If You Don’t Leave Village Not a Single Jew Will Be Left Alive: Threatened Jewish Population of Bess

If all the Jews do not leave the village, not a single Jew will be left alive there, the Christian inhabitants of the village of Serbesti, in Bessarabia, near Balti, told their Jewish neighbours, a delegation of Serbesti Jews has notified the Police Prefect of the District, who has promised to provide adequate police protection for them. The peasant population of the village, the Jewish delegation explained, was excited over the preparations for the consecration of the banner of the local branch of the anti-semitic terrorist organisation, Archangel Michael, which the Government recently ordered to be suppressed, after the arrest of its leaders, Codreanu, Totu, Danila and others, who are accused of having plotted to use the organisation to overthrow the existing regime.

Deputy Landau, the Jewish representative from Kishineff, has also interviewed M. Halipa, the Bessarabian member of the Government, who has issued orders for sending a special large force of gendarmes to Serbesti to keep order.

Antisemitic posters have appeared also on the walls of the Kishineff streets. The police have taken measures to prevent disorder there, following strict instructions to this effect from the Ministry of the Interior.

Last week, too, it was reported from Bessarabia that, worked up by the preparations for the consecration of the banner of the local branch of the Archangel Michael, the peasants of the village of Hartopu-Mare, hear Kishineff, had threatened the Jewish inhabitants till all the Jews of the village fled panic-stricken, some taking refuge in the near-by town of Orhei and some going right on to Kishineff. The Jews complained that the village police chief himself had tried to frighten them by describing the terrible things that were going to be done to them.