The rapidity with which the pogrom was suppressed on the second day showed incontrovertibly that if the authorities had only been so minded the excesses might have been suppressed on the first day and the crime nipped in the bud.

The indifference of the authorities was responsible for the demolition of about a thousand Jewish houses and business places, involving a monetary loss of several millions of rubles, not to speak of the scores of killed and wounded Jews and a goodly number of violated women.

In the official reports these orgies of destruction were politely designated as "disorders," and _The Imperial Messenger_ limited its account of the horrors perpetrated at Kiev to the following truth-perverting dispatch: On April 26, disorders broke out in Kiev which were directed against the Jews.

Several Jews received blows, and their stores and warehouses were plundered.

On the morning of the following day the disorders were checked with the help of the troops, and five hundred men from among the rioters were arrested.
The later laconic reports are nearer to the facts.