Two pedestrians were slightly injured this morning and many house windows were broken when a time bomb planted in Muratow Place in Warsaw’s Jewish quarter exploded at 10:30 o’clock, two hours before a May Day procession of Laborite Zionists passed the spot. They are Isaac Kornblit, 17-year-old Jew, and a Polish worker.
The infernal machine was believed to have been buried in the square near midnight. Aside from the explosion, no other incidents were reported in connection with today’s two Jewish demonstrations — that of the Bund, Jewish Socialist party, and that of the Poale Zion. Strong agitation by the anti-Semitic National Radicals and Phalangists (Fascists) had preceded the parades.
The labor Zionists, whose parade was larger than in previous years, carried posters declaring, “Arab terror will not deter us,” and “We demand free Jewish immigration to Palestine.” Indoor meetings of Jewish parties were addressed by their leaders and Polish Socialists. Many Jewish workers participated in Polish workers’ demonstrations.
A leader of the Bund, Berger, was injured in Grodno during an attack by anti-Semitic National Democrats on a May Day parade. In Kielce and Lwow, National Democrats and National Radicals attacked demonstrators including Jewish workers.
The Lwow authorities prohibited demonstrations by the Poale-Zion Organization.
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