(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The disturbances which occurred in the Ukraine several weeks ago had a direct relation to the Schwartzbard trial, it was asserted today by the “Dilo,” the organ of the Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia.
The newspaper says that the disorders among the peasants in southwestern Ukraine were not to further the opposition to the Soviet government, but because of the indignation aroused among the peasants by the acquittal of Sholom Schwartzbard.
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