It seemed as if the energy of destruction and savagery had spent itself in the exploits at Balta.

On the whole, the pogrom campaign conducted in the spring of 1882 covered but an insignificant territory when compared with the pogrom enterprise of 1881, though surpassing it considerably in point of quality.

The horrors of Balta were a substantial earnest of the Kishinev atrocities of 1903 and the October pogroms of 1905.
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THE CONFERENCE OF JEWISH NOTABLES AT ST.

PETERSBURG The horrors of Balta cast their shadow upon the conference of Jewish delegates which met in St.Petersburg on April 8-11, 1882.