(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Meyer Berkowitsch, a Jewish passenger on the Tilsit-Memel waterway, was thrown into the water by another passenger. Berkowitsch, who was a native of Neustadt, was drowned. He was 25 years old.
The culprit, who was arrested, could give no other reason for his act than the fact that the passenger was a Jew.
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