The rebels held out until the month of July. An order for mobilization was issued, in which nothing was said of Jews. All the stores of grain which the preceding regime had collected, and all food products, were divided exclusively among Christians. An agitation was carried on that the peasants should sell nothing to the Jews. A convention of peasants was held, at which an Executive Committee was elected.
In the first half of July a scouting party of Klimenko arrived, which killed one Jew and wounded one. At an assembly of
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Jews Klimenko demanded 400 suits of underclothing, several score of shoes, 15,000 cigarettes a day, etc. The Jews furnished the latter. Eight days later Tiutiunik's detachment arrived in Talnoie. There were attempts at looting, but the soldiers of Klimenko stopped them, saying: "The Jews have given us so much that it is not worth while to kill them." Then the bands departed, and a period without a government ensued in Talnoie.
TOWN OF EMILCHINO ( F VOLHYNIA)
Pogrom of April 10, 1919 Testimony of Vera Borisovna Rosenstein
The town of Emilchino, canton of Novograd-Volynsk, is 15 versts from the station of Yablontzy, Korosten-Shepetovsky branch of the Podolia railroad. Population, four or five thousand; 2,000 or 2,500 Jews. Before the war a large number of German colonists lived in the town itself and round about it; at the outbreak of the war they were transported to eastern governments. An insignificant number of the colonists returned in the year 1918 and settled in their former places. The relations between Jews and Christians had long been good, free from any tension. The Jewish population, economically very backward, in political respects was, especially the younger generation, strongly imbued with Zionistic and Hebraistic spirit. The Christian population was rather well-to-do, and lived always in great friendliness with the Jews. The same attitude, which stood out in specially sharp relief at the time of the pogrom, was observed also on the part of the local Christian intellectuals —the priest and the teachers in the local schools.
On April 9 at 12 midnight there appeared in the town a detachment of five or six hundred Petlurist cavalry, going, as was afterwards learned, from Olevsk to Novograd-Volynsk. First of all they broke up the Jewish "Night Patrol." A Jewish "patrol" is a regular phenomenon in this part of Ukraine. It was first organized after the overthrow of the Hetman, and consisted of 30 Jews. The absence of a strong and definite government and the appearance ever since then of internal dissensions caused the Jewish population to see the necessity of providing for their own defense, or at least the appearance of it. This guard from its very beginning had no weapons, by the wish of the Jewish population itself, and remained in this condition during the whole period of its existence. Besides this Jewish bourgeois patrol, there was an armed guard of ten "hire-
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