(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The anti-Jewish riots which were started in Lemberg on Tuesday when the results of the election showed that two Jewish deputies were among the four deputies elected to parliament by the city, continued until late at night yesterday.
Notwithstanding the measures taken by the police, the demonstrators proceeded to attack Jewish passersby and smash windows in Jewish homes and shops. The attack on the Jewish student’s home was particularly severe. The police then took drastic measures arresting 250 of the rioters.
A group of progressive Polish students published a statement protesting against the riots.
The “Glos Prawdy,” the Government organ, today published an article condemning the Lemberg riots and the methods of the anti-Semitic students declaring that “Poland cannot tolerate militant methods modelled after those of Roumania and Hungary.”
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