Fires which break out periodically during the summer months in the Polish towns and villages where the wooden houses become dry and parched during the hot weather, destroyed a considerable number of Jewish houses in two towns last night.
In the township Sokoly 40 Jewish houses, including the building of the Jewish People’s Bank, were razed. In the township Pokarny, near Bialystok, 100 Jewish houses were destroyed. Gypsy bands exploited the chaos to carry away much of the property saved in the fire.
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