Widespread agitation against foreigners and their languages in Kattowitz, Silesia, is reported by the Wolf Agency, a Germany press service.
“Wolf” reports further that nationalists removed all signs in foreign languages, smashing window-panes where they could not otherwise remove or obliterate the lettering.
“Down with the German Jews”, is the text of a poster prominently disploayed throughout the city, the report continues.
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