A serious attack upon the Jewish colonists in the Zaporozhje colony No. 3 is reported here. The attack, it is said, was perpetrated by the neighboring Kulaks, wealthy peasants, who, embittered because the land which formerly belong to them was assigned to the Jews by the government, fell upon the colonists beating them and damaging their cattle and property. Prior to this attack the Kulaks had damaged the Jewish crops by turning horses into the fields.
It is understood that this sabotage against the Jews was undertaken systematically with the knowledge of the local authorities. These facts have been substantiated by an investigation with the result that not only will the guilty Kulaks be brought to trial, but also the chairman of the regional Soviet and the regional Chief of Police. The peasants who participated in the attack are all former members of Attaman Machno’s pogrom band, who carried on open pogrom agitation against the Jew seven under the Soviet regime.
The trial is scheduled to take place next week in Zaporozhje.
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