Nevertheless, the Government found itself compelled to stem the tide of oppression for a short while.
We have already had occasion to point out that the Government had originally planned to reduce the Jewish element also in the city of St.
Petersburg, whose head, the brutal Gresser, had manifested his attitude toward the Jews in a series of police circulars.

Following upon the first raid of the Moscow police on the Jews, Gresser ordered his gendarmes to search at the St.Petersburg railroad stations for all Jewish fugitives from that city who might have ventured to flee to St.
Petersburg, and to deport them immediately.

In April there were persistent rumors afloat that the Government had decided to remove by degrees all Jews from St.Petersburg and thus make both Russian capitals _judenrein_.

The financial blow from Paris cooled somewhat the ardor of the Jew-baiters on the shores of the Neva.

The wholesale expulsions from St.Petersburg were postponed, and the Russian anti-Semites were forced to satisfy their cannibal appetite with the consumption of Moscow Jewry, whose annihilation was carried out systematically under the cover of bureaucratic secrecy.
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