A report that the Jews of Puebla, a city in Mexico, 60 miles southeast of Mexico City, fear an anti-Semitic attack as the result of tirades against them in the papers is contained in the “Jewish Daily Forward” of yesterday in the form of a wire from Chicago where the “Chicago Forward” received the news in a letter, and is being investigated by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and by the Mexican Consul General in New York. At the request of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and by the Mexican Consul General in New York. At the request of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the Consul General here has wired the governor of Puebla and information is expected today.
The letter to the “Chicago Forward” says that the streets are covered with billboards that contain warnings to the population to buy nothing from the Jews who are accused of “destroying our churches and using the blood of our children for ritual purposes.” Mexican papers are also said to be publishing tirades against the Jews.
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