A great deal of anxiety has been caused among the Jewish population of Lemberg by an outcry among a section of the population that the death of a Polish boxer named Godlewski in the ring while fighting a Jewish boxer named Grosz in a boxing tournament between the Jewish sports club Hasmonea and the Polish sports club Pogon, was a deliberate act of a Jew killing a Christian and calling for revenge against the Jews.
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