The Lwow Polytechnicum was closed down for an indefinite period today after the rector had rejected a demand of Nationalist students to segregate Jews in separate benches.
The Nationalist delegation refused to guarantee maintenance of order and the rector replied, “We shall not return to the twelfth century.”
Ber Weigman, 72-year-old Jew, was murdered here today. Police suspected that anti-Semitic Nationalists were responsible.
Dr. Alexander Reichman, mathematics lecturer at Warsaw University, was suspended subject to disciplinary action for writing a letter to the press criticizing the authorities for failing to maintain order at the university. The university has been the scene of anti-Semitic disorders recently.
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