T h e correspondent was attended by a very large and
-- ays that this fear of public in- distinguished gathering, repre-
tervention in Russo-Jewish af- sentative both of Vienna and
fairs, which wou'd not he with- Lemberg Jewry, including Chief
at political significance, is also Rabbi Dr. Gudemann, Reichsrat
characteristic of the other five Deputies, Dr. von Lowenstein
J ewish deputies.
and Dr. Kolischer and Professor
French Jewry has so far done Dr. Schorr. Several memorial
little to help the Jewish war suf- addresses were delivered.
ferers in Russia, The "Alliance
Israelite," which is pledged by its
Conditions in Galician Jewry.
statutes to such relief work, has
On behalf of the Jewish Relief
sent 100,000 francs of its capital Committee, Dr. Anselm Landau
to the committee in Petrograd, has visited the Jewish towns in
with the statement that "the pres- Galicia in order to organize the
ent conditions are unfortunately help for the distressed Jewish
too unfavorable to address a suc- population. He has collected a
cessful appeal to the Jewish pub- great deal of valuable material
lic." The Jewish Colonization concerning the situation of the
Association has acted similarly. (;alician Jews afflicted by the
So far nothing has been done to war. The deported Jews. of Zloc-
start a general subscription. zow have returned and found
Prof. S. Levi, of the College de their dwellings mostly plundered.
Fran (-l e, has collected 15,000 .\ general relief committee was
francs privately. The Zionists formed, to which the Catholic

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priest, the school director and the ed. But this proof was of no
mayor belong. The committee avail. A poor brother of the
distributes four pounds of flour missing man had to pay the 300
per head gratis, or at a very low roubles. The incident is being
price. At the instance of Dr. vigorously discussed in the Rus-
Landau a Jewish Relief Commit- sian press.
tee was formed, which received
500 kronen from Lemberg for the
purchase of wood for the needy.
THE JEWISH QUESTION.
So, far, only a small number of
(Continued from Pap.
tl-ke fugitives have returned to
'''P,ohorodschani. Most of them do ties, they will ' insist upon the full
not wish to go hack, as they know establishment of their own rights
they will find nothing- . Twenty as nationalities. In most coun-
per cent of the Jewish houses tries, however, the principle of
have been completely demolished,
70 per cent. more or less damag- proportional representation, by
ed, hardly l0'per cent. left intact. making every vote effective, will
A Jewish Relief Committee has divest the movement of a nation-
been formed, which has received alistic or race character. And
1,500 kronen from the Lemberg
proportional representation is one
headquarters.
During- the Russian invasion, of the assured reforms of the fu-
ture in all democracies. The Jews
the Jewish Toynhee Hall had to
will strive for enfranchisement,
be closed. This important insti-
not as Jews, but as citizens. -
tution has at last been reopened
'The proceedings of the congress
and last week the first lecture
was given by Prof. Hanauer on will be watched with sympathetic
interest by Americans, who have
"Protection of War Orphans."
had all opportunity unparallel-
Fine Demanded for Heroic "De- ed elsewhere of seeing the Jew
at his best. It has been said that
serter."
each country has the kind /0 f Jews
-
t.
The following remarkable case which it deserves. The Amc ican
is reported in the Russian paper democracy, by consistently ac-
Djen: The relatives of the Jew co•ding equal treatment to the
Mordecai kazap, of Kishineff, Jews within its citizenship, has
who is liable to military service, the most loyal, the most enlight-
were sentenced to the usual fine ened and the least clannish Jew-
of 300 roubles, because the latter ish population in the world. It
had not presented himself for ser- will be the aim of the congress to
vice. The relatives have now spread throughout the world the
proved by documents that the al- political principles which have so
leged "deserter" has been fight- satisfactorily solved , the Jewish
ing- in the British army at the problem on this side of the Atlan-
I )ardanelles and has been wound- tic.—Yew York Evening Mail.

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