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Confirm Earlier Report of Ukraine Pogrom

January 22, 1924
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Further reports confirm the anti-Jewish outbreaks in Southern Europe, particularly in Oliviopol, Elisabethgrad and Golta. The Russian newspaper, Rul, published in Berlin, gives more complete details regarding the outbreak in the Ukraine. The Rul accounts for three Jewish dead and 18 wounded in Golta and 18 Jewish dead and 118 wounded in Oliviopol, with 12 pogromists also wounded.

The outbreak started in Golta, says the Rul, where a mob released a peasant who had been arrested after a quarrel with a Jew. The Golta police finally succeeded in restoring order. News of the Golta demonstration reached Oliviopol a few hours later and still more violent disorders followed there, where the mob is reported to have laid waste all Jewish dwellings. The Oliviopol police refused to aid the Red troops in their attempt to bring about order, which was restored only after a batallion of infantry was able to arrive from a neighboring town.

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