The trial of eight youths charged with participating in the anti-conscription and anti-Jewish riots in Montreal last Tuesday will open here on Thursday, it was announced today by the police officials.
The riots, the second such demonstration to take place here within the last two months, started when a group of youths inflamed by anti-conscription addresses they had heard at a meeting called by the "League for the Defense of Canada" left the gathering and paraded down the main streets of the Jewish quarter of the city. Their anti-conscription slogans soon changed to anti-Semitic ones and shouting "A Bas Le Juifs" "Down with the Jews " the rioters broke storewindows of Jewish shops, stopped street-cars and assaulted pedestrians. After the marchers had proceeded for fifteen blocks the demonstration began to assume serious proportions and squads of police were sent to break it up.
The Jewish press here, pointing to the similarity between the tactics of these youthful rowdies and those used by the Hitler hoodlums in pre-Nazi Germany, is demanding that the authorities take stronger action to insure that such anti-Jewish demonstrations are not repeated.
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