Reports from Warsaw that anti – Jewish riots have taken place in Leningrad and Moscow in a number of factories were termed exaggerated today by the Reuter News Agency. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent in Moscow was unable to confirm the reports.
The Daily Express, which carried the Warsaw reports exclusively from its correspondent, received no further information today. The editors of the paper, however, stated to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they uphold their report fully.
The report which The Daily Express carried stated that anti-Jewish fights took place in Soviet factories in Leningrad and in Moscow. The fights purportedly were in the spirit of anti-Jewish pogroms and flared up when the Russian workers accused their Jewish colleagues of being responsible for rebel plots against the existing Stalin regime.
This is for the first time under the Soviet government that anti-
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