Anti-Semites demonstrated outside a Wilno court-room and attacked Jews yesterday while seven Endeks were being sentenced to terms ranging from two to five years for throwing bombs at Jewish shops.
The principal defendant was an engineer named Baniszewic, who got a five-year term. All seven were taken to prison immediately after being sentenced.
A bomb demolished a Jewish store at Wlachi near Warsaw. At Rembergow a bomb thrown at a Jewish house demolished the apartment of a non-Jew, causing Nationalists to raise a clamor of Jewish provocation.
Meanwhile, thirteen of twenty-five anti-Semites arrested in Minsk Mazowieck for participation in disorders in which almost fifty Jews were injured were released.
Minsk presented the appearance of a deserted city. All streets leading to the town were heavily guarded by Warsaw police.
The market place and streets in the Jewish quarter were also under heavy guard. Jews dared not venture into the streets, gathering in hushed groups before the gates of their homes.
Jewish shops were padlocked and houses boarded up. Non-Jews displayed Madonnas in the windows of their homes.
Medicines and bandages were brought in for scores of Jews wounded in disorders last week. Food for the 1,000 or so Jews, who remain from a total Jewish population of 6,000 was also being brought.
Synagogues were empty of worshipers yesterday. Special guards stood watch over them to prevent arson. Police were equipped with gas bombs to deal with any new outbreaks.
Many non-Jews were sheltering Jewish neighbors, a survey by a special Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent revealed. It was hoped that tension would have sufficiently eased by today to permit of the return of the some 5,000 Jews who fled the town to seek refuge in Warsaw.
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