This monstrous document was sent at the time in printed form, in the French language, to the editorial office of the Odessa newspaper "Novorosisk Telegraph" for those who might want to examine the accuracy of the translation published in No.

4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, 1891, and reprinted in No.

21 of the Petersburg newspaper "Znamya," dated January 22, 1904.

THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SANHEDRIN OF 1869.)] [Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics were omitted in the Butmi version, but are given in the French publication "Le Peril Judeo Maconnique--I.

Les Protocols des Sages de Zion," by Jouin, Paris, 1920.] "Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, without fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowledge is imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the power over the whole world and authority over all the descendants of Israel....
"It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel is being waged with the power which had been promised to Abraham but which had been snatched away from him by the _Cross_.
Trampled under foot, humiliated by his enemies, ceaselessly under threats of death, of persecution, of rapine and violence of every sort, Israel has not succumbed; and if he is dispersed over the whole world it is because the whole world should belong to him.
"It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our learned men have been fighting against the Cross with courage and persistence which nothing can break.