There have been no anti-Semitic attacks in Puebla nor are the Jews there, or for that matter anywhere else in Mexico, in any danger of such attacks. For some time, however, certain Mexican papers have been filled with anti-Semitic agitation but this has now slowed down.
What anti-Semitic agitation is prevalent in Mexico is economic. Unknown persons have flooded the entire country with pamphlets that urge an economic boycott against the Jews. The beginning of the economic campaign against the Jews, which has thus far kept entirely under cover, was simultaneous with a letting up of the attack in other quarters.
There still is some fear on the part of the Jewish population which is a very small minority but no real danger of attacks is felt.
The above cable which has been published by all the Yiddish dailies is in response to an inquiry from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to its correspondent as to the report in the “Chicago Forward” that a wave of anti-Semitism was spreading over Mexico. The Mexican Consul-General in New York has not yet received a reply to his wire to the governor of Puebla in which he inquired, at the suggestion of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, as to the facts in the case.
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