The general feeling here to-day is that the situation is quietening down. The authorities have acted in the last few days with a great deal of energy, and have shown the student rioters that there is no intention of capitulating to their violence.
The police guards in the vicinity of the University have been strengthened, so that they should be able to deal effectively with any fresh attempts at disorder. Jewish students who were leaving the Commercial Academy to-day were attacked by National Democratic students, but the police guards drove off the assailants, and escorted the Jewish students safely to their homes. Several National Democratic students who kept following them were arrested.
Because of the attack, the Commercial Academy has now been closed down. The National Democratic students at the Dental Institute went to-day to the Director of the Institute, Dr. Czubalski, to demand the expulsion of all Jews from the Institute. The Director told them that their demand could not be considered, and when the students threatened to start disturbances he had the Institutes closed down. All the five schools of the University are now closed, and the authorities declare that they will not be reopened until the students have shown that they intend to keep order.
A number of National Democratic students who have been under arrest were released to-day and handed over to the Rector of the University to be dealt with.
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