Anxiety Continues in Vilna: Anti-jewish Boycott Agitation Compels Jewish Shopkeepers to Close Down:

The situation in Vilna continues to give anxiety, because of the big anti-Jewish boycott agitation carried on by the National Democratic students, which has compelled many Jewish shopkeepers in the Zawalna Street to close down, because they find it impossible to carry on their business, in face of the obstruction of the student boycott pickets. It is also feared that there may be a renewal of the actual excesses.

This evening, for instance, the wife of the well-known Yiddish writer, Mordecai Bezalel Schneider (he is 66 years of age, so that she is obviously an elderly lady) was attacked in the street and was beaten about the head with sticks.

Repeated attempts are being made by students and others to start new outbreaks in the Vilna outskirts. At Lida windows were smashed in a number of Jewish shops, and at Trock, the windows of the synagogue were smashed. Five school-boys who were throwing stones at the windows of Jewish shops were arrested at Lida. Further away, in Suvalki, a band of hooligans broke into the headquarters of the local Brith Trumpeldor Organisation and smashed up the library and the windows, and went about the streets shouting “Long live Poland: Down with the Jews”

Dr. Max Weinreich, co-Director of the Vilna Yiddish Scientific Institute, who had his right eye cut open by a stone during the excesses in Vilna, is not making any improvement, it is stated to-day. Inflammation has also developed in the left eye.