A number of Communist youths held a meeting on the second day of Rosh Hashanah in the Jewish cemetery here. The police suddenly arrived on the scene, and in trying to escape the Communists knocked down several tombstones. One of them, a boy of 14 named Chaim Goldberg, broke his leg.
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