The Iron Wolf, Lithuanian Fascist organization modelled after the Ku Klux Klan was dissolved by an order of the new Minister of the Interior, Musteiks, it is reported here from Kovno.
It was stated that the Iron Wolf which supported the Waldemaras government planned a march on Kovno, following the resignation of the Waldemaras cabinet for the purpose of declaring Lithuania a Fascist state in imitation of the Fascist march on Rome.
The Iron Wolf was said to have been responsible for the recent anti-Jewish excesses in Slobodka and the frequent attacks on the Jewish population in the provincial towns.
Mass arrests among the members of the Iron Wolf were ordered by the new government.
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