(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
J. Chamiec, Polish lecturer, one of the notorious anti-Semitic agitators, was arrested last night at his hotel by the Warsaw police on charges of fraud and blackmail.
Chamiec, a self-styled professor, recently toured the country in the interests of the Polish boycott organization,, Rozwoj. preaching everywhere the gospel of hatred and discrimination against Jews. It was now disclosed that during his visit to many towns he obtained large sums of money through blackmailing and extortion methods from Polish merchants.
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