Warsaw University was closed today on account of the continuing anti-Jewish student excesses, the Rector explaining in an official announcement that the situation has got out of hand and the authorities therefore see no other way of coping with it except to suspend the work of the University. For the present the University is closed for one day, in the hope that the students will see reason and will not renew the disturbances when the University is reopened. But if the troubles continue the authorities will not hesitate to close the University until it is possible to carry on its work without the accompaniment of fighting and violence.
Heated scenes took place to-day in the Senate, where during the discussion on the Education Budget, Senators belonging to the Government Party angrily accused the Senators of the National Democratic Party of responsibility for the student excesses in the University and the surrounding streets.
The “Express Poranny”, one of the papers of the Government Party, states to-day that since the New Year the Jews delivered up 15 Jewish corpses for dissection purposes, although on the percentage basis the Jews were required to provide only 12 corpses, so that the agitation worked up by the antisemitic students that the Jews are not supplying Jewish corpses for the work of the Jewish medical students is only a pretext.
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