(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Forty-six votes of the Club of Jewish Deputies, consisting of representatives of the Jewish population in the Polish Sejm and Senate, were cast at the session of the Polish National Assembly on Monday in favor of Jozef Pilsudski, who was elected by a majority of 292 against 193 votes for Count Alfred Blinski, candidate of the National Democratic party. Sixty-one deputies, including representatives of the Ukrainians and White Russians, refrained from voting.
Forty-five minutes after the election, it became known that Marshal Pilsudski had refused to accept the presidency. In a letter addressed to M. Rataj, speaker of the Diet and acting president. Marshal Pilsudski stated that he did not have power enough when president before and now he has no confidence in the men who elected him again.
Many demonstrations took place in the Warsaw streets following the election of Pilsudski. The demonstrators demanded that Pilsudski withdraw his resignation, when it became known that he refused to accept the presidency.
On Tuesday morning at a second session of the National Assembly, Ignace Moscicki was elected president in accordance with the suggestion contained in Marshal Pilsudski’s letter of resignation. Moscicki is manager of the Chorzow Nitrogen Works. This choice was a complete surprise, Moscicki being a chemist who had never shown any interest in public life.
Lieutenant Hartmas, who is in charge of the military unit guarding the house of Marshal Pilsudski at Sulejowek near Warsaw, declared in an official statement, that unknown persons fred at the Marshals’ villa from four points. At the time of the attack the Marshal and his wife were not at the villa, but their daughters, Wanda and Jagusia were in the house. No one was hurt.
An attack on Apolynary Hartglass, president of the Club of Jewish Deputies, was made yesterday in the neighhorhood of the Sejm building, by two Jewish students, members of the Academic Association which belongs to the assimilationist group.
Gustav Leinwandhaendler and Joseph Leisermann, the students who attacked Deputy Hartglass, were arrested. The attack was said to have been made in revenge of an article by Deputy Hartglass, criticizing the academic association for expressing sympathy with the former Minister of Education Stanislaw Grabski.
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