Some of the cruelties perpetrated by the Czarist generals, against Jews, during the Civil War in Russia, following the Bolshevist Revolution were recalled by ex-General Gadja, former Commander of the Czech groups in Siberia.
Commenting on the Soviet reports concerning a forthcoming guerilla warfare of Soviet troops against General Semenow, a protege of the Japanese government, in connection with the ###no-Russian conflict, Gadja, declares in the press here that Semenow was responsible for many executions of Russian Jews whose property he later transferred to Japan.The French General Janin. Commander of the Allied troops in Siberia, relates in his published diaries that Semenow described to him how he executed great numbers of Jews. “Once,” he boasted, “I pronounced a death sentence upon a large Jewish group. One of the group who was employed at Chabarovsk by an American company jumped up, protesting that an American citizen cannot be executed summarily. I then ordered the immediate execution of the entire group.”
Their property was confiscated and taken to Japan.
Mrs. Sarah M. Gorfinkle, founder of the Chelsea, Mass. Hebrew Ladies’ Charitable Society, died at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Gorfinkle was also one of the organizers of the Radcliffe Scholarship Association and the Hebrew Home for the Aged.
The American Legion Junior Baseball League Championship for the St. Louis District was won by the Jerome L. Goldman Post Team, when the team defeated the University City team in two straight contests. The victorious team will enter the contest in Springfield for the state championship.
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