TWO TEAR GAS BOMBS HURLED EARLY YESTERDAY BY A “MAN IN GREY” ROUTED MORE THAN 100 ZIONIST LEADERS FROM A CAFE NEAR THE CITY THEATRE, WHERE THE TWENTIETH BIENNIAL WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS IS ENTERING ITS FINAL STAGES.
AMONG THE ZIONISTS PAINFULLY AFFECTED BY THE ACRID FUMES OF THE BOMBS, THROWN SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, WAS MOSHE SHERTOK OF PALESTINE, MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST EXECUTIVE.
POLICE CIRCULATED A DESCRIPTION OF THE BOMB-THROWER AS A “MAN IN GREY,” BELIEVED NOT TO BE A SWISS CITIZEN. THEY CONFISCATED ANTI-SEMITIC LEAFLETS BEING DISTRIBUTED IN THE STREETS TODAY BY SWISS PRO-NAZIS.
POLICE COMMISSIONER FRUEH TOLD THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY TODAY THAT HE WAS INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITY THAT BOTH THE BOMB-THROWER AND THE BOMBS WERE OF FOREIGN ORIGIN. POLICE ARE MAKING A CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MISSILES TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY WERE MADE IN SWITZERLAND OR ANOTHER COUNTRY.
THE ZURICH POLICE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO PROTECT THE JEWISH VISITORS TO THE CITY, AND THE ENTIRE DETECTIVE FORCE HAS BEEN ON NIGHT DUTY FOR THE PAST WEEK, BUT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MEN IN THE DEPARTMENT TO GUARD EVERY CAFE AND RESTAURANT FREQUENTED BY THE ZIONIST DELEGATES.
THE “SWISS FREEDOM COMMITTEE” TODAY ISSUED A SHARP PROTEST AGAINST THE ATTACKS ON JEWS WHICH, IT DECLARED, “DESECRATE SWITZERLAND’S TRADITIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HOSPITALITY.”
MANY OF THE DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESS ARE SUGGESTING THAT THE FORTHCOMING SESSIONS OF THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE BE TRANSFERRED TO PARIS.
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