Ten Jews were injured today in an anti-Semitic outbreak in Marszalkewska Street, one of the city’s main business thoroughfares. Police arrested a number of persons accused of attacking the Jews.
Reports that anti-Semites in the town of Zyrardow, Warsaw province, were attacking Jewish tradesmen, stoning their shops and picketing them to keep out non-Jewish buyers, were received here by Jewish economic organizations.
The union of non-Jewish restaurateurs of Poland submitted a memorandum to the Government today demanding that Jews be forbidden to open restaurants in districts inhabited largely by Christians, and also to restrict licenses to Jewish liquor venders.
Meanwhile, Polish newspapers sharply attacked Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite members of the British House of Commons, for raising in the House the question of persecution of Jews in Poland. They scored him for “daring to interfere in the internal affairs of Poland.”
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