Arrest of Polish Anti-semitic Editor Reveals Links to Hitlerist Groups

A sensation was created in political circles here today by a Kattowice dispatch reporting the arrest of the anti-Semitic editor of the newspaper Sloska Prawda, P. Swiega.

The police, in making the arrest, confiscated many documents disclosing Swiega’s connection with Hitlerist organizations. The documents also revealed that Sloska Prawda, which has been conducting a violent boycott campaign against the Jews, maintained close contact with an intermediary of Julius Streicher, Germany’s leading anti-Semite. The intermediary, Geszi Schiltz, supplied the newspaper with a list of subscribers in Poland to Streicher’s weekly Der Stuermer, arranging that they receive the Sloska Prawda instead of the prohibited Streicher organ. Kattowice police were reported to be conducting an energetic investigation.

Meanwhile, Jewish newspapers here published facts showing how the anti-Jewish boycott campaign in Poland was being used to strengthen German positions. They revealed that the ultra-patriotic Union of Merchants in Posnan and Pommerania was used as a cloak to foster sale of goods made in German-owned enterprises, which widely financed the boycott drive.

At the same time, Polska Zbrojna, organ of military circles, charged that German firms in Polish Silesia were boycotting goods produced in other Polish districts or imported from countries other than Germany. The newspaper demanded strict measures against the boycott.

The Warsaw Municipal Council voted against adopting a resolution, submitted by Bundist Councillor Ehrlich, protesting the recent murder at Lwow University of a Jewish student by anti-Semitic Nationalists. The resolution was held to be outside the Council’s function. It was defeated by the combined vote of Nationalists and members of the Government Camp of National Unity.