Anti-Semitic disorders broke out today in several towns throughout Poland.
Rioting in the town of Truskolas near Czenstochwa, during which several scores of Jews were wounded, was spreading tonight. Arrests of eleven persons failed to check the disorders.
In Klobuck and Przebyk, Jewish houses were raided and windows smashed. Two Jews, Samuel and Berl Abramowicz, were injured.
Fear of riots prompted the authorities of Przytyk in the Opoczno district to ban the holding of market days for four weeks.
The action was taken as result of a campaign for boycotting Jewish-owned stalls which was being conducted by anti-Semitic nationalists. Pickets stationed before the Jewish stalls prevented peasants from entering.
A bomb thrown by an Endek, who was later apprehended, damaged the Jewish-owned Gerschuni drug store in Wilno. In Lodz, the glass-ware shop owned by Samuel Winter was completely demolished by a bomb explosion. The thrower escaped.
Several scores of Jews were beaten up yesterday in Truskolas in a riot that followed the spreading of a report that Jews had plundered a local Catholic church. Rioters resisted attempts to restore order, stoning the police.
Anti-Semites had circulated a rumor that the theft of various sacred objects from the church the previous night had been carried out by Jews to revenge the bombing of a synagogue last week.
Peasants from neighboring village arrived in the market place and beat up scores of Jews in their stalls, smashing the windows of all Jewish-owned houses and of a synagogue.
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