umbers
than Jews? Time and again we read in the newspapers of the friendly
reception of the German armies by the German population of Kurland.
There were also registered cases where penalties were imposed on
individual persons who either showed too great an enthusiasm for the
German troops or rendered them material services. Nevertheless,
nothing was heard about the German population of the Government of
Kurland being deported in a wholesale manner,--at least, not a single
train with Kurland Germans has reached Crimea.

On the other hand,--so thinking people keep on arguing,--if the Jews
have proved to be more German than the Germans themselves, and the
Teutonic population of Kurland act like loyal Russian subjects, why
then liquidate the land owned by the Crimean Germans, who have been
living in Crimea for more than a century, who have never shown any
disloyalty to Russia, who, furthermore, are separated from the German
frontier by thousands of versts and who are, therefore, by no means
able to inform the Germans from Germany about the movement of our
troops in the provinces of Kurland and Kovno.

And once more rises the question: "In whose interests is all this
done?"

The matter has also another aspect. How many Jews were deported--tens
or hundreds of thousands--no one knows exactly; but seeing the large
masses which are being shifted from place to place, people wonder how
many cars were necessary to transport all these throngs. And then it
occurs to them that all these trains could bring in enormous cargoes
of coal, sugar, kerosene and other wares which are so badly needed
here, and carry away grain and fruit, which are needed elsewhere, thus
making life more livable in many corners of our vast country.

And people who have the enviable capacity of not losing their
equanimity under any circumstances, remark that in this fashion the
Jewish problem is being settled and the Pale of Settlement removed.

"Here already the provinces of Voronezh and Penza are opened to
Jews.... Little by little all of Russia will be opened up...."

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THE JEW

_Mikail Petrovich Artzibashef, the author of Sanine was born in
the year 1878 in Southern Russia. He is widely read both in his
own country and outside of its borders. In 1905 he took part in
the revolutionary movement, and was indicted, but escaped
punishment because of the temporary success of the popular
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