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Excerpt from The Voice of America on Kishineff That the onslaught upon the Jews was not due to an overmastering impulse of the moment, but had been carefully planned, was obvious from the events of the first day. There was not one mob, but several mobs, operating at the same time in different localities. The police_ was Inactlve, and the military was not sum moned, although representatives of the Jewish com munity had called upon the Governor before the riots began, and had warned him of the dangers of the sit uation. Citizens belonging to the upper classes of society permitted it to appear that their sympathies were with the rioters, and on the part of the authori ties nothing was done until the second dav of the out rages was well advanced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.