The Chief Rabbi of Castoria and many Jewish pedestrians were attacked today in Castoria by anti-Semitic groups. Crying “Jews Quit Greece,” they pulled the beard of the Rabbi and injured a number of Jews in the street.
The Governor General of Salonica ordered a strict investigation and promised severe punishment for the offenders.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent was informed today by government officials that many Hitlerite propagandists will be expelled from Greece for spreading anti-Jewish literature. Those to be deported are all foreign citizens.
Twenty Jewish families from Greece, who had been settled in Paris for many years, returned to Greece today as a result of the restrictions which the French authorities are now placing on foreign citizens in France.
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