The Yiddish newspaper Max Barander bought that morning in Warsaw carried the same news he had read in the papers in New York and London: the Balkan peninsula was a powder keg; Purishkevich, the notorious pogromist, and other members of the Black Hundreds were busily destroying Russian Jews; the Jewish colonies in Palestine were suffering from a drought; in Argentina bureaucrats of the Jewish Colonization Agency were again making trouble for Baron de Hirsch's colonies; Kaiser Wilhelm had aroused fresh bitterness in diplomatic circles with his belligerent threats; and the Zionists were preparing for a new congress.