Chinese Government Asked to Give Protection There was a large gathering, not only of Jews, but of members of other creeds as well, at a mecting held on Wednesday at the Soyal Asiatic Society's hall, under the auspices of the Jewish Communal Association of Shanghai, to protest against the massacre of Jews at Urga perpetrated by the troops of Baron Ungern. Dr. he Hawks Pott presided, supported by Judge C. $. Lobingier, of the U. 8. Court for China, Rabbi W. Hirsch, the Rev. A. N. Rowland, Dr. F. Rawlinson, Messrs. Edward 4. Ezra, N. E, B. Ezra, David and Arthur Sopher.
the Chairman said that many innocent men and women and helpless children had been put to death according to a premeditated plan and if others were silent after such an outrage they would not be true to the highest ideals of civilization. It was their duty to rouse the conscience of civilized "people wherever they could.
The Rev. A. N. Rowland proposed a resolution to the effect that the meeting condemned the massacre and called upon the Chinese Government to do its utmost to protect the lives and property of Jewish residents in China. He said that it was not a cry for reprisals, for it had never been the Jewish way to call for revenge, whereas the nations that had been the quickest in revenge had invariably been ruined. They wished to stir political activities in the cause of justice. Young Chinese were eager to create a fine public opinion and make the republic worthy of the commonwealth of nations, but officials had proved themselves absolutely incompetent in the first essentials of good government.
Even Sinn Feiners, he added, whom the public opinion of Christendom condemned, only attacked men in uniform who were opposed to them and their actions were not comparable to the massacre of Jews.
Dr. F. Rawlinson seconded the motion. He regretted that the protest had not come from Christians, but that they had waited to bo} invited by Jews to join them. Public opinion everywhere should condemn such useless and wolfish attacks, He trusted that Great Britain and the United States, who owed so much to Jews, would both use their influence to stop such massacres.
Rabbi Hirsch, in a stirring speech, said Jews had been called upon to repudiate Bolshevism. Why should they? They were not called on to repudiate the war the Kaiser forced upon the world. It was not their business if partisans fought one another. Nor would they fall into a trap by saying they approved of Bolshevism. They did not and it was a malicious lie to say that they had financed it. If
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