[200] Reuter telegram, Aug. 17, 1904.
[201] Reuter telegram, dated St. Petersburg, Sept. 12, 1904.
[202] Reuter telegram, dated Kattowitz (Silesia), Sept. 12, 1904.
[203] The Special Commissioner of the Daily Telegraph, Dec. 10, 1904.
[204] Reuter telegram, dated St. Petersburg, Sept. 3, 1904.
[205] Reuter telegram, dated New York, January 10, 1905.
[206] According to the returns of the last census (1899), 78 per cent. of the population over 7 years of age can neither read nor write.
[207] See above, p. 243.
[208] See a most interesting sketch of the movement in S. Schechter’s Studies in Judaism, pp. 1 fol., the same author’s article on the subject in Nord und Süd, January, 1905, and S. M. Dubnow’s article in the Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. vi. pp. 251 fol.
[209] H. Sutherland Edwards, Sir William White: His Life and Correspondence, p. 84.