That the police were in league with the Lithuanian Fascists who perpetrated attacks against the Jews last week, was learned here. The correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ascertained from a number of Jewish victims of the attack that when they approached policemen whom they knew for protection, they were informed by the latter that they had orders not to prevent a pogrom.
The promise of Prime Minister Waldemaras to the Jewish delegation to conduct an immediate investigation remains so far unfulfilled. A rigid censorship is maintained in the local press, which is forbidden to report any of the incidents connected with the excesses. Foreign newspapers reporting the matter have been confiscated. Physicians have been ordered by the authorities not to issue certificates to the injured.
The official Lithuanian news-agency has circulated a denial of the occurrence of anti-Jewish excesses, stating that the story is pure invention on the part of the Communists and its aim is to discredit the government.
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