Mendel Lubinski, Jewish weaver of Bialystok, was mortally wounded today in the course of a vicious attack made upon Jewish factory workers by National Radical anti-Semites. “He was a victim of a party battle,” the police communique, issued after the attack, declared.
The attack upon Lubinski followed an election speech delivered before the Naras by the Polish priest Zaleski, whose address contained and inciting anti-Jewish propaganda.
Nara tactics have exasperated police officials charged with keeping order and has led to the arrest of many of the hooligans. Naras have now adopted a system of secret meetings in woods on the edges of large cities.
A meeting of this sort near Warsaw participated in by hundreds of Naras was raided by police, who arrested a large number, removing them to jail in Warsaw.
The Naras who succeeded in escaping hid in the woods and later carried out a mass attack against Jewish residents of near-by summer resorts. Women and children were severely beaten by them. Only when they attacked a group of Jewish workers were they beaten off.
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