An official communique announces the degradation of M. Papart, secretary of the Kishinev police, and his disciplinary reduction to a post in the Bessarabian village of Komrat. This is the first case of the Home Ministry reprimanding the police in connection with the anti-Semitic excesses in Kishinev February 11.
In Czernowitz the chief police commissary, G. Tiron, has been dismissed on an order from the Home Ministry because he made raids on the workers’ soup kitchen maintained by the “Morgentrot,” and for the illegal arrest of Jewish workers who were present.
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