The District Governor threatened today to disregard university autonomy and send police into Wilno University on the first repetition of anti-Jewish attacks which resulted Monday in injuries to 20 students.
Police surrounded the university outside the grounds while several hundred Jewish students occupied the Student Union home in a 24-hour strike protesting what they called the indifference of the authorities to anti-Jewish outbreaks.
The rector, meanwhile, closed the first year law faculty as a result of Monday’s disturbances.
The governor’s promise to send police into the university was made to Deputy Isaac Rubenstein. He visited the governor in connection with the recurrent anti-Jewish attacks.
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