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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
16
Special correspondent Herman Hernstein describes three days of pogrom violence in Lipuvka Vilna April 19 to 21. Jews were shot bodies left unburied as Polish officers divided loot, robbed, mocked victims, and refused Jewish burial in the cemetery.
Eyewitness descriptions detail Polish legionnaires and soldiers storming Vilna homes during April last year, dragging and shooting Jews including Daniel Trakinski 3, Moses Asch 43, and Leer Hurwitz, with bodies found mutilated. Survivors recount humiliation, looting, and forced walks in underwear as community members were executed or beaten.
Accounts describe Lipuvka robberies and shootings of Meyer Stein and the Vilna Jewish family by Polish soldiers and legionnaires. In Lipuvka a man robbed of clothes shoes watch and 09 rubles, then killed after repeated demands for money. In Vilna a father and son were dragged from bed, tortured, shot, and left to die days later, with the family targeted for terror.
Special to The Washington Fest reports the motor transport corps transcontinental train reaching Austin Nev at 2 80 today after passage over mountains and desert. The convoy paused to regroup before continuing toward Westgate. One four wheel kitchen trailer capsized and was damaged beyond repair.
Fighting breaks out across Montenegro as rebellion widens and Serbians reinforce with limited success. Montenegrin factions clash over royal restoration versus joining Jugoslavia, with railway disruption and renewed guerrilla activity in the mountains.
Pretoria reports Premier and agriculture minister Louis Botha died suddenly this morning after influenza. Born 1863 in Greytown Natal, he rose from Boer forces to chief of the Transvaal Boers, led at Colenso and Spionkop, helped rebuild after Pretoria fell, and later formed governments and helped negotiate peace with Germany. His death ends a pivotal era in South African politics and war.
One hundred Washington boys and youths from suburbs will enter the camp of the junior marines and naval division of the junior defense guard at the National Service School on Little Falls and Sandalt roads northwest.
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