Strong detachments of gendarmerie today restored order in the village of Uhrove and other nearby villages in which anti-Semitic riots were threatened as a result of rumors that Jews were extracting blood of Christians for ritual purposes.
A young physician employed by the Bratislava State Hospital, stationed in the village, took blood tests of the peasant population. Rumors spread that he was a Jew and that the blood was to be used for ritual purposes. Anti-Semitic agitators used the rumor to incite the peasants against the Jews.
When village officials appealed for help to the central government against a threatened pogrom, official notices were posted in the village explaining that the young physician was a Christian and that his duties were part of normal scientific work carried on by the State Hospital. Police arrived in time to ward off anti-Semitic disorders.
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