The German wireless today quoted the newspaper Eclaireurde Nice as reporting that large-scale anti-Jewish demonstrations occurred in that unoccupied French city last night.
According to the report, large plate-glass windows of Jewish-owned shops and department stores were smashed by the demonstrator, who wrote slogans such as “Down with the Jews and Freemasons” in large red letters on the doors of shops and department stores.
Police arrested several demonstrators, who admitted they had taken part in the demonstrations, declaring that in their view the Jews were to be blamed for the national disaster, it was said. Police were quoted as stating that a revolver shot was fired at shop windows in two cases.
The Regence silk goods store, one of the chief victims of the demonstration, estimated it had suffered damage amounting to 40,000 franes, the report said. The demonstrators were stated to have written slogans on pavements and facades of numerous buildings, such as “The National Revolution Has Begun.”
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