Punishment of those guilty of creating and participating in the disturbances of the past ten days in Poland, in which more than 400 Jews were injured; payment of damages to the victims, and guarantees that the anti-Semitic riots would not be permitted to recur, were demanded yesterday by the Club of Jewish Deputies in a lengthy interpellation submitted to the Sejm.
The interpellation gives a detailed description of the riots which began in Lwow late on November 26th and which have continued since, following the death of Jan Grotkowski, a Polish student who succumbed to knife wounds received after he and five companions, returning drunk from an all night revel, attacked Jewish passersby.
After fixing responsibility for the riots upon the Police Department and the District Governor of Lwow on the ground that the latter was warned of their imminence a fortnight before they occurred and that the former abetted the attackers during the riots, the interpel-
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