Report Jews Attack Jewish Communists in Ukrainian Towns

Terroristic acts by Jews against Jewish Communists, were reported today from a number of small towns in the Ukraine. From Belilovka there was reported that during the night five local Jews attacked the house of the Jewish chairman of he Soviet tax department, dragging him into an isolated room, where they tied him up, using knives to quiet his cries. A decision to choke him was frustrated by the arrival of the Soviet secret police who arrested the assailants.

In Lutcherish the Jews have several ### attempted to shoot the Jewish chairman of the local Soviet, it is all leged. Several Jews in that town are under arrest for these attempts.

The “Emes,” Yiddish Communis daily, reports today that the opposition (Continued on Page 12)

to the Jewish Communists in the small towns is becoming serious. In some places, it claims, active Communist leaders were attacked and stabbed by “underworld leaders,” who the “Emes” charges were hired by local Jews who are dissatisfied with the taxes and repressions. The “Emes” says that “the resistance of the wealthy townsmen in the small towns is becoming stubborn and that therefore the restrictions against the Jewish nepmen and wealthy townsmen should be increased without mercy.”