Jewish organizations here are disturbed over the sudden appearance in streets and in mail-boxes of thousands of anti-Jewish leaflets apparently distributed by an organized group which is also sending its material through the mails. Local authorities have been asked to find the source of the anonymous literature in which the Jews of Canada are threatened with pogroms.
One of the leaflets exploits the recent report from Kiev which stated that the Russian army, upon liberating the city from the Germans, found that 80,000 Jews had been massacred there during the Nazi occupation. “Russia owes Germany eight million dollars for exterminating these Jews,” the leaflet reads. “To get rid of a Jew is worth a thousand dollars.”
Another leaflet contains the insinuation that the Jews are not joining the Canadian fighting forces. It alleges that the Canadians who have fallen on the battlefields in this war have all been Catholics and Protestants, but no Jews. The falsity of this charge has been proven by publication of official lists of casualties which contain many Jewish names.
At the same time that Jewish leaders here appealed to police officials, they communicated with postal authorities asking them to prevent the dissemination of the anti-Semitic leaflets through the mails.
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