Nazi demonstrators broke windows of a synagogue and Jewish shops in anti-Semitic rioting last night in the town of Theusing, near Marienbad, Czechoslovakia, the United Press reported today from Praha, describing the incident as “the first major outbreak of Nazi anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia.”
The town council resigned and was joined by 300 Sudeten Germans in a torchlight parade through the streets, the U.P. said. The demonstrators, first dispersed by gendarmes, who threatened to fire on them, subsequently reassembled and broke windows. A truckload of gendarme reinforcements arrived there from Praha today and made several arrests, the dispatch said.
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