At Lyck, in East Prussia, a Jewish shopkeeper who was boycotted because he was a Jew, and found himself in such difficulties that he could not pay his way, committed suicide this week. At the funeral to-day a troop of Hitlerists came out and marched in front of the hearse carrying a sign with the inscription on it: “That is what will happen to all Jews”.
Attacks on Jews are reported to-day from several places in East Prussia. In Koenigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, a group of Hitlerists set upon eight young Jews belonging to the Bar Kochbah Jewish Sports organisation, while they were going through the Kaiser Strasse.
At Elbing, also in East Prussia, Jews were set upon in a public house by a group of Hitlerists who knocked the tankards out of their hands and beat them.
The leader of the Hitlerist organisation in Elbing, a certain Jakobus, broke the nose of a Jewish shopkeeper named Alfred Simonsohn. He was immediately brought before the Summary Court of Jurisdiction and has been sentenced to five months’ imprisonment.
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