Serious anti-Semitic excesses in the town of Suceava, Roumania, in connection with the recent local elections are reported in the Austrian press. A number of Jewish houses are said to have been burnt. Czernowitz papers just received confirm the news. The fire was the result of the Cuzist propaganda. The mayor received threats of death if he protected the Jews.
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