When the representatives of the French _Alliance_, the well-known Charles Netter and others, arrived in Brody, they beheld a terrible spectacle.

The streets of the city were filled with thousands of Jews and Jewesses, who were exhausted from material want, with hungry children in their arms.

"From early morning until late at night, the French delegates were surrounded by a crowd clamoring for help.

Their way was obstructed by mothers who threw their little ones under their feet, begging to rescue them from starvation." The delegates did all they could, but the number of fugitives was constantly swelling, while the process of dispatching them to America went on at a snail's pace.

The exodus of the Jews from Russia was due not only to the pogroms and the panic resulting from them, but also to the new blows which were falling upon them from all sides, dealt out by the liberal hand of Ignatyev.
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