Increased watchfulness by the police of Vienna, was ordered yesterday by the Police Department here. This order follows the unusually large number of cases in which Jews, women as well as men, have been molested and attacked in the streets after night-fall.
The police order is evidently directed against the night-prowling by Nazis in certain districts.
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