Police removed a group of militant youths who invaded the local office of the pro-Moscow Israeli Communist Party Rakach yesterday but released them without preferring charges. The youngsters, among them a 17-year-old girl who arrived from Russia only four days ago, wore the uniform of Betar, a militant Zionist youth organization. Their demonstration coincided with the opening of the Soviet Communist Party Congress in Moscow yesterday. They carried placards reading “Let My People Go.” Other groups staged a torchlight demonstration in front of the Finnish Embassy last night to protest Soviet treatment of Jews. Finland represents Soviet interests in Israel. The demonstration appeared well organized and was peaceful. The crowd was addressed by Maj. Grischa Feigin, a recent emigre from Riga, who urged a continuing struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry. (Six Jewish students chained themselves to a Soviet Embassy fence in Brussels today to protest the treatment of Jews in the USSR. Police cut them loose. No arrests were reported. Forty Jewish students began a hunger strike in Antwerp, organized by Herut youth. The Union of Jewish Students sent a telegram to the chairman of the Belgian Communist Party demanding that the Belgian delegation to the Moscow Communist Party Congress intercede for the release of 38 Jews reportedly awarting trial in Leningrad and Riga.)
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