the present strife going on between the Czech and the German students. Deputy Goldstein was assured by members of the cabinet that the strictest measures will be taken to restore immediate order and to protect Jewish lives and property.
Despite the fact that over 100 Czech nationalist students are now in prison as a result of the riots and will be kept there until trial, fresh disturbances sprang up today in different parts of the city, organized by Czech students and by crowds of Czech youths. The demonstrators were instigated by conspirators to extend the anti-German disturbances to include the Jews.
Increased police forces were guarding the city all day long and were busy dispersing the demonstrations which continued to spring up here and there. Special police forces were stationed in the streets with concentrated Jewish population.
In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Deputy Goldstein declared that not the slightest anti-Jewish occurrences have taken place in the provinces and that all the reports about alleged anti-Jewish disturbances outside Praha were absolutely false. Deputy Goldstein, who is the recognized leader of the Czechoslovakian Jews, declared that the Czechoslovakian Jews deplored the exaggerations which appeared in certain newspapers abroad about the disturbances in Praha.
A number of Czechoslovakian nationalist newspapers were confiscated today for publishing inciting reports. The rector of the Czechoslovakian university has issued an appeal to the students to maintain order. The chief of police has posted throughout the city a public warning that no gatherings will be permitted in the streets Military forces have been mobilized to assist the police in maintaining order.
The riots broke out as a result of a clash between German and Czechoslovakian students which had nothing to do with the Jews. The German students tried to prevent the Czechoslovakians from obtaining the ancient insignia from the university. Formal transfer of the insignia from the German section of the university to the Czechoslovakian section was originally set for eleven o’clock this morning. The Czechoslovakian students, however, organized their demonstration yesterday along the main streets of the city, in view of the fact that the German students opposed the transfer. It was during this demonstration that the marchers suddenly began to shout anti-Jewish slogans and to demolish Jewish stores.
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