Christian Girl Students Help Jews Against Assailants: Severe Riots in Country’s Colleges Continue (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The campus of the Hungarian college at Fuenfkirchen was transformed into a battlefield to day when the Jewish students, in defending their lives against the attacks of anti-Semitic students, erected barricades.
The anti-Semitic riots continued today in all the particular colleges in the country outside of Budapest, particullarly in Szegedin and in Fuenfkirchen. At the latter college twenty students, Jews and Christians, were injured when the anti-Semitic students stormed the barricade which was erected when the Jews were informed of the planned attack. When the barricade was taken in the storm of the anti-Semites, the Jewish students employed firearms, clearing the exits. Many Jewish girl students climbed to the college win dows, prepared to jump. Many of them fainted from fright.
Assistant professors in the science department and Christian girl students helped the Jewish students in their defense, until mounted police arrived to restore order.
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