One Jewish student was killed and three others wounded today in an attack by an unidentified band on the campus of Lwow University. Karol Zellmeier, 24, son of a Zionist leader, died of stab wounds. His three companions were taken to a hospital in a serious condition. All were students at the university’s School of Pharmacy.
Hundreds of Hungarian students today staged turbulent anti-Jewish demonstrations in front of the offices of socialist and liberal newspapers in the capital. Windows were shattered by the demonstrators.
Reports from Rumania said today that serious anti-Jewish disturbances had been organized by German Nazis. The worst pogroms occurred in Transylvania and Bukowina, where many Germans live. Two synagogues in different cities were bombed and another set afire in Czernowitz. Several Jewish timber yards were set afire in the districts of Czernowitz, Radowitz and Suczawa. Continuous attacks on Jews occurred in Czernowitz. Military patrols were placed in front of all synagogues in Bucharest.
The Polish authorities have prohibited a “Day of Polish Trade” scheduled for Dec. 8 by the Central Council of Polish merchants to advance the anti-Jewish boycott. The Bialystok District Court sentenced 24 persons who had participated in anti-Jewish excesses in Dombrowa last Summer to various terms of imprisonment, four for a year, nine for eight months and eleven for six months.
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