Anti-Jewish rioting continued unabated in many parts of Poland today, resulting in serious injuries to seventeen Jewish students, an aged rabbi, a Jewish alderman and two policemen.
An appeal by Cardinal Hlond of Poznan urging all Catholics to abstain from participation in the anti-Jewish rioting failed to stem the excesses. The cardinal, however, advised the public to continue the economic boycott against Jews.
The most serious clash of the day occurred at Lublani, near the city of Lwow, when a mob of peasants led by Nationalist (Endek) agitators attacked a group of Jewish students enroute from Lwow to the Polish Academy of Agriculture at Lublani.
The students put up a stiff resistance until arrival of police, two of whom were injured when the mob loosed a stone barrage. Seventeen students sustained injuries. The school was ordered closed indefinitely as a result of the riot.
A mob in the town of Nowo Wileyka, near Wilno, raided Jewish houses, smashing windows, and attacked Jews in the streets. The two injured were the aged Rabbi Eliakum Landman of Nowo Wileyka, and Enech Lewitan, Jewish alderman of Wilno. One of the hooligans was arrested.
For the second time in the past few days, a train traveling between Warsaw and Otwock was the scene of an attack upon Jewish passengers.
Meanwhile anti-Semites were given encouragement by the action of the Wilno court of Appeals in setting aside sentences of one to five years on Endek students who had been convicted of bombing synagogues and other Jewish institutions.
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