A five-year-old Jewish boy was killed, five Jews seriously wounded and many others slightly injured when the firing of a revolver into a May Day procession in the center of the Jewish quarter threw the crowd into panic.
(The Havas News Agency said the assailants hurled a bomb and fired several revolver shots into the crowd.)
Terror-stricken men and women, seeking to escape from the crowd, trampled on one another, adding to the confusion and the number of casualties.
The dead boy was Abraham Schenken, son of a street trader. The seriously injured are: Feiga Niuman, 50-year-old Jewish woman; Lasar Nissenbaum, 17-year-old tailor; Hirsch Drumlewicz, 43-year-old shoemaker; Abraham Englisher, 59-year-old trader, and Gershon Perlmutter, eight-year-old son of a tailor.
Demonstrations in the capital included seven parades with a total of nearly 100,000 marchers. Four Jewish Socialist groups marched in the Jewish quarters, Havas said.
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