Thirty Nationalists were under arrest today following anti-Jewish rioting in the town of Czyczew, Bialystok district, during which one Jew was fatally and many others gravely wounded.
Selig Jelin, 36, died in a hospital here of a fractured skull. Three other victims, Israel Baron, Lipe Weinbrun and Chaim Jalkowski were in the Warsaw Jewish Hospital in serious condition.
A unit of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was sent to the town to give first aid to the injured.
The rioting was said to have been a Nationalist act of vengeance for the arrest and internment in a concentration camp of two Nationalist agitators for leading anti-Jewish outbreaks several weeks ago.
A deputy, pointing out that the concentration camp was meant for persons acting against the nation’s interests, asked in the Sejm (lower Parliamentary house) why the two had been interned. He declared that anti-Jewish acts were not against Poland’s interests.
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