LARGE DETACHMENTS OF POLICE TODAY PATROLLED THIS HOLIDAY RESORT’S GLASS AND DEBRIS STREWN STREETS FOLLOWING TWO DAYS OF SAVAGE ANTI-JEWISH DISORDERS PRECIPITATED BY THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A DRUNKEN POLISH LABORER DURING A FIGHT WITH A JEWISH RESTAURATEUR.
THE TOWN’S PRINCIPAL STREETS PRESENT SCENES OF DEVASTATION COMPARABLE ONLY TO THOSE IN LAST MAY’S POGROM AT BRZESC-LITEWSKI.
A SPECIAL J.T.A. CORRESPONDENT SENT HERE AND TO THE NEIGHBORING TOWN OF BIALA, TO WHICH THE DISORDERS SPREAD ON SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20, FOUND ALL JEWISH SHOPS BOARDED UP AND THE JEWISH POPULATION STILL IN A STATE OF PANIC. DESPITE PRESENCE OF POLICE, JEWS FEARED TO VENTURE ON THE STREETS.
JEWISH SHOPS AND HOMES WERE DEMOLISHED AND PILLAGED DURING THE TWO DAYS OF RIOTING ON MAY THIRD STREET, STATION STREET, PILSUDSKI STREET, JEGIALONSKA STREET AND NOVEMBER ELEVENTH STREET.
SEVERAL NON-JEWISH SHOPS ALSO WERE WRECKED BY THE RIOTERS, EVIDENTLY IN ERROR, BUT POLICE ARRESTED A NUMBER OF JEWISH YOUTHS ON SUSPICION OF HAVING ATTACKED THEM IN REPRISAL. ALL NON-JEWISH SHOPS NOW PROMINENTLY DISPLAY IN THEIR WINDOWS NOTICES BEARING THE LEGEND, “CHRISTIAN SHOP.”
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