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Czecho-slovakian Blood Libel Affair to Be-dropped? Report Says Authorities Now Convinced of Baseless

January 13, 1932
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The blood libel affair in the Province of Carpatho-Russia is being dropped, the J.T.A. representative is informed in a reliable quarter. The proceedings against the two accused Jews which were to have been resumed on December 24th. but were held back on that day will not be reopened, it is stated.

Fresh medical experts who have been called in have presented reports completely in conflict with the report of the official Ukrainian medical officer, whose opinion at the outset, that the two children, Helena Bogdan and Vasil Kosta, had been subjected to a drawing of blood, which he believed was done for ritual purposes, resulted in the proceedings being taken by the authorities.

The authorities in Carpatho-Russia are only anxious to discover a way, it is stated, of ending the affair without themselves coming out in a bad light for having given official cognisance to the affair? by pressing the charge.

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