Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy, St. Petersburg, June 23, 1906.

Mr. Meyer states that he has been advised by a responsible party who has just returned from investigating the massacre of the Jews last week that 100 were killed and nearly 100 wounded, that there were several cases of mutilation, but none of ravishing, and that the rioters plundered considerable of the property of the Jews. He adds that evidence points to the work and enmity of the lower local military and police officials, who acted without instructions from St. Petersburg.