The trial of the accused in connection with the anti-Jewish excesses in Salonica last July, which has been in progress for several days at Verria, will not be concluded to-day as was expected. The Public Prosecutor has not completed his closing speech, and will continue it to-morrow. It is unlikely therefore that the verdict will be handed down before Friday night.
The Public Prosecutor denounced in his speech to-day the Salonica Greek Nationalist paper “Makedonia”, for exciting the population by deliberately spreading lies about the Jews.
Dealing with the allegations that had been made in the paper about the Salonica Jewish sports organisation Maccabee being in league with the Macedonian insurrectionaries in Bulgaria who were seeking to detach Salonica from Greece, he said that the authorities know that the Maccabee is loyal to the State, and that no representative of this organisation took any part in the Bulgarian Congress of the Macedonian insurrectionaries.
As for the report in the “Makedonia” that Jews had attacked Christians before the disturbances had occurred in the Campbell Jewish quarter, he said, the police reports are all unanimous in declaring that the Jews were the first to be attacked.
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