Charges that the police took part in the anti-Jewish attacks in the Rummelplatz Market last Saturday, when twenty Jewish merchants were wounded, are contained in a strong note addressed to the Danzig Senate today by Dr. Casimir Papee, Polish High Commissioner in Danzig.
The note demands severest punishment of the rioters.
Charges that the Danzig police were implicated in the riot were also made the day after the Nazi attack by the owner of a large wholesale house, who claimed that he had officially notified the police that the riots were being planned and asked that precautionary measures be taken. But the police did nothing to prevent the outbreak, or to stop it, he said.
Several of the Jewish shops which were attacked are owned by Polish citizens.
The Danziger Echo, the only Jewish newspaper in the German language published in Danzig, was suspended by the authorities today for reporting the riots.
The Warsaw Hajnt, Polish Yiddish daily, was banned today for six months because it carried news and editorial comment about the riot.
Anti-Jewish agitation led by the Nazis, is continuing unabated throughout the city, and new outbreaks are feared.
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