One Jew was killed and twenty other displaced Jews were arrested here last night following a riot which involved Jewish DP’s, Austrian civilians, and Austrian police.
The incident began when three Jewish DP’s accused a civilian of stealing UNRRA boxes containing potatoes and flour, and a fight ensued. Austrian police arrived and arrested the three. At the police station, the group encountered a crowd of DP’s, who had come there to protest another incident in which Jews were arrested. Two of the three arrested Jews attempted to escape and in the ensuing melee, 16-year-old Morris Gottesmann, displaced Polish Jew, was killed and another slugged into unconsciousness.
Police claim Gottesmann was shot from the window of an apartment above the police station, and arrested the occupants, stateless Poles, who, however, maintained they had no weapons of any description in their possession.
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