The**-edicts are enforced with the utmost
rigor -n man) putts of the empire and with
severity everywhere. The Moscow palters
Isia-t that since the beginning of I*'.*! twenty
thousand Jews have t»eeii converted to orth*>
•lo\y. The unhappy converts, who have been
driven to an uupretendcd denial of the'r re
ligious faith in order to escu|»e intolerable
prosecution, h ive been <icp*»rted to (he dis
trict of Tch* - ea from
M bey arc i d by prh
*if the Russian <«rth*nl<»x church, who require
them io attend *.hc services of that church
uml to comply with h- various
narrow?; for any sign of evasion or repent
ance.
Thousands of Jewish working |»eople have
been driven from their employment to be
vome beggars uml w nudrrer-. <'l*l soldiers
wh- - wore medals for faithful ami gallant
s«-i \ ice in Ru-sia's army ate treated w ith as
lit tie mercy as oth*-r Jew s. No recognition
whatever is given to their claims upon the
country. Merchants of the best standing are
driven oiT like the jtoorest laltorcr. The
scenes witnessed in consequence are very
pitiful, ami would move, one would think,
even the heart of the Grand Duke Se.-giu-.
Moscow has lost, in consequence of the per
secution there, a multitude of its ino-t valua
ble n-'idents. Many of the Jewish tradesmen
ami artisans who !>:*'•■ !»eCil driven from Mos
cow hare gone to Lodz, a place a few hours
by rail from Warsaw, and which has rapidly
risen to a population nf 125,000. most of them
Jews • ndvr the Impulse of Jewish skill and
Industry Lodz, t- fast becoming an important
manufacturing ccntct Frado In Moscow is.
