Nazi students attacked Jewish students to-day at Vienna University, trying to drive them out of the University building. Two Rabbinical students named Mermelstein and Silber were also attacked in the Faculty of Philosophy.
A demonstration of German Nationalist students was held afterwards, at which twelve Jewish students were injured. Six of them are Jewish Nationalists and the other six Jewish Socialists.
The police intervened when an attempt was made to hold demonstrations in the streets, and when clashes seemed imminent, the police used the backs of their swords to break up the crowd.
The new disturbances are attributed to the dissatisfaction existing among the Nationlist students over the delay in Parliament in enacting the law recognising the principle of students’ rights. The delay, it is explained, is due to the intervention of the Catholic clergy, who are opposed to the suggested enactment of student rights on race-principles, objecting that Jews who are baptised cannot be classified as Jews. Cardinal Piffl, the Primate of Austria, has communicated this view to the Minister of Education, who is considering what steps can be taken to satisfy the objections of the Catholic clergy.
The Nazi students and the Nazi press are growing impatient, and the Nazi papers have come out to-day with a threat that if the promised law is not enacted immediately there will be a big anti-Jewish outbreak at the University, aiming to get all Jews ejected, or else to have a very rigorous numerus clausus enforced against them.
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