Defying Premier Skladkewski’s sharp warning in Parliament, Nationalists continued unabated their campaign of anti-Jewish terrorism in many parts of Poland, Bombings, arson and knife attacks marked yesterdays: developments in Warsaw, Wilno, and East Galicia.
A bomb thrown into a Jewish restaurant in Wilno partially destroyed the place. Police arrested five Nationalists. A fire of incendiary origin destroyed Jewish houses and farms, including grain and live stock, in East Galicia, Anti-Jewish agitation caused tension to mount in the disorder-ridden Bialystok district, where Premier Skladkowski had stated more than 300 anti-Jewish incidents, including 21 mass attacks and 3 slayings, had occurred in 1936.
Peasants in that district were being terrorized into boycotting Jews. In many of the townships near Czyzew, scene of a pogrom two weeks ago in which one Jew was killed and scores wounded, Jews feared to leave their homes.
Meanwhile, student disorders at the Warsaw University continued, marked by the knifing of Abraham Semiatitsky, a Jewish student. Nationalist students charged Semiatitsky with being the leader of a Jewish gang. Police established there was provocation for the attack.
Newspapers reported that forty Jewish students have been wounded, four of them seriously, at the various universities here in the last fortnight.
Police raided the premises of the Jewish Students Association in Wilno but found nothing of an incriminating nature. The anti-Semitic newspapers of the city charge the Jews with responsibility for closing of the Wilno University, ordered shut for the rest of the term for disorders.
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