A parade of Jewish War Veterans, headed by American and Zionist flags, assembled at the parade headquarters in St. Marks Place yesterday, in order to march in procession to City Hall, and called public attention to the persecutions of Jews at present raging in Germany.
The march was preceded by a brief service, carried out by Rabbi Edward Lissman, Chaplain of the Fire Department, who recited the “El Molei Rachmim”, the prayer for the dead. The procession was escorted by mounted and foot police, under the direction of Chief Inspector David J. McAuliff. Represented in the parade were the Jewish War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Palestine Association, British War Veterans, Legion of Judea, Disabled War Veterans, Brooklyn Naval Hospital, the Shomrim Society of the Police Department, the Spanish American War Veterans, the Jewish Theatrical Guild, and the Women’s Auxiliaries of the Jewish War Veterans’ Posts.
The procession which numbered about 10,000, including numerous non-Jewish war veterans, marched by way of Lafayette St., to City Hall. There a delegation waited on Mayor O’Brien, and presented resolutions asking this City to add its voice to the storm of protests sweeping the country.
Another delegation called on the British Consulate and presented a petition, asking the British Government to modify the Palestine immigration restrictions so as to allow entry of Jewish refugees from Germany.
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