Dr. Max Weinreich, the well-known Yiddish journalist and philologist, who is one of the chief organisers and directors of the Vilna Yiddish Scientific Institute, was seriously injured this evening when he was returning with a number of other Jewish journalists from a press conference to which they had been invited by the District Governor of Vilna. A mob threw stones at them as they were going along, and Dr. Weinreich had his right eye cut open by a stone.
A mob of students and hooligans made a raid this evening on the Jewish quarter of Shnipeshok, on the outskirts of the city, which is inhabited by the poorest section of Vilna Jews.
The Board of the Vilna Jewish Community held a special meeting to-night, to consider the situation. After adopting a protest resolution, it was resolved to open a register of the names of the victims of the disturbances, which will be preserved in the communal records. Stones were thrown through the windows, while the meeting was in progress.
There were few Jews in the streets in the centre of the town this evening, being afraid to venture out. Big police detachments are on duty in the streets now, and the police authorities state that they are now in full control of the situation. Everything is now quiet.
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