Lithuania Adds 200 Jewish Policemen to Wilno Force

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November 5, 1939

KAUNAS (Nov. 3)

The Lithuanian Government today enlisted 200 Jewish super-numerary police in Wilno and will recruit an additional 200, following recent Polish Nationalist disorders against Jews. The police are all armed and partly uniformed. They include a number of ex-soldiers.

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