[170] Olga Novikoff, ubi supra.
[171] Goldwin Smith, “The Jews,” The Nineteenth Century, Nov. 1882. Cp. Pierre Botkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation in Washington, “A Voice for Russia,” The Century Magazine, Feb. 1893.
[172] Laurence Oliphant, “The Jew and the Eastern Question,” The Nineteenth Century, Aug. 1882.
[173] Pierre Botkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation in Washington, “A Voice for Russia,” in The Century Magazine, Feb. 1893. Cp. “A reply” to it by Joseph Jacobs, Secretary of the Russo-Jewish Committee, London, in the same periodical, July, 1893.
[174] In 1902–3 the Russian Empire, according to the Statistical Table in the Jewish Year Book, contained 5,189,401 Jews, representing 04.13 of the total population (125,668,000). There are serious reasons, however, to believe that their real number is considerably in excess of this figure.
[175] The Times, June 14, 1905.
[176] Towards the end of 1904 a Bill was introduced in the Council of the Empire, preventing the promotion even of baptized Jews. But, owing to reasons which will be explained in the sequel, it was withdrawn.—The newspaper Voshod, reported by Reuter in a despatch dated St. Petersburg, Dec. 23.
[177] H. H. Munro in the Morning Post, June 3, 1904.
[178] Statement by M. De Plehve, The Standard, April 8, 1904.
[179] Reuter telegram, dated Melbourne, June 4, 1903.