A group of antisemitic students broke up a Jewish lecture which was being delivered this evening in the University Hall. The students broke into the hall, turning off the electric lights and plunging the audience into darkness, and started shouting antisemitic songs, and beating Jews. Only three Jews were injured, one in the eye and the others in the temple, because the police arrived promptly on the scene and prevented the disorder continuing. No arrests have been made.
The lecture was on Job, and the lecturer was Dr. Kaminka, the Secretary of the Jewish Alliance in Vienna, who was there in his capacity as Lecturer to the Maimonides Institute.
The antisemitic students were incensed; it is said, because of a suggestion that the impending resignation of the Government will have the effect of holding up or completely dropping the student rights bill for which they have been pressing to legalise the position of the German race-student organisation, and to divide the students at the Universities on racial lines.
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