(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A village barber named Bodnartchuk has been seatenced to two years imprisionment for delivering an anti-Semitic speech at a public meeting held in the village of Spalarovke in the Ukraine. While a member of the District Executive Committee was addressing the population, Bodnamchuk asked for permission to speak and delivered a viotent attack on the Jews. declaring that all the trouble was due to the Jews and the Jewish Government. He was prosecuted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. afterwards commuted to two years.
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