Troops were despatched to the township Deliatyn, Galicia, because of a continued anti-Jewish agitation in the vicinity.
The agitation arose over the removal of two crosses which were affixed by unknown persons to barracks where fourteen Jewish families are housed.
Peasants from neighboring villages, aroused by agitators, came to participate in an anti-Jewish demonstration in the town. The mayor defended the Jewish population in an address he made to the demonstrants. His resignation is now being demanded.
The Ukrainian peasants, who were urged to join the Polish peasants on the ground that the Jews had “violated the crucifix common to all Christians,” declined to move against their Jewish neighbors. They were neutral in the matter, they declared.
Because of the fear that the barracks might be set afire, a guard of Zionist youths was placed around the buildings.
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