Eugen Roth, one of the four Jews who were shot in the Great Synagogue during Passover service, died of his wounds to-day.
The Jewish Community has held a special memorial meeting, at which it decided to pay the cost of the funeral, and to bury him in the martyrs’ corner of the Jewish cemetery, where nine Jews who were killed in the antisemitic bomb explosion in the Elizabethstadt Club in 1922 were buried on the same day.
The Prime Minister, Count Bethlen, has sent a telegram of sympathy to the Budapest Jewish Community, notifying it at the same time that the Government will be officially represented at the funeral, which has been fixed for Monday.
A big force of police was placed on guard outside the Great Synagogue to-day because of a number of anonymous letters received by the Jewish Community threatening new anti-Jewish action.
The “Pester Lloyd” suggests that the assassin Staloka may not have been playing a lone hand but that there may have been a gang of antisemitic terrorists concerned in the outrage, and urges the authorities to find out whether Satloka is really insane. It is not enough, it says, for the police to clap Satloka in the lunatic asylum, and let the matter rest there.
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