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and ignorance, have in some localities lost all patience, 

 have been guilty of violent excesses, have mobbed the 

 Jews and destroyed their property. They have tried 

 to annihilate particularly all property, which to their 

 exasperated minds, was ill-gotten. 



And disclaiming all thought of excusing such 

 barbarities, he says: "They can only be regarded 

 as a protest of the people against what they found 

 to be a thraldom to the Jews worse than the serf- 

 dom which had been abolished. ' 



I found the Jews trading in St. Petersburg, just 

 as they do in Philadelphia, with no thought of 

 molestation, and after inquiring of United States 

 officials in that city, and of the best informed 

 Russians I feel inclined to endorse the article in 

 the Century. 



The London Correspondent of The Public Ledger 

 writes on this subject, August I, 1916, as follows: 



Announcement in Petrograd by Paul Milsukoff, 

 leader of the Constitutional Democrats in the Duma, 

 that a bill giving Jews equal rights will be introduced 

 in the Duma in November confirms reports current in 

 Jewish circles here for some time. 



By Russian departmental order the residence of 

 Jews outside the pale already is permitted, and re- 

 cently there was a discussion of the Jewish question by 



