Arrests and convictions throughout the country followed in the wake of a week of anti-Semitic rioting.
Police in Lodz arrested thirteen adherents of the anti-Jewish National Democratic Party in connection with recent bombings of Jewish stores, homes and synagogues.
Two members of the same party were sentenced in Warsaw to jail sentences of six weeks each for attacking Jewish students at the Veterinary College. Meanwhile, in Lwow, anti-Jewish rioting has been renewed, it was reported here today, and a girl was seriously injured.
The story of anti-Jewish riots in a Polish town after charges that Jews had rifled the local church and the subsequent apprehension of the brother of the beadle as the real thief was told here today.
After scores of Jews had been seriously injured in disorders lasting more than two days in the town of Truskolas near Czenstochow, the priest last night delivered a sermon expressing regrets over the suffering of the Jews.
He called on the congregation to cooperate peacefully with the Jews, condemning the rifling of the church.
The sermon followed the arrest of Valenty Mliarczik, 27, the beadle’s brother, for the theft of various sacred objects from the church. The Czestochowa Jewish Community had offered a 500-zloty reward for the detection of the thief.
The rifling of the church on the heels of the bombing of the local Jewish synagogue gave rise to rumors that Jews had committed the theft as an act of revenge. Adherents of the anti-Semitic Endek Party helped spread the reports.
Resentment grew among the Catholic population and serious rioting flared. Homes of Jews were stoned and many were injured.
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